Development of English Literature and Language, Volumes 1-2S.C. Griggs, 1882 - English language |
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... earth was found Nor heaven above ; One chaos all , And nowhere grass . ' Fallen asleep , from his arm - pits spring the frost - giants . cow , born also of melting snow , feeds him with four milk - rivers . Whilst licking his ...
... earth was found Nor heaven above ; One chaos all , And nowhere grass . ' Fallen asleep , from his arm - pits spring the frost - giants . cow , born also of melting snow , feeds him with four milk - rivers . Whilst licking his ...
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... earth and crystal vault , sink into the bottomless , many - sounding sea . But the end is also the beginning . There comes a new day , and a new heaven without rent or seam , - that is , the regenera- tion . There is no loss of souls ...
... earth and crystal vault , sink into the bottomless , many - sounding sea . But the end is also the beginning . There comes a new day , and a new heaven without rent or seam , - that is , the regenera- tion . There is no loss of souls ...
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... earth - dwelling ; I am quite wearied out . Dim are the dells , high up are the mountains , a bitter city of twigs , with briars overgrown , a joyless abode . My friends are in the earth ; those loved in life , - the tomb holds them ...
... earth - dwelling ; I am quite wearied out . Dim are the dells , high up are the mountains , a bitter city of twigs , with briars overgrown , a joyless abode . My friends are in the earth ; those loved in life , - the tomb holds them ...
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... earth with orient pearl . ' With rosy fingers unbarred the gates of light . ' Each purple peak , each flinty spire , Was bathed in floods of living fire . ' ' A dazzling deluge reigns . ' The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the ...
... earth with orient pearl . ' With rosy fingers unbarred the gates of light . ' Each purple peak , each flinty spire , Was bathed in floods of living fire . ' ' A dazzling deluge reigns . ' The western waves of ebbing day Roll'd o'er the ...
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... earth , as well as its main products , are Saxon , — plough , share , rake , scythe , harrow , sickle , spade , wheat , rye , oats , grass , hay , flax . Thus are words , when we remove the veil which custom and familiarity have thrown ...
... earth , as well as its main products , are Saxon , — plough , share , rake , scythe , harrow , sickle , spade , wheat , rye , oats , grass , hay , flax . Thus are words , when we remove the veil which custom and familiarity have thrown ...
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Page 460 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 370 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 360 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 40 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 444 - 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 268 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 360 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 372 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 362 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 333 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move, To come to thee and be thy love.