A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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... mediæval romance , and in another , a great novel in verse . The story is almost entirely a mediæval creation , though it was generally accepted as part of the great Trojan cycle . We hear something in the poem of Hector and Achilles ...
... mediæval romance , and in another , a great novel in verse . The story is almost entirely a mediæval creation , though it was generally accepted as part of the great Trojan cycle . We hear something in the poem of Hector and Achilles ...
Pagina 39
... Mediæval thinkers had believed in a small symmetrical universe which the imagination could conceive with ease . They had supposed human affairs to be the centre of the whole terrestrial and celestial system . The earth , according to ...
... Mediæval thinkers had believed in a small symmetrical universe which the imagination could conceive with ease . They had supposed human affairs to be the centre of the whole terrestrial and celestial system . The earth , according to ...
Pagina 331
... Mediæval France and mediæval England attracted him more than mediæval Italy ; and his first volume of verse , The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems ( 1858 ) , showed how much romance might be drawn from the old literature of northern ...
... Mediæval France and mediæval England attracted him more than mediæval Italy ; and his first volume of verse , The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems ( 1858 ) , showed how much romance might be drawn from the old literature of northern ...
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