Periods of European Literature, Volume 5C. Scribner's sons, 1901 |
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Page 52 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more. For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead. Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page vi - means the closing years of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth — the...
Page 280 - The cat would eat fish, but she will not wet her feet : She thinketh flesh with dry feet more sweet than fish with weet." l But this is comparatively rudimentary, and beyond it Heywood has no epigrammatic turn of words except a rather infantine punning. Perhaps the best turned of all his epigrams is the sombre comment on one of the old " Hendyng " proverbs : — " When bale is hext [highest] boot is next : though boot be nigh, What helpeth boot where bale is ever most high ? " But, as a rule, he...
Page ii - The criticism which alone can much help us for the future is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result.
Page 52 - Caledoniae quae mine feliciter orae Missa per innumeros sceptra tueris avos ; Quae sortem antevenis meritis, virtutibus annos, Sexum animis, morum nobilitate genus, Accipe (sed facilis) cultu donata Latino Carmina, fatidici nobile regis opus.
Page 38 - Lumine Aeon dextro, capta est Leonilla sinistro, Et potis est forma vincere uterque Deos ; Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede sorori, Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit ilia Venus.
Page 96 - ¡s mihi injuriam, quia feci cum bona opinione. Et non debetis credere , quod parvipendo vos , quod habetis paucos libros, quia scio, quod habetis multos libros. Quia vidi bene, quando fui in...
Page 59 - Latin yerse We may therefore, without impropriety, take a foreshortened view of these. During the rest of the sixteenth century, and during the greater part of the seventeenth, the language of the Eepublic of Letters held its place, and something more than its place. Nor were the results of its exercise, as they have been called by a rather unworthy sneer, a literature de colUge only.
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Page ii - X. The ROMANTIC REVOLT . . . Professor CE VAUOHAN. XI. The ROMANTIC TRIUMPH . . . TS OMOND. [Ready. XII. The LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY THE EDITOR. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. THE...