History of English Literature, Volume 1Henry Holt and Company, 1876 - 502 páginas |
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... - sible . For the favorable reception this translation has met with from the press and the public , I feel much indebted . THE ACADEMY , EDINBURGH , May 31 , 1873 . H. VAN LAUN . OF TR UNIVERSITY OF FC FORNIA CONTENTS . ter .
... - sible . For the favorable reception this translation has met with from the press and the public , I feel much indebted . THE ACADEMY , EDINBURGH , May 31 , 1873 . H. VAN LAUN . OF TR UNIVERSITY OF FC FORNIA CONTENTS . ter .
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... feel their veins heated and swollen with wine , to hear and see around them the riotous orgies , this was the first need of the Bar- barians . The heavy human brute gluts himself with sensations and with noise . For such appetites there ...
... feel their veins heated and swollen with wine , to hear and see around them the riotous orgies , this was the first need of the Bar- barians . The heavy human brute gluts himself with sensations and with noise . For such appetites there ...
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... feel ; " and when , later on , the legends define and alter this vague divination of natural powers , one idea remains at the bottom of this chaos of giant - dreams , namely , that the world is a warfare , and heroism the highest good ...
... feel ; " and when , later on , the legends define and alter this vague divination of natural powers , one idea remains at the bottom of this chaos of giant - dreams , namely , that the world is a warfare , and heroism the highest good ...
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... feel their wounds . This is the conception of a hero as engendered by this race in its infancy . Is it not strange to see them place their happiness in battle , their beauty in death ? Is there any people , Hindoo , Persian , Greek , or ...
... feel their wounds . This is the conception of a hero as engendered by this race in its infancy . Is it not strange to see them place their happiness in battle , their beauty in death ? Is there any people , Hindoo , Persian , Greek , or ...
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... feel beforehand the horror of the damp , grave into which the living are about to cast him . " For thee was a house built ere thou wert born ; for thee was a mould shapen ere thou of thy mother camest . Its height is not determined ...
... feel beforehand the horror of the damp , grave into which the living are about to cast him . " For thee was a house built ere thou wert born ; for thee was a mould shapen ere thou of thy mother camest . Its height is not determined ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
amid amongst ancient arms Astrophel and Stella beauty Beowulf blood bright Cædmon Canterbury Tales century Chaucer chivalry Christian chroniclers civilization conception court death doth dreams England English eyes Faerie Queene feudal flowers France French genius gold grand Greek hand hath heart heaven Henry of Huntingdon hire human Ibid ideas imagination instincts Jötuns king knights ladies land Latin light literature living lords manners middle age mind monk moral Nathan Drake nation nature never noble Norman pagan painting passim passion Petrarch philosophy pleasure poem poet poetic poetry produced queen race religion Robert Wace Robin rose Saxon says sentiment side sing Skalds song Song of Roland soul speak Spenser spirit spring Stella style sweet sword taste thee ther things thou thought tion translated Troilus Troilus and Cressida trouvères verse villeins Warton whole words write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 351 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 201 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Página 345 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Página 389 - O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Página 401 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 247 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 266 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Página 198 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Página 384 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Página 389 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...