Studies in Literature, Band 1The University Press, 1918 - 310 Seiten |
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... courses : " a month they were in Lebanon and two months at home , and Adoni- ram was over the levy " ? The conditions , you see , must have been hard , as the corvée was enormous . What truth , if any , underlies the legend that when ...
... courses : " a month they were in Lebanon and two months at home , and Adoni- ram was over the levy " ? The conditions , you see , must have been hard , as the corvée was enormous . What truth , if any , underlies the legend that when ...
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... course I might multiply them by the hundred — I wish , first of all , to impress on you that they are of first importance if you would understand history ; by which I mean , if you would take hold , in imagination , of the human motives ...
... course I might multiply them by the hundred — I wish , first of all , to impress on you that they are of first importance if you would understand history ; by which I mean , if you would take hold , in imagination , of the human motives ...
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... course , to believe that Troy was besieged for ten years for the sake of a woman , as it is pleasant to read in Homer of Helen watching the battlefield from the tower above the Skaian gates , while the old men of the city marvel at her ...
... course , to believe that Troy was besieged for ten years for the sake of a woman , as it is pleasant to read in Homer of Helen watching the battlefield from the tower above the Skaian gates , while the old men of the city marvel at her ...
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... course . Nor , to my mind , does Professor Kittredge make a very shrewd point when he says Such ballads as have been recovered from oral tradition in recent times ( and these . . . comprise the vast majority of our texts ) have not ...
... course . Nor , to my mind , does Professor Kittredge make a very shrewd point when he says Such ballads as have been recovered from oral tradition in recent times ( and these . . . comprise the vast majority of our texts ) have not ...
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... course all the many ballads of Border fights and forays from Otterburn and Chevy Chase to such things as Kinmont Willie , Hobbie Noble , Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead come from this region . But these are not the very best ; and the ...
... course all the many ballads of Border fights and forays from Otterburn and Chevy Chase to such things as Kinmont Willie , Hobbie Noble , Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead come from this region . But these are not the very best ; and the ...
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Seite 161 - I will rise now, and go about the city In the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought him, but I found him not.
Seite 154 - The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold: the gates were at first the end of the world.
Seite 95 - ROSE AYLMER AH, WHAT avails the sceptred race! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue, every grace ! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
Seite 294 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My Sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it. My Marks and Scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought his Battles who now will be my Rewarder. When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the Riverside, into which as he went he said, Death, where is thy Sting?
Seite 228 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Seite 3 - O'er the blue Midland waters with the gale, Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily To where the Atlantic raves Outside the Western Straits, and unbent sails There, where down cloudy cliffs, through sheets of foam, Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come ; And on the beach undid his corded bales.
Seite 154 - And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty ! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die ; but all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.
Seite 223 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull.
Seite 129 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Seite 147 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...