A history of English literature for junior classesWilliam Collins, 1881 - 253 էջ |
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... LATIN PRIMER , Fcap . 8vo , cloth , LATIN RUDIMENTS , with Copious Exercises , 12mo , cloth , · 2 6 1 0 0 3 1 6 1 0 09 0 3 03 09 2 1 LATIN DELECTUS , with Explanatory Notes and Vocabulary , 12mo , 2 CESAR , with Imitative Exercises ...
... LATIN PRIMER , Fcap . 8vo , cloth , LATIN RUDIMENTS , with Copious Exercises , 12mo , cloth , · 2 6 1 0 0 3 1 6 1 0 09 0 3 03 09 2 1 LATIN DELECTUS , with Explanatory Notes and Vocabulary , 12mo , 2 CESAR , with Imitative Exercises ...
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... Latin from the very few books which were then to be had ; for every book was written with a pen , from beginning to end by the monks themselves , and he was a rich man who could boast of a library of a dozen THE ANGLO - SAXON PERIOD ...
... Latin from the very few books which were then to be had ; for every book was written with a pen , from beginning to end by the monks themselves , and he was a rich man who could boast of a library of a dozen THE ANGLO - SAXON PERIOD ...
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... Latin , and taught their native pupils to read and write that language . Nearly all the early works belonging to the literature of this country are Latin books . In the monastery of Wearmouth ( Durhamshire ) a boy , named BEDE , was ...
... Latin , and taught their native pupils to read and write that language . Nearly all the early works belonging to the literature of this country are Latin books . In the monastery of Wearmouth ( Durhamshire ) a boy , named BEDE , was ...
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... Latin- -a Roman dialect ; hence the works so written were called Romances . There were also learned men who wrote on learned subjects . They still kept by the Latin tongue . Thus , when William came to England he brought with him ...
... Latin- -a Roman dialect ; hence the works so written were called Romances . There were also learned men who wrote on learned subjects . They still kept by the Latin tongue . Thus , when William came to England he brought with him ...
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... Latin nor French , For to have solace and delight When they sit together in fellowship . Even in the small quotations given above , it will be seen that French had little to do with the new language . The speech of the Normans may have ...
... Latin nor French , For to have solace and delight When they sit together in fellowship . Even in the small quotations given above , it will be seen that French had little to do with the new language . The speech of the Normans may have ...
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Էջ 50 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds...
Էջ 92 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Էջ 107 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Էջ 48 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Էջ 147 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Էջ 186 - Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Էջ 49 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Էջ 27 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Էջ 53 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
Էջ 69 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...