A History of English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1876 - Počet stran: 550 |
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... played in these legends by the half - mythical Arthur and his knights might seem to argue in favour of a Celtic origin for these fictions ; for if ever such a personage as Arthur really existed he must have been a British prince ; but ...
... played in these legends by the half - mythical Arthur and his knights might seem to argue in favour of a Celtic origin for these fictions ; for if ever such a personage as Arthur really existed he must have been a British prince ; but ...
Strana 31
... played no insignificant part . Geoffrey was the son of John Chaucer , vintner , of Thames Street , London , and of Agnes , his wife ; his grandfather , Richard Chaucer , had carried on the same occupa- tion of vintner . His surname ...
... played no insignificant part . Geoffrey was the son of John Chaucer , vintner , of Thames Street , London , and of Agnes , his wife ; his grandfather , Richard Chaucer , had carried on the same occupa- tion of vintner . His surname ...
Strana 85
... Plays owed their origin to this collection . At least it is certain that the writers of this Mirrour were the first who made a poetical use of the English chronicles recently com- piled by Fabyan , Hall , and Hollinshed , which opened a ...
... Plays owed their origin to this collection . At least it is certain that the writers of this Mirrour were the first who made a poetical use of the English chronicles recently com- piled by Fabyan , Hall , and Hollinshed , which opened a ...
Strana 97
... played in the investigation by those powers renders the method peculiarly sus- ceptible of that kind of corruption which arises from over - subtlety and the vain employment of words . Nor must we leave out of account the deteriorating ...
... played in the investigation by those powers renders the method peculiarly sus- ceptible of that kind of corruption which arises from over - subtlety and the vain employment of words . Nor must we leave out of account the deteriorating ...
Strana 108
... play at least an equal part in the drama of life , Hobbes fell into a narrow and one - sided view of our motives which makes his theory only half true . He was a man whose reading , though not extensive , was singularly profound : and ...
... play at least an equal part in the drama of life , Hobbes fell into a narrow and one - sided view of our motives which makes his theory only half true . He was a man whose reading , though not extensive , was singularly profound : and ...
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Strana 360 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Strana 482 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted!
Strana 45 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Strana 140 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt 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.
Strana 228 - ... sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes...
Strana 500 - ... by night in places of interment. Some stalked slowly on, absorbed in profound reverie ; some, shrieking with agony, ran furiously about like tigers wounded with poisoned arrows ; whilst others, grinding their teeth in rage, foamed along more frantic than the wildest maniac. They all avoided each other; and, though surrounded by a multitude that no one could number, each wandered at random unheedful of the rest, as if alone on a desert where no foot had trodden.
Strana 289 - Pope's translation is far from unfaithful; but in the spirit, the atmosphere, so to say, of the original, the ballad-like version of Chapman is far superior. Bentley's criticism is, after all, the best and most comprehensive that has yet been made on this work: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.
Strana ii - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Strana 419 - The greatest of these poems are unquestionably the three first — the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and the Lady of the Lake.
Strana 510 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.