Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 1L. Hachette et cie, 1863 - 2409 páginas |
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Alcuin âme ANGL anglais Angleterre barbare bataille beau beauté Ben Jonson Beowulf bright cent chanson chanson de Roland chant Chaucer chevalerie chevaliers choses ciel civilisation cœur conception conte Contes de Cantorbéry corps coup Cressida dames Dieu dieux doth enfants épée esprit façon femme féodal fleurs force full gens gold goût guerre Guillaume de Malmesbury hath Henri hire Högni hommes humaine idées instincts jour jusqu'à l'amour l'esprit l'homme langue latin LITT littérature live lord love main ment mœurs monde morale mort moyen âge nation nobles normande œuvres païen Pareillement passions peinture pensée Pétrarque peuple philosophie Pictorial history poëmes poésie poëte poétique premier qu'un race religion Renaissance reste rien Robert de Brunne Robert de Gloucester Robert Wace Robin Hood roses saint sang Saxons Scaldes seigneur sentiment seul Shakspeare siècle sorte style sweet terre tête ther thou tion trouve unto Voilà white yeomen yeux
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Página 405 - ... for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Página 400 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
Página 323 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Página 357 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Página 444 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 405 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 158 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 377 - This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. Though parents grudge, and you, we're met, And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
Página 405 - For as water, whether it be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and...
Página 158 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.