The College Survey of English Literature: The early period. The sixteenth century. The seventeenth century. The eighteenth centuryBartlett Jere Whiting, Fred Benjamin Millett Harcourt, Brace, 1947 |
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... Nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when living death descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? " No , " ( ' tis replied ) , " the first Almighty Cause ...
... Nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when living death descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? " No , " ( ' tis replied ) , " the first Almighty Cause ...
Page 883
... Nature its mother , Habit is its nurse ; Wit , Spirit , Faculties , but make it worse ; Reason itself but gives it edge and power , As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sour . We , wretched subjects though to lawful sway , In this ...
... Nature its mother , Habit is its nurse ; Wit , Spirit , Faculties , but make it worse ; Reason itself but gives it edge and power , As Heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sour . We , wretched subjects though to lawful sway , In this ...
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... nature to nature's God , " and the opinion was sometimes advanced that in the contemplation or study of nature one is really engaged in divine worship . Although James Thomson was not himself an avowed Deist , one sees in the present ...
... nature to nature's God , " and the opinion was sometimes advanced that in the contemplation or study of nature one is really engaged in divine worship . Although James Thomson was not himself an avowed Deist , one sees in the present ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
BEOWULF | 11 |
Copyright | |
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