A History of English LiteratureJohn Buchan T. Nelson and Sons, Limited, 1923 - 675 sidor |
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... moral and religious spirit akin to Langland's , his sermons , and his translations of the Scriptures . Wyclif was summoned before Convocation ( 1377 ) to answer for his attacks on 3TH Oman when pephens he the fern vs to ben. ( From a ...
... moral and religious spirit akin to Langland's , his sermons , and his translations of the Scriptures . Wyclif was summoned before Convocation ( 1377 ) to answer for his attacks on 3TH Oman when pephens he the fern vs to ben. ( From a ...
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... temple of the goddess , launches himself on a poem of descrip- tion and moral comment , and then breaks off apparently for lack of a climax . Το 1 point out these facts is to delimit , not to CHAP . 21 9 GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
... temple of the goddess , launches himself on a poem of descrip- tion and moral comment , and then breaks off apparently for lack of a climax . Το 1 point out these facts is to delimit , not to CHAP . 21 9 GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
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... , named Gower as one of his representatives at home ; and later dedicated Troilus and Criseyde to the " moral Gower , " whose name and friendship he obviously valued . There is no direct evidence that they ever quarrelled , 26.
... , named Gower as one of his representatives at home ; and later dedicated Troilus and Criseyde to the " moral Gower , " whose name and friendship he obviously valued . There is no direct evidence that they ever quarrelled , 26.
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... moral significance is never wholly eclipsed by their literary attractions . From the voluminous mass of these writings , many of which are inaccessible now , it is clear that idleness did not claim many days of his long life . He was ...
... moral significance is never wholly eclipsed by their literary attractions . From the voluminous mass of these writings , many of which are inaccessible now , it is clear that idleness did not claim many days of his long life . He was ...
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... moral purpose ; his romantic chivalry is made to serve virtue rather than minister to beauty . But he had nothing of Spenser's prolific invention , none of his instinct for beauty in colour or in movement . He was the scholarly moralist ...
... moral purpose ; his romantic chivalry is made to serve virtue rather than minister to beauty . But he had nothing of Spenser's prolific invention , none of his instinct for beauty in colour or in movement . He was the scholarly moralist ...
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Sida 214 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Sida 163 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Sida 145 - And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Sida 162 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Sida 305 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Sida 534 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Sida 305 - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, And rural mirth and manners are no more. Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks and...
Sida 214 - ... not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Sida 141 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Sida 278 - Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence: so, when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then, he asked her, also, what he had best do further with them.