A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 40
... chief glory of this epoch of English history . Society in Chaucer's Time . The society of the period , the brighter and happier aspects of which Chaucer so brilliantly portrayed , was full of sharp contrasts . Riches and poverty ...
... chief glory of this epoch of English history . Society in Chaucer's Time . The society of the period , the brighter and happier aspects of which Chaucer so brilliantly portrayed , was full of sharp contrasts . Riches and poverty ...
الصفحة 45
... chief fruit of Chaucer's Italian journeys was the long poem adapted from Boccaccio's Philostrato ( The Love - stricken One ) , entitled by Chaucer Trolius and Cres- eide . The story of the love of the young Trojan hero for Cressida ...
... chief fruit of Chaucer's Italian journeys was the long poem adapted from Boccaccio's Philostrato ( The Love - stricken One ) , entitled by Chaucer Trolius and Cres- eide . The story of the love of the young Trojan hero for Cressida ...
الصفحة 55
... chief character , “ Piers the Plowman , " grew constantly more exalted . At first he is merely an honest , simple - hearted farmer , full of Christian helpfulness and prac- tical justice . But in the later versions he is raised and ...
... chief character , “ Piers the Plowman , " grew constantly more exalted . At first he is merely an honest , simple - hearted farmer , full of Christian helpfulness and prac- tical justice . But in the later versions he is raised and ...
الصفحة 58
... with an interesting preface from his own hand . * We shall study the Miracle Play later , when we come to discuss the beginnings of the regular drama . REVIEW OUTLINE . — Make a summary of the chief 58 Middle English Period.
... with an interesting preface from his own hand . * We shall study the Miracle Play later , when we come to discuss the beginnings of the regular drama . REVIEW OUTLINE . — Make a summary of the chief 58 Middle English Period.
الصفحة 59
... chief public events of Chaucer's time . Give the leading events of Chaucer's life . Find as many points of connection as possible between the two . Describe the state of Italy at the time of Chaucer's visits , and the effect upon the ...
... chief public events of Chaucer's time . Give the leading events of Chaucer's life . Find as many points of connection as possible between the two . Describe the state of Italy at the time of Chaucer's visits , and the effect upon the ...
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الصفحة 79 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
الصفحة 196 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
الصفحة 108 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
الصفحة 256 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
الصفحة 280 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
الصفحة 192 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best...
الصفحة 203 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us; because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
الصفحة 136 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
الصفحة 100 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
الصفحة 110 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.