From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsMacmillan, 1899 - 325 páginas |
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... English thought , receive the merest incidental men- tion , or even no mention at all . Again , I have omitted the literature of the Anglo - Saxon period , which is written in a language nearly as hard for a modern Englishman to read as ...
... English thought , receive the merest incidental men- tion , or even no mention at all . Again , I have omitted the literature of the Anglo - Saxon period , which is written in a language nearly as hard for a modern Englishman to read as ...
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... English language and literature . The Old English or Anglo - Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech , with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections . For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native ...
... English language and literature . The Old English or Anglo - Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech , with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections . For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native ...
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... English words that were left were so changed in spelling and pronunciation as to be practically new . Chaucer stands , in date , midway between King Alfred and Alfred Tennyson , but his English differs vastly more from the former's than ...
... English words that were left were so changed in spelling and pronunciation as to be practically new . Chaucer stands , in date , midway between King Alfred and Alfred Tennyson , but his English differs vastly more from the former's than ...
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... English Church more closely to Rome , and officered it with Normans . English bishops were de- prived of their sees for illiteracy , and French abbots were set over monasteries of Saxon monks . Down to the middle of the fourteenth ...
... English Church more closely to Rome , and officered it with Normans . English bishops were de- prived of their sees for illiteracy , and French abbots were set over monasteries of Saxon monks . Down to the middle of the fourteenth ...
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... English alliterative verse continued , indeed , in occasional use to the sixteenth century . But it was linked to a forgotten literature and an obsolete dialect , and was doomed to give way . Chaucer lent his great authority to the more ...
... English alliterative verse continued , indeed , in occasional use to the sixteenth century . But it was linked to a forgotten literature and an obsolete dialect , and was doomed to give way . Chaucer lent his great authority to the more ...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ... Henry Augustin Beers Visualização integral - 1898 |
From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ... Henry Augustin Beers Visualização integral - 1894 |
From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ... Henry Augustin Beers Visualização integral - 1894 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Alfred Tennyson Arthur ballads Beaumont Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson blank verse Bleak House Byron Canterbury Tales Carlyle century character Chaucer Chronicle church classical Coleridge comedy couplet court Cowper death Dickens diction drama dramatists Dryden Elizabethan England English poetry English poets essays euphuism eyes Faerie Queene fashion Fletcher French French Revolution genius George Eliot Greek hath heart Henry hero heroic humor John Johnson Julius Cæsar King Lady language Latin literary literature lived London Lord lyrical manner Milton modern nature never night novel Paradise Lost passages passion plays poem poet poetic poetry Pope prose published Puritan reader reign romance satire Scott Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley song sonnets soul Spenser spirit story Struldbrugs style sweet Tale taste Tennyson Thackeray thee things Thomas thou thought tion Tottel's Miscellany tragedy translation wild William words Wordsworth writings written wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 293 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 285 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 270 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 278 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Página 284 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Página 272 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 297 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 100 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Página 286 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 304 - Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.