A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... human life and knowledge . The impulse which made him write his treatise on the Astrolabe , and discourse eruditely on alchemy through the mouth of the Canon's Yeoman , dictated also that vast criticism of mediaeval life , the ...
... human life and knowledge . The impulse which made him write his treatise on the Astrolabe , and discourse eruditely on alchemy through the mouth of the Canon's Yeoman , dictated also that vast criticism of mediaeval life , the ...
Sivu 44
... humanity toward a purer and truer life . Prominent in the first vision of the A text is the picture of Lady Meed , who embodies the desire of worldly gain . Meed is betrothed to False ( Falsehood ) : Favel ( Duplicity ) prepares to give ...
... humanity toward a purer and truer life . Prominent in the first vision of the A text is the picture of Lady Meed , who embodies the desire of worldly gain . Meed is betrothed to False ( Falsehood ) : Favel ( Duplicity ) prepares to give ...
Sivu 50
... human touches ; thus , in the Règle , he describes his cowardice , and states that he was in the habit of taking boat at West- minster out of vanity , because the watermen called him Mister ' . In the later poems he relates , with ...
... human touches ; thus , in the Règle , he describes his cowardice , and states that he was in the habit of taking boat at West- minster out of vanity , because the watermen called him Mister ' . In the later poems he relates , with ...
Sivu 60
... human heart . Douglas's Whatever be the deficiencies in point of pure scholarship Version of or pure poetry of Douglas's version of Eneados of the most famose Poete Virgill ' , it remains a most notable work , being , indeed , the first ...
... human heart . Douglas's Whatever be the deficiencies in point of pure scholarship Version of or pure poetry of Douglas's version of Eneados of the most famose Poete Virgill ' , it remains a most notable work , being , indeed , the first ...
Sivu 69
... human and not super- Ballads of human , there is perhaps still greater beauty . In certain Love and ballads , as in Lord Thomas and Fair Annet , a woman — in this Death . case the ' nut - brown bride ' -murders her rival and is in turn ...
... human and not super- Ballads of human , there is perhaps still greater beauty . In certain Love and ballads , as in Lord Thomas and Fair Annet , a woman — in this Death . case the ' nut - brown bride ' -murders her rival and is in turn ...
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