A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Том 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - Всего страниц: 1150 |
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... greatest followers were Orcagna and Spinello . The Campa- nile , or Bell- tower , of Flor- ence , erected , according to the design of Giotto , 1334 . Exiled with the Guelphs from Florence , Dante de- voted himself to literature . After ...
... greatest followers were Orcagna and Spinello . The Campa- nile , or Bell- tower , of Flor- ence , erected , according to the design of Giotto , 1334 . Exiled with the Guelphs from Florence , Dante de- voted himself to literature . After ...
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... greatest good for his country . By it the English were provided with a literature of the highest style , their lan- guage became more fixed , and the fountain- head of all religious truth and doctrine was ren- dered accessible to all ...
... greatest good for his country . By it the English were provided with a literature of the highest style , their lan- guage became more fixed , and the fountain- head of all religious truth and doctrine was ren- dered accessible to all ...
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... greatest poet of the Middle Ages , beyond comparison , was Geoffrey Chaucer ; and I do not know that any other coun- try , except Italy , produced one of equal variety in invention.- HENRY HALLAM . Chaucer , notwithstanding the praises ...
... greatest poet of the Middle Ages , beyond comparison , was Geoffrey Chaucer ; and I do not know that any other coun- try , except Italy , produced one of equal variety in invention.- HENRY HALLAM . Chaucer , notwithstanding the praises ...
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... greatest story - teller in verse . - MRS . HAWEIS . Chaucer and Shakespeare have much in common . However diverse the form of their greatest works , yet in spirit there is a remarkable likeness and sympathy . Their geniuses differ ...
... greatest story - teller in verse . - MRS . HAWEIS . Chaucer and Shakespeare have much in common . However diverse the form of their greatest works , yet in spirit there is a remarkable likeness and sympathy . Their geniuses differ ...
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... greatest and most original work , " The Canterbury Tales " -an incomplete . poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse , except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the ...
... greatest and most original work , " The Canterbury Tales " -an incomplete . poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse , except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the ...
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Стр. 159 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Стр. 255 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Стр. 159 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Стр. 347 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Стр. 162 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Стр. 449 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Стр. 457 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Стр. 159 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Стр. 203 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Стр. 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.