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... Poems ( omitting Comus ) ; Paradise Lost , I - IV ; Areopagitica . Dryden . Absalom and Achitophel , Part I. Addison . Selections , iv . v . vi . ( Clarendon Press Series ) . Pope . Essay on Man . Johnson . Lives of Milton , Dryden ...
... Poems ( omitting Comus ) ; Paradise Lost , I - IV ; Areopagitica . Dryden . Absalom and Achitophel , Part I. Addison . Selections , iv . v . vi . ( Clarendon Press Series ) . Pope . Essay on Man . Johnson . Lives of Milton , Dryden ...
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... poem . 4. Sketch the story and plan of William's Vision con- cerning Piers the Plowman . Enumerate the Seven Deadly Sins as named in this poem , adding any hints as to their personal appearance which the poet gives us . 5. Give an ...
... poem . 4. Sketch the story and plan of William's Vision con- cerning Piers the Plowman . Enumerate the Seven Deadly Sins as named in this poem , adding any hints as to their personal appearance which the poet gives us . 5. Give an ...
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... poems do the passages occur ? 8. Explain fully the meanings and allusions of the following , stating the context where you can : — ( 1 ) In termes had he caas and domes alle . ( 2 ) His purchace was bettur than his rente . And rage he ...
... poems do the passages occur ? 8. Explain fully the meanings and allusions of the following , stating the context where you can : — ( 1 ) In termes had he caas and domes alle . ( 2 ) His purchace was bettur than his rente . And rage he ...
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... poem itself that this is likely to have been true of Una , Duessa , the Red - Cross Knight , Orgoglio , the Lion and Prince Arthur . Give an account of the several appearances of the last in the action of the first two books . 9 ...
... poem itself that this is likely to have been true of Una , Duessa , the Red - Cross Knight , Orgoglio , the Lion and Prince Arthur . Give an account of the several appearances of the last in the action of the first two books . 9 ...
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... poetic and artistic merit , the design and execution of the second with those of the first book . 6 12. Can you account for the name Spenser gave the poem ? Shew , and , if possible , illustrate the sense of the following : - ( 1 ) A ...
... poetic and artistic merit , the design and execution of the second with those of the first book . 6 12. Can you account for the name Spenser gave the poem ? Shew , and , if possible , illustrate the sense of the following : - ( 1 ) A ...
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Page 20 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Page 22 - NATUR UND KUNST sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, Und haben sich, eh man es denkt, gefunden; Der Widerwille ist auch mir verschwunden, Und beide scheinen gleich mich anzuziehen. Es gilt wohl nur ein redliches Bemühen! Und wenn wir erst in abgemeßnen Stunden Mit Geist und Fleiß uns an die Kunst gebunden, Mag frei Natur im Herzen wieder glühen.
Page 75 - Mercy bids thee go. For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of human tears, That shall no longer flow. What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day : For all those trophied arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Healed not a passion or a pang Entailed on human hearts.
Page 62 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 43 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 24 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts, the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square on the line between the points of section, is equal to the square on half the line.
Page 50 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 50 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 61 - Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
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