Marshalin Redwood ENGL207 16th December 2014 Final Essay: Revising & Relating to the World Literature Shakespearean Lingua As the world flourishes, the use of words changes. The English language originated from Anglo- Frisian dialect that was brought to Britain by Germanic marauders. Dialects are an opportunistic approach of understanding about the backdrop of the English language. Shakespeare gained the comprehensive knowledge and passion for the literature. Shakespeare was known
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hear, “Sir, I do love you more than words can wield the matter/ Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty/ Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare/ No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour…” (I.i.54-61). It is evident that Goneril shows little respect towards her father, addressing him as ‘sir’ as opposed to the respectable ‘my lord’. Cordelia addresses her father with the utmost respect and his best interests in mind, “Good my lord/ You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I/ Return those
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Where Sin Increased, Grace Overflowed October 31 marks an important day in the history of the church — a day on which a monk deeply impacted by his close study of Psalms and Romans was propelled into the center of a revival of Christ-centered joy. So, before you stock the candy bowl and prepare to welcome people to your home this Halloween, consider a biblical reality that fundamentally shaped the life of Martin Luther and the course of the Reformation. Luther understood perhaps better than anyone
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creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak'st waste in
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[pic] Hvordan opfatter englang sig selv I denne sang: - Et land der ikke kan besejres. - Et mægtigt land der er over andre lande. - De vil ikke underkaste af andre lande - De dominere havet - Et guddommeligt land opsteget af havet - De er velsignet, og gud er på deres side. - Det er til fordel for alle at England bliver større. Hvilke ism’er er der i denne sang: - Nationalisme, egoisme(chauvinisme), imperialisme, Eurocentrisme (tanken om at Europa er overlegen)
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Author: Charles Lamb [More Titles by Lamb] I like to meet a sweep--understand me--not a grown sweeper--old chimney-sweepers are by no means attractive--but one of those tender novices, blooming through their first nigritude, the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek--such as come forth with the dawn, or somewhat earlier, with their little professional notes sounding like the _peep peep_ of a young sparrow; or liker to the matin lark should I pronounce them, in their aerial ascents not
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and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Dear Family: The bible declared that Behold I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: I must say without notice..I had a choice whether to remain down here in this land of discomfort or whether to receive my transition in a Land that begins a NEW LIFE for me….Family at this time I do apologize But as God (with his gracious and good self) extended his “UNMISTAKEN” hands
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which holds the stage as the play opens, lacks an individual identity but nevertheless constitutes one of the most important "characters" in the story. * They have taken up arms, true, but not without cause: As one of them puts it, "the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not thirst for revenge (I.i.22-23)." * Menenius does makes an attempt at a response, with his story about the stomach and the body. His behavior toward the plebeians contrasts starkly with Martius's--the common people
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foes? Then do not thou, my son, at pleasure's beck, dethrone thy reason for a woman's sake; knowing that this is a joy that soon grows cold in clasping arms--an evil woman to share thy bed and thy home. For what wound could strike deeper than a false friend? Nay, with loathing, and as if she were thine enemy, let this girl go to find a husband in the house of Hades. For since I have taken her, alone of all the city, in open disobedience, I will not make myself a liar to my people--I will slay her. So
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To Autumn The poem To Autumn by John Keats is a simple poem that describes the stages of fall. The poem is personification of autumn. The poem is a personification of autumn to better display what autumn is. In the first stanza of the poem autumn is personified as the force that ripening and maturing the crop allowing them to grow and mature. For example the 4th to the 7th verse is With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees
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