A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... Morality Play Court Influence - School plays - The Interlude Early Comedies and Tragedies — The influence of Plautus , Terence , and Seneca . CHAPTER XII ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE . The Beginnings : Fisher to Ascham - Lyly , Sidney ...
... Morality Play Court Influence - School plays - The Interlude Early Comedies and Tragedies — The influence of Plautus , Terence , and Seneca . CHAPTER XII ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE . The Beginnings : Fisher to Ascham - Lyly , Sidney ...
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... Moral Ode , a kind of versified sermon . Genesis and Exodus ( circa 1250 ) , a paraphrase of the opening books of the Bible , is written in octosyllabic couplets , the commonest metre of mediaeval poetry . From all this it will be seen ...
... Moral Ode , a kind of versified sermon . Genesis and Exodus ( circa 1250 ) , a paraphrase of the opening books of the Bible , is written in octosyllabic couplets , the commonest metre of mediaeval poetry . From all this it will be seen ...
Sivu 28
... moral or religious aim : others , especially those of the fabliau type , were frankly and sometimes grossly entertaining . In a work of larger scope the English tales of both these kinds would demand fuller notice : here we can do ...
... moral or religious aim : others , especially those of the fabliau type , were frankly and sometimes grossly entertaining . In a work of larger scope the English tales of both these kinds would demand fuller notice : here we can do ...
Sivu 29
... moral . Many of the tales existed in collections . Reference is made elsewhere in these pages to the Gesta Romanorum , but as the more current , and possibly the original , form of this huge work is Latin , it cannot here be discussed ...
... moral . Many of the tales existed in collections . Reference is made elsewhere in these pages to the Gesta Romanorum , but as the more current , and possibly the original , form of this huge work is Latin , it cannot here be discussed ...
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... moral inculcating endurance and trust in the Divine Will . There is much spirit in the description of the tempest beneath which the windes on the wonne water so wrastel together ' ; and there is a quaint portrait of the wylde walterande ...
... moral inculcating endurance and trust in the Divine Will . There is much spirit in the description of the tempest beneath which the windes on the wonne water so wrastel together ' ; and there is a quaint portrait of the wylde walterande ...
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