The Warner Library, Volume 2Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 - Literature |
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Page 669
... become the poet of the house and the palace . Like those troubadours who had become jongleurs , they lived upon the crumbs which fell from the table of princes . Such crumbs were often not to be despised . Many a time and oft the bard ...
... become the poet of the house and the palace . Like those troubadours who had become jongleurs , they lived upon the crumbs which fell from the table of princes . Such crumbs were often not to be despised . Many a time and oft the bard ...
Page 673
... becomes an ascetic , thus to atone in a measure for his past sins . The whole might be called , not improperly , a tale , a novel . But the intention of the poet is to show forth the richness and variety of the Arabic lan- guage ; and ...
... becomes an ascetic , thus to atone in a measure for his past sins . The whole might be called , not improperly , a tale , a novel . But the intention of the poet is to show forth the richness and variety of the Arabic lan- guage ; and ...
Page 695
... become red as a rose , and shall melt like ointment : ( Which , therefore , of your LORD'S benefits will ye ungratefully deny ? ) On that day neither man nor genius shall be asked concerning his sin . Which , therefore , of your LORD'S ...
... become red as a rose , and shall melt like ointment : ( Which , therefore , of your LORD'S benefits will ye ungratefully deny ? ) On that day neither man nor genius shall be asked concerning his sin . Which , therefore , of your LORD'S ...
Page 697
... for us this our desire , And put us in possession of this our earnest wish , And exclude us not from thy ample shade , Nor leave us to become the prey of the devourer : For we stretch to thee the hand of entreaty , ARABIC LITERATURE 691.
... for us this our desire , And put us in possession of this our earnest wish , And exclude us not from thy ample shade , Nor leave us to become the prey of the devourer : For we stretch to thee the hand of entreaty , ARABIC LITERATURE 691.
Page 709
... become the lawgiver of worlds ; whose name is to be ineffaceably inscribed on the frontispiece of an immortal code ; who can exclaim in dithyrambic language , " The die is cast : I have written my book ; it will be read either in the ...
... become the lawgiver of worlds ; whose name is to be ineffaceably inscribed on the frontispiece of an immortal code ; who can exclaim in dithyrambic language , " The die is cast : I have written my book ; it will be read either in the ...
Common terms and phrases
Acharnians Arabic Aristophanes Aristotle Arnold Arthurian legend Aucassin Averroës Avesta beautiful benefits will ye bird body called century comedy cried dead dear death Dubricius earth English Euripides eyes fair faith father feel Fourchambault friends Gaston Paris genius German German's fatherland hand Haoma hast hath heard heart heaven holy honor horse intellectual intelligence King Arthur land Laplace Layamon learned light literary literature live look Lord LORD'S benefits LUDOVICO ARIOSTO Marcus Aurelius matter Medoro mind nature never Nicolette night noble o'er Orlando Orlando Furioso passed philosopher Phosphorists poem poet poetic poetry praise prose Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Mordred smelling-salts song soul speak spirit sweet sword tell thee things thought took Translation unto verse voice Walpurga wife word Yasna ye ungratefully deny young youth Yudhisthira
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Page 1165 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 877 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 1166 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Page 877 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 1173 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 1176 - ... in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, 'That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Page 987 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Page 1174 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.
Page 1168 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 1171 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.