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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 92
Page xiv
... thoughts , eloquence , and weirdness - His power- ful imagination , his bad taste - His heart and wit ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... His satires - The abundance of material - Earlier satirists , Gascoigne and mediaval reminiscences ...
... thoughts , eloquence , and weirdness - His power- ful imagination , his bad taste - His heart and wit ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... His satires - The abundance of material - Earlier satirists , Gascoigne and mediaval reminiscences ...
Page 4
... thought - those same aspirations re- appear as strong , but less ungovernable , at the very time . when they might be thought dying . Natural enough would have been such a thought , for there had 4 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION .
... thought - those same aspirations re- appear as strong , but less ungovernable , at the very time . when they might be thought dying . Natural enough would have been such a thought , for there had 4 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION .
Page 5
Jean Jules Jusserand. would have been such a thought , for there had been no lack of solutions to the great problems which ever trouble the minds of men . The scholars of the Middle Ages had had answers for everything . A science which ...
Jean Jules Jusserand. would have been such a thought , for there had been no lack of solutions to the great problems which ever trouble the minds of men . The scholars of the Middle Ages had had answers for everything . A science which ...
Page 7
... thoughts , is not even the centre of the solar system , and is but the unim- portant satellite of a star . The same spirit which animated Columbus had prompted Copernicus to undertake his voyage through the firmament . The astronomer ...
... thoughts , is not even the centre of the solar system , and is but the unim- portant satellite of a star . The same spirit which animated Columbus had prompted Copernicus to undertake his voyage through the firmament . The astronomer ...
Page 9
... Thought of yesterday , and thought to - day : Tout l'or de vos cheveux est resté dans mon cœur , has written one who lives still among us - eternal thought of the lover trying to assert and fix for ever , in his verse , in his heart ...
... Thought of yesterday , and thought to - day : Tout l'or de vos cheveux est resté dans mon cœur , has written one who lives still among us - eternal thought of the lover trying to assert and fix for ever , in his verse , in his heart ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Alamanni ambassador ancient Anne Boleyn antiquity Arber Ascham beauty Bessarion Bible Bishop boke Camden Society Cardinal Catherine Howard Caxton Chronicle Church Cicero classical court Cranmer Cromwell death Dialogue doctrine edition Edward Edward VI Elizabeth Ellis eloquence Elyot England English Erasmus example famous favour France French Greek hath Henry VIII honour humanists Isocrates Italian Italy Jacques Grévin John king king's Kynge lady language Latin learned live London Lord Luther Lyndesay Mary master mediæval Middle Ages mind More's nation never noble Original Letters Oxford Paris Parliament Petrarch poems poets Pope prelates princes printed printer prose queen realm reform reign Renaissance reprinted Roger Ascham Roman Rome Ronsard Saint says sermons Sir Thomas sixteenth century statute style Surrey thing Thomas Cromwell Thomas Elyot tongue translated treatise Tyndale Utopia Venice verse Virgil Wolsey words worthy writes wrote Wyatt young
Popular passages
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!
Page 38 - Act, or any part thereof, in nowise extend or be prejudicial of any let, hurt, or impediment to any artificer or merchant stranger, of what nation or country he be or shall be of, for bringing into this realm, or selling by retail or otherwise, of any manner of books written or imprinted.