The Fourteenth CenturyScribner, 1899 - 428 páginas |
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... speak is to preach . In the art of preaching lies the whole art of speaking . " True , on the whole ; and yet , in its inconsistencies , the period resembles the gay poets . Outstanding inconsistencies are the futile attempts of epic ...
... speak is to preach . In the art of preaching lies the whole art of speaking . " True , on the whole ; and yet , in its inconsistencies , the period resembles the gay poets . Outstanding inconsistencies are the futile attempts of epic ...
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... speaks out— “ couars n'ara ja bielle amie " —while the other doubts if such boldness consists with true passion . Each in turn defends her own view , and at length they call upon Jean , whose heart is grounded in love - lore , to ...
... speaks out— “ couars n'ara ja bielle amie " —while the other doubts if such boldness consists with true passion . Each in turn defends her own view , and at length they call upon Jean , whose heart is grounded in love - lore , to ...
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... speaks of " Engelond , that cleped eke was Bretayne . " But the romancer goes further , and boldly identifies Britons and Englishmen— " The Bretouns that beth Inglisse now . " That this is not a mere gloss may be inferred from English ...
... speaks of " Engelond , that cleped eke was Bretayne . " But the romancer goes further , and boldly identifies Britons and Englishmen— " The Bretouns that beth Inglisse now . " That this is not a mere gloss may be inferred from English ...
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... speaks French , but every Englishman knows English . The tendency to retrospect is even more marked in two romances dating from the first quarter of the fourteenth century - Guy of Warwick and Looking back . Bevis of Hampton . Arthur ...
... speaks French , but every Englishman knows English . The tendency to retrospect is even more marked in two romances dating from the first quarter of the fourteenth century - Guy of Warwick and Looking back . Bevis of Hampton . Arthur ...
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... speak of blissful trysts , and mourn- ful partings , and soft messages , and warm confidences , and angry mothers ; and occasionally they resolve themselves into dialogues with him . In addition to these , there are some hundreds of ...
... speak of blissful trysts , and mourn- ful partings , and soft messages , and warm confidences , and angry mothers ; and occasionally they resolve themselves into dialogues with him . In addition to these , there are some hundreds of ...
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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...