Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547Macmillan, 1920 - 564 Seiten |
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... nature of literature . That is psychological . As the writings of an individual are indications of his mental processes , so the writings of an age combine to give an impression of the mental life and outlook of that age . This is the ...
... nature of literature . That is psychological . As the writings of an individual are indications of his mental processes , so the writings of an age combine to give an impression of the mental life and outlook of that age . This is the ...
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... nature changes slowly the inten- sity of the interest will be about proportionate . This may of course be upset by local conditions . A man may be publishing fine work at a time when the whole strength of the nation is devoted to ends ...
... nature changes slowly the inten- sity of the interest will be about proportionate . This may of course be upset by local conditions . A man may be publishing fine work at a time when the whole strength of the nation is devoted to ends ...
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... nature of documents in evidence . They are the facts which sup- port the reasoning , and , as such , must be known to the reader . I have had the less hesitancy in doing this , however , because many of the books from which the ...
... nature of documents in evidence . They are the facts which sup- port the reasoning , and , as such , must be known to the reader . I have had the less hesitancy in doing this , however , because many of the books from which the ...
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... nature , general rather than specific . Many of my friends have given me the advantage of airing my positions before them , of exposing my ignorance to their knowledge . To over - estimate the gain to this work from such contact would ...
... nature , general rather than specific . Many of my friends have given me the advantage of airing my positions before them , of exposing my ignorance to their knowledge . To over - estimate the gain to this work from such contact would ...
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... nature - Sanitation of old London- Disease Remedies - Cheapness of death ( 3 ) The geographic dis- coveries The desire for communication with the Far East - The diffusion of this idea - The extension of it in practice - Its effect upon ...
... nature - Sanitation of old London- Disease Remedies - Cheapness of death ( 3 ) The geographic dis- coveries The desire for communication with the Far East - The diffusion of this idea - The extension of it in practice - Its effect upon ...
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Seite 121 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 4 - BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest.
Seite 20 - and tell you a truth, which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Seite 516 - THE MEANS TO ATTAIN HAPPY LIFE MARTIAL, the things that do attain The happy life be these, I find: The riches left, not got with pain; The fruitful ground, the quiet mind; The equal friend, no grudge, no strife; No charge of rule nor governance; Without disease, the healthful life; The household of continuance.
Seite 36 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Seite 48 - Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram...
Seite 50 - In so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchauntes were in a shippe in tamyse, for to haue sayled ouer the see into zelande and for lacke of wynde, thei taryed atte forlond...
Seite 48 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Seite 310 - Therefore where euer that thou doest behold A comely corpse, with beautie faire endewed, Know this for certaine, that the same doth hold A beauteous soule, with faire conditions thewed, Fit to receiue the seede of vertue strewed. For all that faire is, is by nature good ; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Seite 296 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.