Studies in Language, Literature and Criticism1917 |
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Arcite Arthur Astrolabe astrology astronomy ballad Beowulf boundaries were defined Burlington called celestial equator celestial sphere characters Chaucer Cherry Cherry county Chicago City comedy county seat county was named creek Criseyde Cuchulainn Custer dance daughter Dickens early settler earth English former post office harp harper hath heavens hero Holt Ibid Indian inland post office inland village John king King Estmere knight lady Lancaster land Lincoln located lord LOUISE POUND Mabinogion Mars mediaeval minstrels minstrelsy mone moon motion named in honor named the town Nebraska office was established office was named Omaha originally named Palamon Parlement of Foules Phebus planets Platte platted play poetry post office postmaster precinct probably named Ptolemy Quincy railroad reference river Saturn says Scotts Bluff shal Sioux sonne stars station sterres suggested Tale thou town was named Town-Site Company Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Union Pacific railroad Valley Venus vicinity whan word
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Page 18 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 19 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Page 19 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Page 2 - ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 19 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Page 70 - Primary chief bard am I to Elphin, And my original country is the region of the summer stars; Idno and Heinin called me Merddin, At length every king will call me Taliesin. I was with my Lord in the highest sphere, On the fall of Lucifer into the depth of hell...
Page 55 - Before we came to it, we heard a strange shouting, And all that were in it lookd madly; For some were a bull-back, some dancing a morris, And some singing Arthur-a-Bradly.
Page 30 - O ben than cam now Sweet Willie, Saying, " Bride, will ye dance wi' me ? * " Aye, by my sooth, and that I will, Gin my back should break in three.
Page 40 - Then Little John took the bishop's cloak, And spread it upon the ground, And out of the bishop's portmantua He told three hundred pound. ' Here's money enough, master,' said Little John, ' And a comely sight 'tis to see ; It makes me in charity with the bishop, Though he heartily loveth not me.
Page 22 - And the youth pricked forth upon a steed with head dappled grey, of four winters old, firm of limb, with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold on his head, and upon him a saddle of costly gold. And in the youth's hand were two spears of silver, sharp, well-tempered, headed with steel, three ells in length, of an edge to wound the wind, and cause blood to flow, and swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth when the dew of June is at the heaviest.