Masterpieces in English Literature, and Lessons in the English Language: With a Brief Statement of the Genealogy of the English Language, Biographical Sketches, Explanatory NotesHomer Baxter Sprague |
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... poet , John Gower , whom he afterwards calls " Moral Gower , " his attorney and legal representative dur- ing his absence . Gower , in his poem entitled Confessio Amantis , makes Venus say , " And greet well Chaucer when ye meet , As my ...
... poet , John Gower , whom he afterwards calls " Moral Gower , " his attorney and legal representative dur- ing his absence . Gower , in his poem entitled Confessio Amantis , makes Venus say , " And greet well Chaucer when ye meet , As my ...
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... Poets , etc. Let the student cull from these and other sources additional facts in regard to Chaucer . 1 . 2 . 3 . THE CLERK'S TALE . There is , right at the west side of Itaille , * Down at the root of Vesulus the cold , A lusty plain ...
... Poets , etc. Let the student cull from these and other sources additional facts in regard to Chaucer . 1 . 2 . 3 . THE CLERK'S TALE . There is , right at the west side of Itaille , * Down at the root of Vesulus the cold , A lusty plain ...
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... poetic , or imitative . E. g . his , siss , whisper , whistle . As a rule , it is disagreeable ; though here we have a palpable exception ! S at the beginning of some words is supposed to have a demonstrative force ; as in so , she ...
... poetic , or imitative . E. g . his , siss , whisper , whistle . As a rule , it is disagreeable ; though here we have a palpable exception ! S at the beginning of some words is supposed to have a demonstrative force ; as in so , she ...
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... poetic ; as owl , howl , bow - wow . Ough , as an interjection , expresses sudden pain . She riseth up abashed from her trance . The sound of sh final , as in abash , is said to denote silence ; also sounds and sights which end suddenly ...
... poetic ; as owl , howl , bow - wow . Ough , as an interjection , expresses sudden pain . She riseth up abashed from her trance . The sound of sh final , as in abash , is said to denote silence ; also sounds and sights which end suddenly ...
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... poetic , or imitative . E. g . , song , gong , ding - dong . Sometimes it seems to express energetic motion ; as in fling , bring , swing , hang , slang , bang , mangle . Other examples ? 161 . 162 . 163 . 164 . 165 . 56 MASTERPIECES IN ...
... poetic , or imitative . E. g . , song , gong , ding - dong . Sometimes it seems to express energetic motion ; as in fling , bring , swing , hang , slang , bang , mangle . Other examples ? 161 . 162 . 163 . 164 . 165 . 56 MASTERPIECES IN ...
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Masterpieces in English Literature and Lessons in the English Language Homer B. Sprague No preview available - 1878 |
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Page 121 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 124 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Page 93 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 143 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 205 - ... teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 236 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 93 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 177 - And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee. MACDUFF. Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o...
Page 124 - Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?
Page 234 - Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation; others as fast...