History of English Literature, Volume 1Henry Holt and Company, 1876 - 502 páginas |
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... play of imagination , the isolated caprice of an excited brain , but a transcript of contemporary manners , a manifestation of a certain kind of mind . It was concluded that we might recover , from the monuments of literature , a ...
... play of imagination , the isolated caprice of an excited brain , but a transcript of contemporary manners , a manifestation of a certain kind of mind . It was concluded that we might recover , from the monuments of literature , a ...
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... play . A civilization forms a body , and its parts are connected with each other like the parts of an organic body . As in an animal , instincts , teeth , limbs , osseous structure , muscular envel- ope , are mutually connected , so ...
... play . A civilization forms a body , and its parts are connected with each other like the parts of an organic body . As in an animal , instincts , teeth , limbs , osseous structure , muscular envel- ope , are mutually connected , so ...
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... play , he cried , " Why was I not there with my Franks ! " So here the old warrior instinct swelled into flame over the Hebrew wars . As soon as Judith returned , " Men under helms ( went out ) from the holy city at the dawn itself ...
... play , he cried , " Why was I not there with my Franks ! " So here the old warrior instinct swelled into flame over the Hebrew wars . As soon as Judith returned , " Men under helms ( went out ) from the holy city at the dawn itself ...
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... play with him for his harping . Then was there also a very horrible gatekeeper , whose name should be Charon . He had also three heads , and he was very old . Then began the harper to beseech him that he would pro- tect him while he was ...
... play with him for his harping . Then was there also a very horrible gatekeeper , whose name should be Charon . He had also three heads , and he was very old . Then began the harper to beseech him that he would pro- tect him while he was ...
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... play of Saint Catherine ; a third wrote in polished Latin , " epigrams as pointed as those of Mar- tial . " Such were the recreations of an intelligent race , eager for ideas , of ready and flexible genius , whose clear thought was not ...
... play of Saint Catherine ; a third wrote in polished Latin , " epigrams as pointed as those of Mar- tial . " Such were the recreations of an intelligent race , eager for ideas , of ready and flexible genius , whose clear thought was not ...
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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...