From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIIIMacmillan, 1903 |
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Pàgina v
... feels his enthusiasm enkindled , he desires to know , and to know instantly and without disturbance , not only who the writer was and what he wrote , but what he looked like ; perhaps at various ages ; where he lived , what his ...
... feels his enthusiasm enkindled , he desires to know , and to know instantly and without disturbance , not only who the writer was and what he wrote , but what he looked like ; perhaps at various ages ; where he lived , what his ...
Pàgina vii
... feels that his work would have better corresponded to his wish if various important accessions to the knowledge of his subject had not fallen under his observation too late to be turned to account . One reflection has strongly impressed ...
... feels that his work would have better corresponded to his wish if various important accessions to the knowledge of his subject had not fallen under his observation too late to be turned to account . One reflection has strongly impressed ...
Pàgina 3
... feeling connects him with it . It must be thought that even before the Saxon's advent , whatever visible traces of Roman dominion might remain , Roman influence was verging towards extinc- tion in Britain . The condition of the remains ...
... feeling connects him with it . It must be thought that even before the Saxon's advent , whatever visible traces of Roman dominion might remain , Roman influence was verging towards extinc- tion in Britain . The condition of the remains ...
Pàgina 9
... feeling . The half - mythical bard may well impersonate some really wronged or slighted minstrel at an Anglo - Saxon court . The absence of every Scrip- tural or ecclesiastical personage from his types of misfortune seems almost a proof ...
... feeling . The half - mythical bard may well impersonate some really wronged or slighted minstrel at an Anglo - Saxon court . The absence of every Scrip- tural or ecclesiastical personage from his types of misfortune seems almost a proof ...
Pàgina 18
... feeling of the period . At first sight Beowulf seems like a Milton writing in the age of Pope ; we shall , however , find reason to conclude that the tradition of the past was not in fact so entirely abolished . There were idyllic poets ...
... feeling of the period . At first sight Beowulf seems like a Milton writing in the age of Pope ; we shall , however , find reason to conclude that the tradition of the past was not in fact so entirely abolished . There were idyllic poets ...
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From the beginnings to the age of Henry VIII, by Richard Garnett Richard Garnett,Edmund Gosse Visualització de fragments - 1935 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 214 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Pàgina 350 - With eyes cast up into the maidens' tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love; The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue, The dances short, long tales of great delight; With words and looks that tigers could but rue, Where each of us did plead the other's right...
Pàgina 214 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
Pàgina 77 - We must now proceed to the two great poems which were produced at the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century.
Pàgina 286 - Worship all ye that lovers be this May, For of your bliss the kalends are begun, And sing with us, away, winter away, Come, summer come, the sweet season and sun.
Pàgina 350 - Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth. Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Pàgina 347 - My lute, awake, perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun, And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.
Pàgina 347 - The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection: So that I am past remedy; Whereby my lute and I have done. Proud of the spoil...
Pàgina 166 - And with that word, naked, with ful good herte, Among the serpents in the pit she sterte, And ther she chees to han hir buryinge. Anoon the neddres gonne...
Pàgina 256 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.