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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... poem are the only pure Anglo - Saxon works in verse of any length . We have evidence that there were nu- merous minor Anglo - Saxon poets , but only frag- ments of their songs now exist . These are the " Battle Song of Brunanburh ...
... poem are the only pure Anglo - Saxon works in verse of any length . We have evidence that there were nu- merous minor Anglo - Saxon poets , but only frag- ments of their songs now exist . These are the " Battle Song of Brunanburh ...
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... poem which has come down to us is the " Song of Hildebrand , " of the eighth century , and in the old Saxon dialect . Its story resembles that of the Persian " Sohrab and Rustum , " which has been rendered into English by the Victorian ...
... poem which has come down to us is the " Song of Hildebrand , " of the eighth century , and in the old Saxon dialect . Its story resembles that of the Persian " Sohrab and Rustum , " which has been rendered into English by the Victorian ...
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... poets of Germany , brought , by the international armies of the Holy Wars , into con- tact with the brilliant songs of ... poem " Gudrun ” —said by Schlegel to bear the same relation to the " Niebelungenlied " as the " Odyssey " to the ...
... poets of Germany , brought , by the international armies of the Holy Wars , into con- tact with the brilliant songs of ... poem " Gudrun ” —said by Schlegel to bear the same relation to the " Niebelungenlied " as the " Odyssey " to the ...
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... poets was called " Meistersänger ; " but they did not flourish greatly till the close of the next century . University of ... poem by Ciullo d'Alcamo ( 1172–1178 ) . Frederick II . of ty of Bologna . 10,000 students at the Universi- ian ...
... poets was called " Meistersänger ; " but they did not flourish greatly till the close of the next century . University of ... poem by Ciullo d'Alcamo ( 1172–1178 ) . Frederick II . of ty of Bologna . 10,000 students at the Universi- ian ...
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... poem in French . Of all the poets preceding Dante , the most successful was Guido Cavalcanti — a man of proud and melancholy temperament . But the Ital- ian language was as yet unstable and unshapen : the work of establishment was begun ...
... poem in French . Of all the poets preceding Dante , the most successful was Guido Cavalcanti — a man of proud and melancholy temperament . But the Ital- ian language was as yet unstable and unshapen : the work of establishment was begun ...
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Addison admiration ALEXANDER POPE allegory appeared Bacon beauty Ben Jonson Boccaccio Canterbury Canterbury Tales celebrated century Chaos 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 German Hamlet Hell Henry human Iliad Italian Italy James John JOHN DRYDEN John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift JOSEPH ADDISON King Knight Lady language Latin learned lish literary London Lord Louis ment Milton mind Molière moral nature never noble Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passion 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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 159 - 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 255 - 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 159 - 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 347 - 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 162 - 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 449 - 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 457 - 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 159 - 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 203 - 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 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.