An Outline Sketch of English LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1886 - 294 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 23
Pagina 15
... spirit of the vikings mingled in its blood with the French nimbleness of wit and fondness for display . The Normans were a nation of knights - errant , with a passion for prowess and for courtesy . Their architecture was at once strong ...
... spirit of the vikings mingled in its blood with the French nimbleness of wit and fondness for display . The Normans were a nation of knights - errant , with a passion for prowess and for courtesy . Their architecture was at once strong ...
Pagina 31
... spirit and detail . He was familiar with dances , feasts , and state ceremonies , and all the life of the baronial castle , in bower and hall , the " trompes with the loude minstralcie , " the heralds , the ladies , and the squires ...
... spirit and detail . He was familiar with dances , feasts , and state ceremonies , and all the life of the baronial castle , in bower and hall , the " trompes with the loude minstralcie , " the heralds , the ladies , and the squires ...
Pagina 41
... spirit of romance . The effect of all this imitation of Chaucer was to fix a standard of literary style , and to confirm the authority of the East - Midland English in which he had written . Though the poets of the 15th century were not ...
... spirit of romance . The effect of all this imitation of Chaucer was to fix a standard of literary style , and to confirm the authority of the East - Midland English in which he had written . Though the poets of the 15th century were not ...
Pagina 67
... spirit , and held all these diverse ele- ments in solution . He removed them to an ideal sphere " apart from place , withholding time , " where they seem all alike equally real , the dateless con- ceptions of the poet's dream . The poem ...
... spirit , and held all these diverse ele- ments in solution . He removed them to an ideal sphere " apart from place , withholding time , " where they seem all alike equally real , the dateless con- ceptions of the poet's dream . The poem ...
Pagina 82
... spirit of romantic adventure , mixed with cool , practical enterprise that marked the times . He fought against the Queen's enemies by land and sea in many quarters of the globe ; in the Nether- lands and in Ireland against Spain , with ...
... spirit of romantic adventure , mixed with cool , practical enterprise that marked the times . He fought against the Queen's enemies by land and sea in many quarters of the globe ; in the Nether- lands and in Ireland against Spain , with ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
An Outline Sketch of English Literature Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2012 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
16th century allegory ballads Beaumont beauty became Ben Jonson Bishop blank verse Bleak House Byron Canterbury Tales Carlyle character Charles Chaucer chronicle Church classical Coleridge comedy comic contemporary couplet court Cowper death Dickens diction drama dramatists Dryden Elisabethan England English poetry English poets epic essays Euphuism Faery Queene fashion Fletcher France French friars genius glish Greek heart Henry hero Homer humor imagination John Johnson Julius Cæsar King Knight's Tale Lady language Latin Lawrence Sterne literary literature lived London lyrical manner Matthew Arnold Milton modern moral nature ness Norman novel Paradise Lost passion pieces plays poem poet poetic poetry Pope popular prose published Puritan reader reign romance satire Scott Shaks Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley songs sonnets Spenser spirit stage story style sweet Tale taste Tennyson Thackeray theater thing Thomas thou thought tion tragedy translation Whig words Wordsworth writings written wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 153 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Pagina 84 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Pagina 85 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Pagina 181 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Pagina 150 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Pagina 47 - ... the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Pagina 146 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Pagina 281 - Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
Pagina 183 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 149 - But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.