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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... things which , " he said , " were deemed impossible . " I Erewhile , " the age was darksome and had something left in it of the infelicity and calamity of the Goths . " Dawn has now come ; yesterday's " absurd " becomes to- day's ...
... things which , " he said , " were deemed impossible . " I Erewhile , " the age was darksome and had something left in it of the infelicity and calamity of the Goths . " Dawn has now come ; yesterday's " absurd " becomes to- day's ...
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... things.3 The Bible is full of symbols , the purport of which must be understood ; so are Virgil's works and Homer's . " Homeric and Virgilian poems , " writes he , " will not be of indifferent use to thee , if thou rememberest that they ...
... things.3 The Bible is full of symbols , the purport of which must be understood ; so are Virgil's works and Homer's . " Homeric and Virgilian poems , " writes he , " will not be of indifferent use to thee , if thou rememberest that they ...
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... a university by the banks of remote Fluvana , he built it according to Palladian rules ; and the first thing we did , we French , when we reached Timbuctu the mysterious , was to erect a monumental post office : and it THE RENAISSANCE . 17.
... a university by the banks of remote Fluvana , he built it according to Palladian rules ; and the first thing we did , we French , when we reached Timbuctu the mysterious , was to erect a monumental post office : and it THE RENAISSANCE . 17.
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... thing happens : the great works of the thinkers and poets , penetrated with admiration for the classics , are in the vulgar tongue ; and the same phenomenon occurs , at the end of the fifteenth and begin- ning of the sixteenth centuries ...
... thing happens : the great works of the thinkers and poets , penetrated with admiration for the classics , are in the vulgar tongue ; and the same phenomenon occurs , at the end of the fifteenth and begin- ning of the sixteenth centuries ...
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... things , be of your own country . A bridge can very well serve to facilitate communica- tions , and also to mark a frontier ; often it marks it better than the torrent over which it is thrown ; there are other torrents , but there is ...
... things , be of your own country . A bridge can very well serve to facilitate communica- tions , and also to mark a frontier ; often it marks it better than the torrent over which it is thrown ; there are other torrents , but there is ...
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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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