England, Literary and Social, from a German Point of ViewR. Bentley & son, 1875 - 442 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 35
Sivu 51
... society of the time ; whilst the Yeoman who accom- panies him is his free , but not knightly , serving- man , possibly his forest verderer or ranger . The " Reeve " belongs to a similar if somewhat higher circle of life , for which we ...
... society of the time ; whilst the Yeoman who accom- panies him is his free , but not knightly , serving- man , possibly his forest verderer or ranger . The " Reeve " belongs to a similar if somewhat higher circle of life , for which we ...
Sivu 52
... society of the middle ages in England , that we , if every other source were to be lost to us , out of this poem alone could build it up again . These worthy people are all present in the court and hall of the Tabard ' in order that ...
... society of the middle ages in England , that we , if every other source were to be lost to us , out of this poem alone could build it up again . These worthy people are all present in the court and hall of the Tabard ' in order that ...
Sivu 59
... the picture of manners of society at that time , and give the Poet an oppor- tunity of making the deceitful practice of the alchymists , already becoming a public calamity , a subject FROM A GERMAN POINT OF VIEW . 59.
... the picture of manners of society at that time , and give the Poet an oppor- tunity of making the deceitful practice of the alchymists , already becoming a public calamity , a subject FROM A GERMAN POINT OF VIEW . 59.
Sivu 62
... Society , the English Poet is more likely to have got the hint for his work than from Boccaccio . Cer- tainly it is beyond question , not only that he was acquainted with Italian literature , but also that it exercised a great influence ...
... Society , the English Poet is more likely to have got the hint for his work than from Boccaccio . Cer- tainly it is beyond question , not only that he was acquainted with Italian literature , but also that it exercised a great influence ...
Sivu 64
... society of that time depicted ; and therefore , with respect to the history of culture , the Decamerone ' has for the Italy of Boccaccio exactly the same im- portance which the Canterbury Tales ' claim for Chaucer's England . It can ...
... society of that time depicted ; and therefore , with respect to the history of culture , the Decamerone ' has for the Italy of Boccaccio exactly the same im- portance which the Canterbury Tales ' claim for Chaucer's England . It can ...
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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...