A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil War ...: From the renaissance to the civil war. 1906-09T.F. Unwin, 1906 - English literature |
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... Ancient and modern languages - Petrarch's and Dante's views -The beauty of modern languages ; attempts to free and to refine them II . PRINTING . - Earliest authentic documents : Avignon , 1444- German printers - Pious works and ...
... Ancient and modern languages - Petrarch's and Dante's views -The beauty of modern languages ; attempts to free and to refine them II . PRINTING . - Earliest authentic documents : Avignon , 1444- German printers - Pious works and ...
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... Ancients - Excellence of his descriptions ... VII . THE POETS OF THE RENEWAL.- Young courtiers , followers of the classical models , obeying their tastes and the fashion - Sir Francis Bryan , Thomas Lord Vaux , George Boleyn Lord ...
... Ancients - Excellence of his descriptions ... VII . THE POETS OF THE RENEWAL.- Young courtiers , followers of the classical models , obeying their tastes and the fashion - Sir Francis Bryan , Thomas Lord Vaux , George Boleyn Lord ...
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... Ancients and Moderns with regard to prosody- Rimed and quantitative poetry - Views and experiments of Sidney , Spenser , Harvey , Ascham - English imitations of Virgilian poetry - The defence of rime : Gascoigne , Daniel , Chapman ...
... Ancients and Moderns with regard to prosody- Rimed and quantitative poetry - Views and experiments of Sidney , Spenser , Harvey , Ascham - English imitations of Virgilian poetry - The defence of rime : Gascoigne , Daniel , Chapman ...
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... ancients , the hosts of students thronging the universities , the theolo- gical " Summæ , " and treatises de omni re scibili , with their boundless field of thought - those same aspirations re- appear as strong , but less ungovernable ...
... ancients , the hosts of students thronging the universities , the theolo- gical " Summæ , " and treatises de omni re scibili , with their boundless field of thought - those same aspirations re- appear as strong , but less ungovernable ...
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... ancients , bordering on scepticism , is taught once more , and shows how dreams should be distinguished from facts . The day is not far off when thinkers will dare · to test Antiquity herself . Wisdom and audacity : in these two words ...
... ancients , bordering on scepticism , is taught once more , and shows how dreams should be distinguished from facts . The day is not far off when thinkers will dare · to test Antiquity herself . Wisdom and audacity : in these two words ...
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Page 424 - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Page 423 - BUSY old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers
Page 115 - Brescia, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and died 1510, at Bergamo, at a very advanced age.
Page 400 - Where I to thee eternity shall give, When nothing else remaineth of these days, And queens hereafter shall be glad to live Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise ; Virgins and matrons reading these my rhymes, Shall be so much delighted with thy story, That they shall grieve they lived not in these times, To have seen thee, their sex's only glory.
Page 395 - I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.
Page 345 - Britons, you stay too long ; Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry gale, Swell your stretched sail, With vows as strong As the winds that blow you.
Page 269 - ... by express commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority derived at the first from their consent upon whose persons they . impose laws, it is no better than mere tyranny. Laws they are not therefore which public approbation hath not made so.
Page 427 - E'er bred, or all which into Noah's ark came ; A thing which would have posed Adam to name ; Stranger than seven antiquaries...
Page 451 - How chearefully thou lookest from above, And seemst to laugh atweene thy twinkling light, As joying in the sight Of these glad many, which for joy doe sing, That all the woods them answer, and their echo ring!
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