A Smaller History of English Literature: For the Use of SchoolsJohn Murray, 1885 - 272 стор. |
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... genius no longer strove to utter itself in the native tongue , and the voice of the English nation seemed stilled for ever . But it was not the stillness of death ; in a few generations signs of returning life began to show themselves ...
... genius no longer strove to utter itself in the native tongue , and the voice of the English nation seemed stilled for ever . But it was not the stillness of death ; in a few generations signs of returning life began to show themselves ...
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... genius , he at once followed and directed the in- tellectual tendencies of his age , and is himself the " abstract and brief chronicle " of the spirit of his time . And in the age in which he lived he was eminently happy ; the ...
... genius , he at once followed and directed the in- tellectual tendencies of his age , and is himself the " abstract and brief chronicle " of the spirit of his time . And in the age in which he lived he was eminently happy ; the ...
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... genius in a band of rare intellects . No writings - not even those of Chaucer himself - so faithfully reflect the popular feeling during the great social and religious movement that forms so striking a feature of the latter half of the ...
... genius in a band of rare intellects . No writings - not even those of Chaucer himself - so faithfully reflect the popular feeling during the great social and religious movement that forms so striking a feature of the latter half of the ...
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... a very simple , but not . over felicitous plan , which is much inferior to Chaucer's , and hardly equal even to Boccacio's . Instead of a number of characters , we have but two , Lover and Genius ; the 38 CHAP . V. ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... a very simple , but not . over felicitous plan , which is much inferior to Chaucer's , and hardly equal even to Boccacio's . Instead of a number of characters , we have but two , Lover and Genius ; the 38 CHAP . V. ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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For the Use of Schools James Rowley. we have but two , Lover and Genius ; the former , by direction of Venus , confessing his sins to the latter , who , as the goddess's own clerk , listens to the penitent , and then , before shriving ...
For the Use of Schools James Rowley. we have but two , Lover and Genius ; the former , by direction of Venus , confessing his sins to the latter , who , as the goddess's own clerk , listens to the penitent , and then , before shriving ...
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Сторінка 32 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Сторінка 261 - His work is eminently judicial. Its whole spirit is that of the bench, not that of the bar. He sums up with a calm, steady impartiality, turning neither to the right nor to the left, glossing over nothing, exaggerating nothing, while the advocates on both sides are alternately biting their lips to hear their conflicting misstatements and sophisms exposed. On a general survey, we do not scruple to pronounce the Constitutional History the most impartial book that we ever read.
Сторінка 215 - The greatest of these poems are unquestionably the three first — the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake.
Сторінка 15 - Celtic, Norman, Greek, and Latin ingredients, but not a single drop of foreign blood has entered into the organic system of the English language. The grammar, the blood and soul of the language, is as pure and unmixed in English as spoken in the British Isles, as it was when spoken on the shores of the German Ocean by the Angles, Saxons, and Juts of the continent.
Сторінка 273 - THE STUDENT'S HUME. A History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688. By DAVID HUME. Abridged. Incorporating the Corrections and Researches of Recent Historians, and continued down to the Year 1858.