A History of English Literature doc

... noble architecture in cathedrals and palaces, of formal religious ritual, and of the pomp and display of all elaborate pageantry. In the outcome they largelyreshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon ... preparation of his 'Dictionary of the English Language.' The earliestmentionable English dictionary had appeared as far back as 1604, 'containing 3000 hard words gathered forCHAPTER ... outbreaks, William established himself and his vassals as masters of the land. England ceased to beAnglo-Saxon and became, altogether politically, and partly in race, Norman-French, a change...

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. doc

... tale was again sung by anAnglo-Norman named THOMAS. Here again in a fragment we read of Tristan's marriage, a marriage onlyin name, to the white-handed Iseut of Brittany, his fidelity of ... encyclopaedia of all the knowledge and all the opinions of the author. This latest Renard has a value akin to that of the second part of Le Roman de la Rose; it is a presentation of the ideas and manners ... Filostrato this tale reached our English Chaucer, and through Chaucer it gave rise to the strange, half-heroic, half-satirical play of Shakespeare.Again, ten years later, an unknown poet was adapting...

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE doc

... communication than to-day, and many streams now silted up and shallow were navigable according to Domesday. Water carriage was, as always, much cheaper than land carriage, and corn could be carried ... supplementary to those of the bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock of the manor, saw to the manuring of the land, kept a tally of the day's work, had charge of the granary, and ... Westminster was 'so full of holes and bogs' that the traffic was dangerous for men and carriages; and a little later all the roads near London were so bad, that carriers 'are oftentimes...

Tài liệu History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature pdf

... gone astray as she is off her penance.CHAPTER V 107CHAPTER VILATER ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSEOne name so far dominates the prose literature of the last years of Elizabeth, and that of the ... the jealous hatred of The Dutch Courtesan is again not made probable. Thencame Marston's completest work in drama, The Malcontent, an anticipation, after Elizabethan fashion, of LeMisanthrope ... hurriedly, and for a purpose, have hardly any share of the graces of style; and his masterpiece, the famous History of the World, ismade up of short passages of the most extraordinary beauty, and long...

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf

... pleasure of recognition." Again and again realism returns to the chargeand demands of art that it give us the present and the actual; and again and again the imagination eludes thedemand ... conservative, he was notreactionary after the fashion of the German "throne-and-altar" romanticists, but remained always a goodChurch of England man and an obstinate opponent of Catholic ... Chrestien's'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in manyballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,'...

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A History of English Food pdf

... 1973, and a ham off a big brockwould have kept a family going for some time. West Country pubs of my childhood had badger hams on the bar rather as a Spanish tapasbar has a jamón ibérico. Badger ... CHAPTER 4Orange Carrots and White BreadEngland in the Age of GlorianaSMALL EVENTS CAN have dramatic and unintended consequences. HadCatherine of Aragon borne Henry VIII a son, the course of ... thatgreat spits of meat were being eaten by Sheriff of Nottingham types on a daily basis. Many cattle, in fact, were killed at a particular time of theyear – Michaelmas, at the end of September...

a history of thermodynamics the doctrine of energy and entropy

... gained him a regular salary of 150 florin. Later he changed to Stadtarzt, at the same salary, and in that capacity he had to treat the poor, – free of charge – and also the lower employees of ... heat, – and Mayer did still shy away from saying: Heat is motion.Rumford even made an attempt to give an idea of what was later called the mechanical equivalent of heat. His drill was operated ... path of Lavoisier, because he married the chemist’s widow. Asimov writesThe marriage was unhappy. After four years they separated and Rumford was so ungallant as to hint that she was so hard...

a history of icelandic literature

... more about Icelandic literature beyond the sagas andthe Eddas, it has long been both out of date and out of print. This fact isrevealing of what has shaped the position and study of Icelandic literature, no ... international literary arena. At the same time, new generations of Icelandic scholars are reassessing traditional views of Icelandic literature, subjecting it to new approaches, and examining aspects ... island with itsharsh natural conditions, a remarkable amount of poetry was preservedorally; and, owing to an unusual alliance between the church and a nativeruling class, much of oral tradition...

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Tài liệu Beddall - A History of Britain [Penguin Readers L3] doc

... England.(c) He was a Norman. He became King of England.(d) He was a great Roman leader.(e) He defeated the Vikings and sent them away from Britain.(f) He was a Viking king of England. 2 Read ... began the process of changing Britain from a Catholic nation to a Protestant one, mainly because he was tired of his wife and wanted a new one! Despite attempts by Mary I and Mary Queen of ... look at the map on page 5. What can they remember about each of the places on the map? Then ask them to make a historical map of their own country. What place names will they include, and why?...

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