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 páginas |
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... ( Hell ) , the " Pur- gatorio " ( Purgatory ) , and the " Paradiso " ( Heaven ) . Among Dante's contemporaries may be mentioned . Cino da Pistoia and Francesco da Barberino , two poets of some note ; Dino Campagni ( 1323 ) , the father of ...
... ( Hell ) , the " Pur- gatorio " ( Purgatory ) , and the " Paradiso " ( Heaven ) . Among Dante's contemporaries may be mentioned . Cino da Pistoia and Francesco da Barberino , two poets of some note ; Dino Campagni ( 1323 ) , the father of ...
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... hell , while references to the same great poet are made in the Prologue to " The Legend of Good Women " and in " The Canterbury Tales . " The first song of Troilus , in " Troilus and Cresseide , " is an almost direct translation of ...
... hell , while references to the same great poet are made in the Prologue to " The Legend of Good Women " and in " The Canterbury Tales . " The first song of Troilus , in " Troilus and Cresseide , " is an almost direct translation of ...
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... hell . Attack on the fashions of the time . Catalogue of venial sins . Description of glut- tony , and its remedy . of the whole ; the Re- Part III .: Application traction or Prayre of Chaucer . are ( These passages those which most ...
... hell . Attack on the fashions of the time . Catalogue of venial sins . Description of glut- tony , and its remedy . of the whole ; the Re- Part III .: Application traction or Prayre of Chaucer . are ( These passages those which most ...
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... hell , while references to the same great poet are made in the Prologue to " The Legend of Good Women " and in " The Canterbury Tales . " The first song of Troilus , in " Troilus and Cresseide , " is an almost direct translation of ...
... hell , while references to the same great poet are made in the Prologue to " The Legend of Good Women " and in " The Canterbury Tales . " The first song of Troilus , in " Troilus and Cresseide , " is an almost direct translation of ...
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... hell . Attack on the fashions of the time . Catalogue of venial sins . Description of glut- tony , and its remedy . of the whole ; the Re- Part III . Application traction or Prayre of Chaucer . are those which most directly ( These ...
... hell . Attack on the fashions of the time . Catalogue of venial sins . Description of glut- tony , and its remedy . of the whole ; the Re- Part III . Application traction or Prayre of Chaucer . are those which most directly ( These ...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volume 1 Maude Gillette Phillips Visualização integral - 1885 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Addison admiration ALEXANDER POPE allegory appeared Bacon beauty Ben Jonson Boccaccio Canterbury Canterbury Tales celebrated century character Charles Chaucer Church classical court criticism Dante death drama Dryden EDMUND SPENSER Elizabeth England English literature epic Essay Faerie Queene famous France French genius Geoffrey Chaucer German Hamlet Hell Henry Italian Italy James John JOHN DRYDEN John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift King Knight Lady language Latin learned letters lish literary London Lord Louis ment Milton mind Molière moral nature never noble Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passion person Petrarch Philip philosophy play poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Pope Pope's portrait prose Puritan reign religious Richard Satan satire says Shakespeare Sir Walter Sonnets Spanish Spenser spirit style Swift TAINE Tale taste theatre Thomas thought tion tragedy translation verse Voltaire William writings written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.