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... from which he could not get free . A struggle began , and at last Grendel tore himself away , leaving his arm in Beowulf's hand . There was feasting and joy that night in Hrothgar's hall KELTIC AND FIRST ENGLISH LITERAture . 7.
... from which he could not get free . A struggle began , and at last Grendel tore himself away , leaving his arm in Beowulf's hand . There was feasting and joy that night in Hrothgar's hall KELTIC AND FIRST ENGLISH LITERAture . 7.
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... all things , " answered the person . Then Cadmon began to sing , and the verses came to him in his dream , and he sang a song of praise to God , the Creator of all things . When Cędmon awoke , ΤΟ THE STORY OF ENGLISH Literature .
... all things , " answered the person . Then Cadmon began to sing , and the verses came to him in his dream , and he sang a song of praise to God , the Creator of all things . When Cędmon awoke , ΤΟ THE STORY OF ENGLISH Literature .
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... began to repeat where he had commenced , and we , hearing it , mourned with him . By turns we read , and by turns we wept , nay we wept always while we read . During these days he laboured to compose two works well worthy to be ...
... began to repeat where he had commenced , and we , hearing it , mourned with him . By turns we read , and by turns we wept , nay we wept always while we read . During these days he laboured to compose two works well worthy to be ...
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... began to form a part of it , and that it has a past full of interest for us , because it is the story of England's childhood and growth C 2 CHAPTER II ROMANCES AND CHRONICLES (1066-1300) CHAPTER II ROMANCES AND CHRONICLES (1066-1300)
... began to form a part of it , and that it has a past full of interest for us , because it is the story of England's childhood and growth C 2 CHAPTER II ROMANCES AND CHRONICLES (1066-1300) CHAPTER II ROMANCES AND CHRONICLES (1066-1300)
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... began to run into the larger , and for a while discoloured its waters , but in the end became lost in it , only adding to the depth and width of the great stream . At the time when Norman - French and First English were both spoken as ...
... began to run into the larger , and for a while discoloured its waters , but in the end became lost in it , only adding to the depth and width of the great stream . At the time when Norman - French and First English were both spoken as ...
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Page 247 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 242 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at' the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 246 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 287 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 218 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 432 - How small, of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Page 342 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.
Page 484 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 247 - Weep no more, woeful Shepherds, weep no more ! For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor : So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 163 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.