... 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 ... ones as Burns' 'Cotter's Saturday Night,' Byron's 'Childe Harold,' Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes,' and Shelley's 'Adonais.' In general ... years beginning in 1660. Pepys, who ultimately became Secretary to the Admiralty, and was a hard-working and very able naval official, was also astonishingly naïf and vain. In his 'Diary'...
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... had followed Fabyan as an English historian, and, above all, Latimer's Sermons had shown how to transform spoken English of the raciest kind into literature. Lord Berners's translations ... was written to another father of English prose, Sir Thomas Hoby, the translator of Castiglione's Courtier. But Ascham had already and some years earlier published his Toxophilus, and various ... translations of Froissart and of divers examples of late Continental romance had provided much prose of no mean quality for light reading, and also by their imitation of the florid and fanciful style of...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf
... of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and sublime ... Chrestien's 'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in many ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' ... Rossettis in England and of Longfellow and Dr. Parsons in America that any poetry of a really Dantesque inspiration and, at the same time, of high original value was added to our literature. [18] The...
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A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. doc
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A History of English Food pdf
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a history of icelandic literature
... of the laws of nature, makes him somewhat of a magician. Like Daedalus, he belongs to a category of famous smiths appearing in myths and legends that probably express the wonder aroused by early ... of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ! Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data A history of Icelandic literature / ... be of late origin, like Sigurđarkvi a skamma and Atlamỏl in grổnlensku (The Greenland lay of Atli), all products of an indigenous Icelandic development under the influence of oral sagas that had,...
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A History of the English Church in New Zealand pot
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A History of AeronauticsThe Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 pptx
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A History of Mathematics, by Florian Cajori docx
... was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.” Aristotle says that mathematics ... the quadrature of the circle. On this account it is called the quadratrix. The Pythagoreans had shown that the diagonal of a square is the side of another square having double the area of the original ... symbol of recognition by the Pythagoreans, and was called by them Health. Pythagoras called the sphere the most beautiful of all A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS. 18 primitive. Not only in mathematics,...
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