a history of english literature pdf

... and Fletcher, as a group, are sentimentally romantic, often in an extravagant degree, though their charm often conceals the extravagance as well as the lack of true characterization. They are notable often ... 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 ... instrumentality of a single man, a certain English archdeacon of Welsh descent, Geoffrey of Monmouth. Geoffrey, a literary and ecclesiastical adventurer looking about for a means of making himself famous,...

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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 ... fortunate abjuration and scouting whereof gave us the greatest possession in mass and variety of merit that any literature possesses the Elizabethan drama from Shakespere and Marlowe to Ford and Shirley. ... truth of its imagery. From a young poet we always expect second-hand presentations of nature, and in Sackville's day second-hand presentation of nature had been elevated to the rank of a science....

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... 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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... journals articles and conference papers. The database is produced by the ARRB Transport Research Library and is Australia’s major transport database. As well as the holdings of the ARRB Transport ... accurate to label such behavioural adaptations as ‘compensation’. While these changes may reflect a behavioural adaptation to age-related changes in performance levels, other explanations are ... considerably according to the different statistical procedures. As one example, Li, Braver and Chen (2003) used US FARS data and a national probability sample of all crashes (both non-casualty and...

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... Beelzebub, and a crowd of allegorical personages. But the battles and debats of a chivalric age were not only religious; there are battles of wine and water, battles of fast and feasting, battles of ... his character as a man, he belonged to an age of philosophers and sentimentalists, an age of "virtue" and "nature." Shakespeare's translation is as strange as that of his ... unedifying jests and merry tales of the tavern. A comic, convivial, burlesque or picaresque literature became, as it were, a parody of the literature of preciosity. Saint-Amand (1594-1661) was at once a disciple...

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... equal." Then Arthur was sad no longer. He did as Merlin advised, and had a great round table made, at which there was a seat for each one of his knights. After that there was no more quarreling ... horror of war had filled the land for so many CHAPTER 19 47 was really to blame for it. So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called Brittany, where they remained ... the armor, weapons, jewels, and other riches he had taken from the conquered people. After the war with Britain was over Claudius had a Triumph. The fame of Caractacus had already reached Rome, and when...

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... rural areas of Haryana, India, in 1992, and found that 20% were due to suicide or ac- cidental burns. Granja, Zacarias & Bergstrom (2002), in a review of pregnancy-related deaths at Maputo ... routine care. They are at increased risk of miscarriage and intrauterine growth retardation, and may have co-morbid depression and anxiety (Franko & Spurrell, 2000). Mental health and postpartum ... of death among women of reproductive age, and was associated with age under 25 years and being unmarried; pregnancy status was not reported (Tezcan & Guciz Dogan, 1990). Ganatra &...

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... but a new act of aggression soon called for reprisals, and at the head of an immense naval armament Hongi set out for the waters of the Waitemata. Clad in his helmet and coat of mail, he declaimed ... health of the invalid rapidly improved; the remembrance of past injuries melted away before the sunshine of Christian love; and, before the ship reached Australia, Ruatara was once again a man, ... more favourable—Preliminary voyage of Active—"Noah's Ark"—Arrival of mission in New Zealand—Interview with Whangaroans—"Rangihoo"—Landing of Marsden, &c.—Preparation...

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... UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA A C h A p t e ... Sketches THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK ... some quarters. Secretary of State Thomas Jeerson, for one, was afraid that a national bank would create a nancial monopoly that would undermine state banks. He also believed that creating...

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... Nicholas II at the Shipka Pass, and later an equestrian statue of the Tsar-Liberator Alexander II was placed opposite the House of Parliament in Sofia. Bulgaria meanwhile had been making rapid and ... entailing the bestowal of several pounds on the Hungarian state steamers and railways. As for the sandjak of Novi-Pazar, it was turned into a veritable Tibet, and a legend was spread abroad that ... greater independence of spirit (Montenegro was, after all, the ancient Zeta, and had always been a centre of national life) and a number of at any rate eugenic if not exactly aristocratic Serb families; these families...

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... The accounts also stated what days' works were due from each tenant according to the season of the year, and at the end of each year there was a careful valuation of live and dead stock.[129] ... century a lease of 2 acres of arable land in Nowton, Suffolk, let the land at 6d. an acre per annum for a term of six years.[150] It contains no clauses about cultivation; the landlord warrants ... complained of the decay of tillage. Mediaeval prices and statistics are, it is well known, to be taken with great caution; but we may assume that the normal annual value of land under cultivation...

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... variables actually increase the effect of stress on individual functioning. Research by Green et al. (1990) and Kahana, Harel, and Kahana (1988) suggests that individuals in each of the above-mentioned ... importance) were being away from home and family, uncertainty of return date, sanitation, lack of privacy, lack of time off and long work hours, environmental stressors (heat, insects), fear of ... Warfare, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG-191 -A, 2005. Hoge, C., et al., “Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care,” New England Journal of Medicine,...

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