A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - 1150 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... greatest followers were Orcagna and Spinello . The Campa- nile , or Bell- tower , of Flor- ence , erected , according to the design of Giotto , 1334- Exiled with the Guelphs from Florence , Dante de- voted himself to literature . After ...
... greatest followers were Orcagna and Spinello . The Campa- nile , or Bell- tower , of Flor- ence , erected , according to the design of Giotto , 1334- Exiled with the Guelphs from Florence , Dante de- voted himself to literature . After ...
Pagina 25
... greatest good for his country . By it the English were provided with a literature of the highest style , their lan- guage became more fixed , and the fountain- head of all religious truth and doctrine was ren- dered accessible to all ...
... greatest good for his country . By it the English were provided with a literature of the highest style , their lan- guage became more fixed , and the fountain- head of all religious truth and doctrine was ren- dered accessible to all ...
Pagina 34
... greatest poet of the Middie Ages , beyond comparison , was Geoffrey Chaucer ; and I do not know that any other coun- try , except Italy , produced one of equal variety in invention.- HENRY HALLAM . Chaucer , notwithstanding the praises ...
... greatest poet of the Middie Ages , beyond comparison , was Geoffrey Chaucer ; and I do not know that any other coun- try , except Italy , produced one of equal variety in invention.- HENRY HALLAM . Chaucer , notwithstanding the praises ...
Pagina 35
... greatest story - teller in verse . - MRS . HAWEIS . Chaucer and Shakespeare have much in common . However diverse the form of their greatest works , yet in spirit there is a remarkable likeness and sympathy . Their geniuses differ ...
... greatest story - teller in verse . - MRS . HAWEIS . Chaucer and Shakespeare have much in common . However diverse the form of their greatest works , yet in spirit there is a remarkable likeness and sympathy . Their geniuses differ ...
Pagina 43
... greatest and most original work , " The Canterbury Tales " —an incomplete poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the Cook's ...
... greatest and most original work , " The Canterbury Tales " —an incomplete poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the Cook's ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 510 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 191 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Pagina 212 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Pagina 295 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pagina 191 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Pagina 194 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Pagina 132 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 531 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pagina 237 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Pagina 191 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.