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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... hand , the lords were pledged to protect the possessions thus be- stowed . Hence , with these obligations of service and pro- tection were inculcated the refining ideas of duty and af- fection . From the eleventh to the thirteenth ...
... hand , the lords were pledged to protect the possessions thus be- stowed . Hence , with these obligations of service and pro- tection were inculcated the refining ideas of duty and af- fection . From the eleventh to the thirteenth ...
Pagina 12
... hands of Chaucer and Gower , it be- came classical and the language of literature . " The work of Chaucer marks the final settle- ment of the English tongue . " Thus English , a language essentially Germanic , crept forth from Anglo ...
... hands of Chaucer and Gower , it be- came classical and the language of literature . " The work of Chaucer marks the final settle- ment of the English tongue . " Thus English , a language essentially Germanic , crept forth from Anglo ...
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... hands of the lower classes . The new class of poets was called " Meistersänger ; " but they did not flourish greatly till the close of the next century . University of Prague found- ed , 1348 . III . Italy .- [ Over one hundred Popes ...
... hands of the lower classes . The new class of poets was called " Meistersänger ; " but they did not flourish greatly till the close of the next century . University of Prague found- ed , 1348 . III . Italy .- [ Over one hundred Popes ...
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... century . These three are the grand triumvirate in Italian literature , and in their hands the Italian language was brought to the highest point of literary culture . SANCHO IV . Spain . - Kingdom of Navarre : 18 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... century . These three are the grand triumvirate in Italian literature , and in their hands the Italian language was brought to the highest point of literary culture . SANCHO IV . Spain . - Kingdom of Navarre : 18 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... Hands's “ Golden Threads from Saxon Poetry . " Charles Kingsley's " Hereward . " Freeman's " History of the Norman Conquest . " " 4 an Ancient Loom , " illustrated by Schnorr . Mrs. Forster's " History of Italian Literature . " H. F. ...
... Hands's “ Golden Threads from Saxon Poetry . " Charles Kingsley's " Hereward . " Freeman's " History of the Norman Conquest . " " 4 an Ancient Loom , " illustrated by Schnorr . Mrs. Forster's " History of Italian Literature . " H. F. ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 151 - 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 247 - 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 151 - 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 337 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Pagina 152 - 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 439 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Pagina 451 - 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 151 - 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.
Pagina 193 - 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 151 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.