England, Literary and Social, from a German Point of ViewR. Bentley & son, 1875 - 442 sivua |
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Sivu 61
... Christianity , who lived in the twelfth century , and whose book , a col- lection of tales and moral meditations in Latin prose , translated later into French verse under the title Castoiement d'un père à son fils , ' was much in vogue ...
... Christianity , who lived in the twelfth century , and whose book , a col- lection of tales and moral meditations in Latin prose , translated later into French verse under the title Castoiement d'un père à son fils , ' was much in vogue ...
Sivu 65
... Christian world has woman occupied such a degraded position as at the time of the Minne- sänger and love courts . Whilst in poetry woman's favour and the grace of love was the theme re- peated , even to tediousness , in reality women ...
... Christian world has woman occupied such a degraded position as at the time of the Minne- sänger and love courts . Whilst in poetry woman's favour and the grace of love was the theme re- peated , even to tediousness , in reality women ...
Sivu 182
... Christian Hero , ' who wrote his wife the tenderest letters from the debtor's prison . Pope also used to come to Button's Coffee - house , till one day he was soundly beaten with a birch stick by Ambrose Philips , the pastoral poet , on ...
... Christian Hero , ' who wrote his wife the tenderest letters from the debtor's prison . Pope also used to come to Button's Coffee - house , till one day he was soundly beaten with a birch stick by Ambrose Philips , the pastoral poet , on ...
Sivu 206
... Christian integrity than two or three stars or garters . Although this club , like the former , was founded to bring together a number of friends on stated days to the pleasures of the table , and not with any political object , yet ...
... Christian integrity than two or three stars or garters . Although this club , like the former , was founded to bring together a number of friends on stated days to the pleasures of the table , and not with any political object , yet ...
Sivu 268
... Christian child in Lincoln was crucified by them . The boy Hugo is running about playing at ball , when the Jew's daughter entices him towards her with an apple : - " And scho has taine out a little pen knife , And low down by her gair ...
... Christian child in Lincoln was crucified by them . The boy Hugo is running about playing at ball , when the Jew's daughter entices him towards her with an apple : - " And scho has taine out a little pen knife , And low down by her gair ...
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Abbey appeared Athenæum Beau Brummel beautiful Blackfriars Theatre blue called Canterbury Canterbury Tales castle Cathedral century Chaucer Christian church City club coach coffee coffee-houses colour Countess Court Cromwell D'Israeli dark Duke England English famous favour Furness Abbey garden gentleman Geoffrey Chaucer German Globe Theatre green ground hand highroad honour horses house of Rothschild Jewish Jews Kent King lady lake land literature London Lord Menasseh Menasseh ben Israel ment mountains Nathan Meyer Ned Ward neighbourhood never Newby Bridge night nobility noble once palace Parliament Paul's play poem poet poetry political present day Prince Queen railway rich road Rothschild Samson Gideon says scarcely Shakspeare Shakspeare's side smoke society Spectator stage stands stone stood streets Tatler tavern theatre tion took town traveller trees walls Whigs whilst whole wonderful words young
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Sivu 69 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Sivu 180 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of (\. ' Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St. James's Coffee-house; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Sivu 181 - This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Sivu 19 - At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road ; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.
Sivu 171 - I first of all called in at St. James's, where I found the whole outward Room in a Buzz of Politics. The Speculations were but very indifferent towards the Door, but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the Room, and were so...
Sivu 361 - On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides.
Sivu 314 - The points of difference between Christianity and Judaism have very much to do with a man's fitness to Je a bishop or a rabbi. But they have no more to do with his fitness to be a magistrate, a legislator, or a minister of finance, than with his fitness to be a cobbler.
Sivu 123 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Sivu 27 - Some menacing expressions which they had dropped gave a suspicion of their design ; and the king dispatched a messenger after them, charging them to attempt nothing against the person of the primate : but these orders arrived too late to prevent their fatal purpose.
Sivu 246 - The two great national theatres on one side, a churchyard full of mouldy but undying celebrities on the other ; a fringe of houses studded in every part with anecdote...