Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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Página v
... less need for a formal Preface . It may be ex- plained , however , that some freedom has been used in the selection and arrangement of matter . English literature has been treated , for example , with less detail than Icelandic ...
... less need for a formal Preface . It may be ex- plained , however , that some freedom has been used in the selection and arrangement of matter . English literature has been treated , for example , with less detail than Icelandic ...
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... less restored to honour , then followed naturally a new division of history , throwing back the darkness , and redeeming the proper centuries of romance from the disrepute that had befallen them . The Crusades , cathedrals , tournaments ...
... less restored to honour , then followed naturally a new division of history , throwing back the darkness , and redeeming the proper centuries of romance from the disrepute that had befallen them . The Crusades , cathedrals , tournaments ...
Página 5
... less rational order , really ended at the close of the eleventh century . It was then that the wandering of the German nations was completed ; out of the Teutonic anarchy came the unity of Christendom , consciously realised in the ...
... less rational order , really ended at the close of the eleventh century . It was then that the wandering of the German nations was completed ; out of the Teutonic anarchy came the unity of Christendom , consciously realised in the ...
Página 6
... less misrule and unreason in the twelfth century than went naked in earlier times , still it is hardly possible to mistake the growth of a new spirit , in virtue of which the different nations are related more closely than they had ever ...
... less misrule and unreason in the twelfth century than went naked in earlier times , still it is hardly possible to mistake the growth of a new spirit , in virtue of which the different nations are related more closely than they had ever ...
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... less , but all in an appreciable measure , French in their literary fashions : as the Editor of these histories has explained in the volume that follows this . Everything that we can think of in modern poetry ( except always the ...
... less , but all in an appreciable measure , French in their literary fashions : as the Editor of these histories has explained in the volume that follows this . Everything that we can think of in modern poetry ( except always the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adamnan adventures Alcuin Aldhelm allegory alliterative ancient Anglo-Saxon authors ballad battle Bede belongs Beowulf Bishop Boethius called Cassiodorus Celtic character Charlemagne classical common Court Cynewulf Dante Dark Ages dialogue Einhard Ekkehard Elder Edda epic poetry Ermoldus extant favourite Fortunatus French epic Froissart genius gives gods Gothic grammar Greek Gregory of Tours Hávamál Helgi hero heroic Hildebrand historians Homer honour Hrungnir Icelandic imagination Irish kind king language later Latin Latin verse learning legend less literary literature Liutprand Lombard lyrical Martianus Capella medieval Middle Ages mind modern motives myth mythology narrative ninth century Northern Notker Odin old English original phrases poem poetical poets popular prose rhetoric rhymes Roland romance Sagas Saxon Sigrun Sigurd song sort spirit St Gall stanzas story style syllables taste Teutonic themes things Thor thou tion tongues tradition translated Tuotilo Volospá Waltharius Welsh words writing wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página ii - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Página 338 - And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur's palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there, acting as porter, to welcome guests and strangers, and to receive them with honour...
Página 19 - Methinks we should not so soon yield our consents captive to the authority of antiquity, unless we saw more reason ; all our understandings are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italy. We are the children of nature as well as they ; we are not so placed out of the way of judgement, but that the same sun of discretion shineth upon us ; we have our portion of the same virtues as well as of the same vices : Et Catilinam quocunque in populo videas, quocunque sub axe.
Página 226 - Die illi nunc de me corde fideli Tantundem liebes, veniat quantum modo loubes, Et volucrum wunna quot sint, tot die sibi minna, Graminis et florum quantum sit, die et honorum.
Página 213 - O Roma nobilis, orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium excellentissima, Roseo martyrum sanguine rubea, Albis et virginum liliis candida: Salutem dicimus tibi per omnia Te benedicimus, salve per saecula.
Página 19 - Longobards, whose coming down like an inundation overwhelmed, as they say, all the glory of learning in Europe, have yet left us still their laws and customs, as the originals of most of the provincial constitutions of Christendom ; which well considered with their other courses of government, may serve to clear them from this imputation of ignorance. And though the vanquished never...
Página 109 - A man to join himself with th' Universe In his main sway, and make in all things fit One with that All, and go on, round as it; Not plucking from the whole his wretched part, And into straits, or into nought revert, Wishing the complete Universe might be Subject to such a rag of it as he...