Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . TT. should demand security, did I not know that treason seldomdwells with courage. 9° i8. The crusader felt that the confidence of the Moslem madehim ashamed of his own doubts. By the cross of my sword, he said, laying his hand on theweapon as he spoke, I will be true companion to thee, Saracen,while our fortune wills that we remain in company together. 19s By Mohammed, Prophe
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . TT. should demand security, did I not know that treason seldomdwells with courage. 9° i8. The crusader felt that the confidence of the Moslem madehim ashamed of his own doubts. By the cross of my sword, he said, laying his hand on theweapon as he spoke, I will be true companion to thee, Saracen,while our fortune wills that we remain in company together. 19s By Mohammed, Prophet of God, and by Allah, God of theProphet, replied his late foeman, there is not treachery in myheart towards thee. And now wend we to yonder fountain, forthe hour of rest is at hand, and the stream had hardly touchedmy lip when I was called to battle by thy approach. 200 19. The Knight of the Couchant Leopard yielded a ready andcourteous assent; and the late foes, without an angry look orgesture of doubt, rode side by side to the little cluster of palm-trees. Literary ANALYSis.^201-204. In tlie last paragraph which words are ofAnglo-Saxon, and which of classical, XX. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. ^ p. ^cUy ul^o^A/ CHARACTERIZATION BY CRAIK. I. Coleridges poetry is remarkable for the perfection of itsexecution, for the exquisite art with which its divine spirit is en-dowed with formal expression. The subtly woven words, with From English Language and Literature, by G. L. Craik, , vol. ii., et seq. 314 COLERIDGE. all their sky colors, seem to grow out of the thought or emo-tion, as the flower from its stalk, or the flame from its feed-ing oil. The music of his verse, too, especially of what he haswritten in rhyme, is as sweet and as characteristic as anythingin the language, placing him for that rare excellence in thesame small band with Shakespeare, and Beaumont and Fletcher(in their lyrics), and Milton, and Collins, and Shelley, and Ten-nyson. 2. It
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