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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... imitated Rome . Little by little , like a rising tide , the movement spreads towards the north . A constant literary intercourse , wars , the prolonged occupation of Northern Italy , facilitate the diffusion of the new ideas on French ...
... imitated Rome . Little by little , like a rising tide , the movement spreads towards the north . A constant literary intercourse , wars , the prolonged occupation of Northern Italy , facilitate the diffusion of the new ideas on French ...
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... imitated from the Italian , translations , and various other works , many of which were never printed . The " Tryumphes " have been edited by the Roxburghe Club , 1887 . a printer booksellers pretend that when a work is so 60 ...
... imitated from the Italian , translations , and various other works , many of which were never printed . The " Tryumphes " have been edited by the Roxburghe Club , 1887 . a printer booksellers pretend that when a work is so 60 ...
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... imitated the princes , and the citizens imitated the nobles . Never has the English nobility been so learned , " wrote Ascham.3 He accompanies to the court of Charles V. , as secretary , in 1550 , Sir Richard Morison , a learned ...
... imitated the princes , and the citizens imitated the nobles . Never has the English nobility been so learned , " wrote Ascham.3 He accompanies to the court of Charles V. , as secretary , in 1550 , Sir Richard Morison , a learned ...
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... imitating the long Roman period , of ample and dignified movement , see the beginning of his Introduction : " What mischiefe hath insurged in realmes by intestine division , what depopulacion hath ensued in countries by civill ...
... imitating the long Roman period , of ample and dignified movement , see the beginning of his Introduction : " What mischiefe hath insurged in realmes by intestine division , what depopulacion hath ensued in countries by civill ...
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... imitated from the Latins and the Italians , to castigate the vices of his time ; his shepherds are philosophers who have retired to the country and tend their flocks , from sheer weariness of the world ; their learning is so great that ...
... imitated from the Latins and the Italians , to castigate the vices of his time ; his shepherds are philosophers who have retired to the country and tend their flocks , from sheer weariness of the world ; their learning is so great that ...
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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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