An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 sidor |
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... kind of respect . The loving way in which he taught literature , in itself , opened many a man's eyes . As has been well said , " he taught his students to think while feeling , and to feel while thinking , and he taught them to love ...
... kind of respect . The loving way in which he taught literature , in itself , opened many a man's eyes . As has been well said , " he taught his students to think while feeling , and to feel while thinking , and he taught them to love ...
Sida xiv
... kind of relaxation , but I am old - fashioned and wise enough to know that good teaching draws a very sharp line between work and play . Besides , the teaching of most literature is inextricably complicated by an element which lurks in ...
... kind of relaxation , but I am old - fashioned and wise enough to know that good teaching draws a very sharp line between work and play . Besides , the teaching of most literature is inextricably complicated by an element which lurks in ...
Sida xv
... kind in proving that the Odyssey was written by a girl , as though that mattered ; another that Dante's Beatrice was a species of theology ; another that Shakespeare wrote the Sonnets for fun or hire . A good many have wasted time ...
... kind in proving that the Odyssey was written by a girl , as though that mattered ; another that Dante's Beatrice was a species of theology ; another that Shakespeare wrote the Sonnets for fun or hire . A good many have wasted time ...
Sida 23
... kind encouragement the world might have never seen the great epic of the age , Edmund Spenser's Faery Queen . He had the silver tongue of the orator , and in his History of the World there are passages of deep and moving eloquence , so ...
... kind encouragement the world might have never seen the great epic of the age , Edmund Spenser's Faery Queen . He had the silver tongue of the orator , and in his History of the World there are passages of deep and moving eloquence , so ...
Sida 26
... kind of squint , and a stubble of beard about mouth and chin . That was Sir Francis Drake , Vice - Admiral of the Fleet . The world knew who Drake was . It was seventeen years before , when he was only twenty - four years old , that he ...
... kind of squint , and a stubble of beard about mouth and chin . That was Sir Francis Drake , Vice - Admiral of the Fleet . The world knew who Drake was . It was seventeen years before , when he was only twenty - four years old , that he ...
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Sida 106 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that...
Sida 47 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Sida 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Sida 39 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Sida 110 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Sida 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Sida 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Sida 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Sida 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Sida 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.