a history of english literature robert huntington fletcher

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 09:20

... of Beaumont 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. ... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... 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....

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... 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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... have had their own ox carts, but others would have had to hire a carter at a rate of appoximately 1d a day per tun. The allocation of wine for each member of the household who qualified was approximately ... Salisbury, known as the Kingmaker, was also a Knight of the Garter, the Captain of Calais and the Constable of Dover Castle and owned huge estates all around the country. He had married his daughters ... country can be traced through language: the names of the various animals that were eaten were transformed at the moment of death and preparation for the table from Old English to Norman French, a bullock...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 19:20

... 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 / ... 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 ... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 13:45

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... 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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