A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 páginas |
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... Reformation . Chaucer paints the char- acter of the Parson , poor in this world's goods but " rich of holy thought and work , " with loving and reverent touch . The Parson's brother travels with him - a Plowman , a " true swinker and a ...
... Reformation . Chaucer paints the char- acter of the Parson , poor in this world's goods but " rich of holy thought and work , " with loving and reverent touch . The Parson's brother travels with him - a Plowman , a " true swinker and a ...
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... Reformation . Wyclif's Bible . In order to make this appeal effective with the masses , Wyclif undertook to translate the whole of the Bible into English . Up to Wyclif's time the Bible had not been translated . The Saxon scholar , Bede ...
... Reformation . Wyclif's Bible . In order to make this appeal effective with the masses , Wyclif undertook to translate the whole of the Bible into English . Up to Wyclif's time the Bible had not been translated . The Saxon scholar , Bede ...
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... Reformation . " Contrast Chaucer with his great contemporary Lang- land , in character , and in the kind of themes they each chose to write about . What is the source of our knowledge concerning Langland's life ? Give the chief facts ...
... Reformation . " Contrast Chaucer with his great contemporary Lang- land , in character , and in the kind of themes they each chose to write about . What is the source of our knowledge concerning Langland's life ? Give the chief facts ...
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... Reformation , which we shall treat of shortly . At the same time the intellectual movement of the modern world , known as the Renaissance , was having its effect in England , though its full influence did not appear until after the ...
... Reformation , which we shall treat of shortly . At the same time the intellectual movement of the modern world , known as the Renaissance , was having its effect in England , though its full influence did not appear until after the ...
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... Reformation . The fact that both Wyatt and Surrey , the introducers of Renaissance poetry , wrote also religious verse , emphasizes the fact that in England the Renaissance and the Reformation were nearly contemporary . The for- mal ...
... Reformation . The fact that both Wyatt and Surrey , the introducers of Renaissance poetry , wrote also religious verse , emphasizes the fact that in England the Renaissance and the Reformation were nearly contemporary . The for- mal ...
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Página 79 - 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.
Página 196 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 108 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 256 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Página 280 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Página 192 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Página 203 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us; because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
Página 136 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 100 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Página 110 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.