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... style unknown before . " This style was of course the round arched Norman architecture , of which the specimens in England are so numerous and so magnificent . Nearly all the monasteries in England , till the introduction of the ...
... style unknown before . " This style was of course the round arched Norman architecture , of which the specimens in England are so numerous and so magnificent . Nearly all the monasteries in England , till the introduction of the ...
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... style evi- dently contains within itself the germ of a certain dis- solution , unless it admit of change and enrichment from without . But external circumstances accelerated the fall of the literature of the Troubadours ; the bloody ...
... style evi- dently contains within itself the germ of a certain dis- solution , unless it admit of change and enrichment from without . But external circumstances accelerated the fall of the literature of the Troubadours ; the bloody ...
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... style is that of a man who is fully au courant with the civilisation , and familiar with the litera- ture of his age , while Layamon's bespeaks the simple parish priest , moving among a rustic population , whose barbarous dialect he ...
... style is that of a man who is fully au courant with the civilisation , and familiar with the litera- ture of his age , while Layamon's bespeaks the simple parish priest , moving among a rustic population , whose barbarous dialect he ...
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... style and language of which require us to place them as early as the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century . In one or two poems of the last class , passages of which are given by Warton , there shines out from under the ...
... style and language of which require us to place them as early as the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century . In one or two poems of the last class , passages of which are given by Warton , there shines out from under the ...
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... style , no less than in the metre , of the Fabliaux . The Romaunce of the Rose is a translation of the long , allegorical poem bearing that title , begun by Guillaume de Lorris ( died 1260 ) , and continued by Jean de Meun . Chaucer ...
... style , no less than in the metre , of the Fabliaux . The Romaunce of the Rose is a translation of the long , allegorical poem bearing that title , begun by Guillaume de Lorris ( died 1260 ) , and continued by Jean de Meun . Chaucer ...
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Page 338 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 320 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 304 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 255 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 331 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 338 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 308 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 282 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 315 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.