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 largely reshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon ... preparation of his 'Dictionary of the English Language.' The earliest mentionable English dictionary had appeared as far back as 1604, 'containing 3000 hard words...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... tale was again sung by an Anglo-Norman named THOMAS. Here again in a fragment we read of Tristan's marriage, a marriage only in 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 presentat...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20

... gone astray as she is off her penance. CHAPTER V 107 CHAPTER VI LATER ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE One 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. Then came Marston's completest work in drama, The Malcontent, an anticipation, after Elizabethan fashion, of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... pleasure of recognition." Again and again realism returns to the charge and demands of art that it give us the present and the actual; and again and again the imagination eludes the demand ... conservative, he was not reactionary after the fashion of the German "throne-and-altar" romanticists, but remained always a good Church of England man and an obstinate opponent...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

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Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:26

... 1973, and a ham off a big brock would have kept a family going for some time. West Country pubs of my childhood had badger hams on the bar rather as a Spanish tapas bar has a jamón ibérico. Badger ... CHAPTER 4 Orange Carrots and White Bread England in the Age of Gloriana SMALL EVENTS CAN have dramatic and unintended consequences. Had Catherine of Aragon borne Henry VIII a s...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 19:20

... 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 wa...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 16:42

... more about Icelandic literature beyond the sagas and the Eddas, it has long been both out of date and out of print. This fact is revealing 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 ne...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 13:45

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 03:17