Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the Elizabethan PeriodRivingtons, 1884 - 374 páginas |
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... expressions of the great truth that the history of society is the history of a natural ordered growth ; that there is a continuity in all the phases of our politics , of our literature , of our social life ; that each phase is vitally ...
... expressions of the great truth that the history of society is the history of a natural ordered growth ; that there is a continuity in all the phases of our politics , of our literature , of our social life ; that each phase is vitally ...
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... expression of belief in man as a rational being apart from theological determinations , which , together with a profound belief in and reverence for the classics , constitutes the essence of humanism . " " Then the Supreme Maker ...
... expression of belief in man as a rational being apart from theological determinations , which , together with a profound belief in and reverence for the classics , constitutes the essence of humanism . " " Then the Supreme Maker ...
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... expression - self - expression in its most complete , beautiful , and harmonious form . With Petrarch love of form was indeed a passion before he could understand Latin he was accustomed to repeat to himself the orations of Cicero ...
... expression - self - expression in its most complete , beautiful , and harmonious form . With Petrarch love of form was indeed a passion before he could understand Latin he was accustomed to repeat to himself the orations of Cicero ...
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... expressing his opinion : " The mysteries of kings it may be safer to conceal , but Christ wished His mys- teries to be published as openly as possible . I wish that even the weakest woman should read the gospel - should read the ...
... expressing his opinion : " The mysteries of kings it may be safer to conceal , but Christ wished His mys- teries to be published as openly as possible . I wish that even the weakest woman should read the gospel - should read the ...
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... expressing with ease what others can hardly express with the greatest labour -were many Lollards , attracted no doubt by his absence of formalism , by his attempt to grasp the spiritual meaning of religion . But Colet was no more a ...
... expressing with ease what others can hardly express with the greatest labour -were many Lollards , attracted no doubt by his absence of formalism , by his attempt to grasp the spiritual meaning of religion . But Colet was no more a ...
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admiration artistic Ascham Bacon Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Bussy d'Ambois Cæsar called character characterisation Charles Lamb chivalry Church classic Colet comedy conception court death delight dignity divine doth drama dramatists Edward II Elizabethan England English enthusiasm Erasmus Euphues Euphuists expression eyes Faery Queen faith fame Faust feeling Gabriel Harvey genius give Gorboduc hath heart heaven Henry Henry VIII Hooker human humour ideal interest Italy Jonson Julius Cæsar King lady learning literary live Lord Lyly Marlowe Marlowe's mind moral nature never noble passion pastoral Petrarch play plot poem poet poetic poetry political Puritan Queen reform religious Renaissance Richard II satire says scene Sejanus sense Shakspere Shakspere's shows Sidney sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage style sweet Tamburlaine thee theory things thou thought tion tragedy true truth unto verse virtue writing wrote youth
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Página 130 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 317 - ... itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Página 129 - Clarence, in steel so bright, Though but a maiden knight. Yet in that furious fight Scarce such another. Warwick in blood did wade, Oxford the foe invade, And cruel slaughter made Still as they ran up; Suffolk his axe did ply, Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily, Ferrers and Fanhope.
Página 357 - GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.
Página 348 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 363 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Página 358 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 226 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Página 365 - I see them walking in an air of glory, "Whose light doth trample on my days — My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
Página 223 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...