A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Volume 1 |
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... satirical nature , many of which were very popular , and are well known at the present day— 66 Roman de Renard " and " Roman de la Rose . " The former is the story of Reynard the Fox , the " Reinecke Fuchs " of Germany ; the latter is ...
... satirical nature , many of which were very popular , and are well known at the present day— 66 Roman de Renard " and " Roman de la Rose . " The former is the story of Reynard the Fox , the " Reinecke Fuchs " of Germany ; the latter is ...
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... satire on religion and royalty , and its influence has extended over all classes of so- ciety . It has been studied in universities ; princesses , Meistersänger . grave men , the learned and ignorant , have found pleasure in reading it ...
... satire on religion and royalty , and its influence has extended over all classes of so- ciety . It has been studied in universities ; princesses , Meistersänger . grave men , the learned and ignorant , have found pleasure in reading it ...
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... satirical reflections on marriage and religion in the " Confessions of the Wife of Bath , " in the portrait of the Friar given in the Prologue , and in " The Sompnoures Tale ; " also the humorous tales of the Miller and the Reeve ...
... satirical reflections on marriage and religion in the " Confessions of the Wife of Bath , " in the portrait of the Friar given in the Prologue , and in " The Sompnoures Tale ; " also the humorous tales of the Miller and the Reeve ...
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... satirist of his time , an eminent scholar , and pronounced by Erasmus the " glory and light of English ry in the reign It was taken Thomas Malo- of Henry IV . from the icles , and was Sir Walter prose romance French chron- pronounced by ...
... satirist of his time , an eminent scholar , and pronounced by Erasmus the " glory and light of English ry in the reign It was taken Thomas Malo- of Henry IV . from the icles , and was Sir Walter prose romance French chron- pronounced by ...
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... satire of " Colin Clout " there is a spirited attack on Cardinal Wolsey which effectively represents the popular sentiment in ecclesiastical matters just before the rupture between Henry VIII . and the Pope . He was the last of ...
... satire of " Colin Clout " there is a spirited attack on Cardinal Wolsey which effectively represents the popular sentiment in ecclesiastical matters just before the rupture between Henry VIII . and the Pope . He was the last of ...
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Page 159 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 255 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 159 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Page 347 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Page 162 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 449 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Page 457 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 159 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 203 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.