History of English Literature, Band 1Henry Holt and Company, 1876 - 502 Seiten |
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... whole human race . They knew man , but not men ; they had not penetrated to the soul ; they had not seen the infinite diver sity and marvelous complexity of souls ; they did not know that the moral constitution of a people or an age is ...
... whole human race . They knew man , but not men ; they had not penetrated to the soul ; they had not seen the infinite diver sity and marvelous complexity of souls ; they did not know that the moral constitution of a people or an age is ...
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... whole of man in an abridgment ; and in this limited circle human diversities meet , sometimes in the womb of the primordial matter , sometimes in the twofold primordial development . However minute in their elements , they are enormous ...
... whole of man in an abridgment ; and in this limited circle human diversities meet , sometimes in the womb of the primordial matter , sometimes in the twofold primordial development . However minute in their elements , they are enormous ...
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... whole network of human pas- sions , the chances of peace and public security , the sources of labor and action , spring from hence . Such is the case with all primordial differences : their issues embrace an entire civilization ; and we ...
... whole network of human pas- sions , the chances of peace and public security , the sources of labor and action , spring from hence . Such is the case with all primordial differences : their issues embrace an entire civilization ; and we ...
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... whole moral and social constitution . In each case , the mechanism of human his- tory is the same . We continually find , as the original main- spring , some very general disposition of mind and soul , innate and appended by nature to ...
... whole moral and social constitution . In each case , the mechanism of human his- tory is the same . We continually find , as the original main- spring , some very general disposition of mind and soul , innate and appended by nature to ...
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... whole bent of its magnificent and harmonious genius towards the worship of pleasure and beauty . Sometimes the social conditions have impressed their mark , as eighteen cen- turies ago by Christianity , and twenty - five centuries ago ...
... whole bent of its magnificent and harmonious genius towards the worship of pleasure and beauty . Sometimes the social conditions have impressed their mark , as eighteen cen- turies ago by Christianity , and twenty - five centuries ago ...
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amid amongst ancient arms Astrophel and Stella beauty Beowulf blood bright Cædmon Canterbury Tales century Chaucer chivalry Christian chroniclers civilization conception court death doth dreams England English eyes Faerie Queene feudal flowers France French genius gold grand Greek hand hath heart heaven Henry of Huntingdon hire human Ibid ideas imagination instincts Jötuns king knights ladies land Latin light literature living lords manners middle age mind monk moral Nathan Drake nation nature never noble Norman pagan painting passim passion Petrarch philosophy pleasure poem poet poetic poetry produced queen race religion Robert Wace Robin rose Saxon says sentiment side sing Skalds song Song of Roland soul speak Spenser spirit spring Stella style sweet sword taste thee ther things thou thought tion translated Troilus Troilus and Cressida trouvères verse villeins Warton whole words write
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Seite 351 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Seite 201 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Seite 345 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Seite 389 - O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Seite 401 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Seite 247 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 266 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Seite 198 - Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Seite 384 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Seite 389 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...