English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-3 van 55
Pagina 29
... social classes to - day . One could tell a duke by his clothes and his retinue ; now rank conceals itself . Classes were more fixed in the middle ages . Roughly speaking , one's ambition was to be a worthy member of one's group , not as ...
... social classes to - day . One could tell a duke by his clothes and his retinue ; now rank conceals itself . Classes were more fixed in the middle ages . Roughly speaking , one's ambition was to be a worthy member of one's group , not as ...
Pagina 35
... SOCIAL CONDITIONS Classes . — The king was the head of the feudal state . From him , directly or indirectly , nobility and gentry held their land ; each pledged himself to come with his men to the support of his lord in time of need ...
... SOCIAL CONDITIONS Classes . — The king was the head of the feudal state . From him , directly or indirectly , nobility and gentry held their land ; each pledged himself to come with his men to the support of his lord in time of need ...
Pagina 157
... SOCIAL CONDITIONS Classes . - The court at the Restoration was the center of social life , but with the eighteenth century and rulers of foreign up- bringing it decreased in social importance . The nobility and gentry spent most of ...
... SOCIAL CONDITIONS Classes . - The court at the Restoration was the center of social life , but with the eighteenth century and rulers of foreign up- bringing it decreased in social importance . The nobility and gentry spent most of ...
Inhoudsopgave
THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
11 andere gedeelten niet getoond
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbey Addison authors ballads beauty became Beowulf blank verse called Carlyle Catholic Century Magazine characters Chaucer Christ's Hospital Church classes classical Coleridge comedy contemporary couplet criticism death Dickens died drama dramatist Dryden eighteenth century Elizabethan England English Literature especially essays Faerie Queene famous father finally France French friends George George Eliot Henry heroic couplet House humor iambic pentameter ideas imitated important influence interest Ireland Irish Johnson king labor lady later Latin lish literary lived London Lord married middle Middle English modern Narrative poetry novelist novels Oxford Parliament perhaps Period of Liberalism picture plays plot poems poet poetry political Pope popular prose published Puritan Queen reform Renaissance rime romantic satire Scotland Shakespeare sonnets Spenser stage story style Tennyson theater tion to-day Tories tragedy verse Westminster Abbey Whigs William Wordsworth writing written wrote young