A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the Civil War, Volum 1T. Fisher Unwin, 1926 |
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A Literary History of the English People: From the origins to the renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand Visualització completa - 1909 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 400 - Where I to thee eternity shall give, When nothing else remaineth of these days, And queens hereafter shall be glad to live Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise ; Virgins and matrons reading these my rhymes, Shall be so much delighted with thy story, That they shall grieve they lived not in these times, To have seen thee, their sex's only glory.
Pàgina 395 - I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.
Pàgina 38 - Act, or any part thereof, in nowise extend or be prejudicial of any let, hurt, or impediment to any artificer or merchant stranger, of what nation or country he be or shall be of, for bringing into this realm, or selling by retail or otherwise, of any manner of books written or imprinted.
Pàgina 427 - Arm, arm, He meant to cry ; and though his face be as ill As theirs which in old hangings whip Christ, still He strives to look worse ; he keeps all in awe ; Just like a licens'd fool, commands like law.
Pàgina 163 - Manutius, at the close of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century...
Pàgina 198 - The church stood in my way, and I took my horse and my company and went thither (I thought I should have found a great company in the church), and when I came there, the church door was fast locked.
Pàgina 532 - Especially if he please to take knowledge, that in all these creatures of his making, his intent, and scope was, to turn the barren Philosophy precepts into pregnant Images of life; and in them, first on the Monarch's part, lively to represent the growth, state, and declination of Princes, change of Government, and lawes: vicissitudes of sedition, faction, succession, confederacies, plantations, with all other errors, or alterations in publique affaires.
Pàgina 362 - Plautus for comedy, and calls him "the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." He also names him "mellifluous and honeytongued Shakespeare": "I say," writes Meres, "that the Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English.
Pàgina 503 - Gather therefore the Rose whilest yet is prime, For soone comes age that will her pride deflowre; Gather the Rose of Love whilest yet is time, Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime. He ceast; and then gan all the quire of birdes Their diverse notes t...
Pàgina 480 - SIR, knowing how doubtfully all allegories may be construed, and this booke of mine, which I have entituled the Faery Queene, being a continued allegory...