The Fourteenth CenturyScribner, 1899 - 428 páginas |
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... poet , were more or less conscious tools , while the master - singers contributed to the same result by their ... poets of the Middle Age , " remarks M. Dinaux , 2 " began with singing love and its delights ; later they turned into verse ...
... poet , were more or less conscious tools , while the master - singers contributed to the same result by their ... poets of the Middle Age , " remarks M. Dinaux , 2 " began with singing love and its delights ; later they turned into verse ...
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... poets . Outstanding inconsistencies are the futile attempts of epic and romance to survive and thrive in this uncongenial atmosphere ; and con- venience suggests that these failures be noted first . To the decadent lyric , naturally ...
... poets . Outstanding inconsistencies are the futile attempts of epic and romance to survive and thrive in this uncongenial atmosphere ; and con- venience suggests that these failures be noted first . To the decadent lyric , naturally ...
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... poet , whoever he may have been , does not belittle the English as a race . They are " bold as lions , " as is proved by the event . The Bretons are equally brave , and win . The Combat took place in 1350 , and the poem , which is in ...
... poet , whoever he may have been , does not belittle the English as a race . They are " bold as lions , " as is proved by the event . The Bretons are equally brave , and win . The Combat took place in 1350 , and the poem , which is in ...
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... poet had pre- dicated that " of it comes sense and goodness , " but which , in romance at least , is conspicuous rather for the latter than the former quality . A young vassal lifts his eyes to his lord's daughter , who not unnatur ...
... poet had pre- dicated that " of it comes sense and goodness , " but which , in romance at least , is conspicuous rather for the latter than the former quality . A young vassal lifts his eyes to his lord's daughter , who not unnatur ...
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... poet iestre sans cremour ; C'est d'amours li plus ciertains signes . " One source of this fear is the possibility of rejection . Another is the risk of displeasing the lady . Nay , the very force of love robs a man of nerve , of self ...
... poet iestre sans cremour ; C'est d'amours li plus ciertains signes . " One source of this fear is the possibility of rejection . Another is the risk of displeasing the lady . Nay , the very force of love robs a man of nerve , of self ...
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allegory alliterative appears artistic Ayala ballad Beatrice Boccaccio Brunetto Latini cæsura Canterbury Canterbury Tales canto chansons de geste Chaucer chronicle Commedia composed composition contemporary Convivio couplet cynghanedd Dante Dante's death Decameron Dino Dino Compagni Divine edition English epic epistles fabliau fact fame favour Florence Florentine fourteenth century France French Froissart Gamelyn German Ghibellines Gower Guelf Guido Guinicelli Guittone hand honour influence Italian Italy Jean King knight lady later Latin legend lines literary literature lyric matter mediæval ment metre moral nature noble novel original Paradiso perhaps Petrarch poem poet poetical poetry popular probably prose Provençal Purgatory Ramon Muntaner regard rhyme rhyme royal rímur romance sense song sonnet soul speaks spirit stanza story strophe style syllables tale things thou thought tion translation Troubadour verse Villani Virgil vision Vita Nuova Wiclif wife words writings written
Passagens conhecidas
Página 215 - Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land : And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all...
Página 158 - Per me si va nella città dolente; per me si va nell' eterno dolore; per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Página 346 - ... clearly into your will and pleasure, to save the residue of the people of Calais who have suffered great pain. Sir, we beseech your grace to have mercy and pity on us through your high nobles.
Página 277 - I am no cunning hunter,' he said, 'Nor neer intend to be; But I am come to this castle To seek the love of thee. And if you do not grant me love, This night for thee I'll die.
Página 228 - Yet not from their upright direction swayed, So that the little birds upon their tops Should leave the practice of each art of theirs ; But with full ravishment the hours of prime, Singing, received they in the midst of leaves, That ever bore a burden to their rhymes...
Página 214 - O dear Spirit, half-lost In thine own shadow and this fleshly sign That thou art thou — who wailest being born And banish'd into mystery, and the pain Of this divisible-indivisible world Among the numerable-innumerable Sun, sun, and sun, thro...
Página 306 - Love, and in his hand a quene, And she was clad in real habit grene. A fret of gold she hadde next her heer, And upon that a whit...
Página 206 - Rome, that reformed the world, accustomed was Two suns to Have which one road and the other. Of God and of the world, made manifest. One has the other quenched, and to the crosier The sword is joined, and ill beseemeth it. Because, being joined one feareth not the other.
Página 225 - I find that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of mankind, has inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and of parties...
Página 217 - Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the l evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities...