A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongmans&Company, 1873 - 567 páginas |
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... mind , working with scanty materials , imper- fect tools , and under adverse circumstances , which , like stars scattered over a dark portion of the sky , stud the dreary period that intervenes between the break - up of the ancient ...
... mind , working with scanty materials , imper- fect tools , and under adverse circumstances , which , like stars scattered over a dark portion of the sky , stud the dreary period that intervenes between the break - up of the ancient ...
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... mind was ever labouring , so far as intestine war and Danish inroad would allow , and executed a very creditable amount of work . Its chief successes , it is true , were obtained through the medium of the Latin , then and long after the ...
... mind was ever labouring , so far as intestine war and Danish inroad would allow , and executed a very creditable amount of work . Its chief successes , it is true , were obtained through the medium of the Latin , then and long after the ...
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... mind which ensued upon the consolidation of society following the long troubled night of the dark ages . Something must there- fore be said about the origin of that movement , about the course it took , and about the great thinkers ...
... mind which ensued upon the consolidation of society following the long troubled night of the dark ages . Something must there- fore be said about the origin of that movement , about the course it took , and about the great thinkers ...
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... mind , as exemplified especially in Aristotle and Plato , by Syrian Nestorians ( whose forefathers , fleeing from perse- cution into Persia after the council of Chalcedon , carried with them Syriac versions of the chief works of the ...
... mind , as exemplified especially in Aristotle and Plato , by Syrian Nestorians ( whose forefathers , fleeing from perse- cution into Persia after the council of Chalcedon , carried with them Syriac versions of the chief works of the ...
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... mind to the contemplation of the Deity , and seeking to understand what he believes . ' Yet we may be certain that St. Anselm himself , like all the saints , derived the certainty of his religious convictions through the will rather ...
... mind to the contemplation of the Deity , and seeking to understand what he believes . ' Yet we may be certain that St. Anselm himself , like all the saints , derived the certainty of his religious convictions through the will rather ...
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Página 482 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Página 511 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 253 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 357 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 469 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may...
Página 476 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 211 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 387 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Página 454 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 444 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?