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History ofEnglish Literature, by George
Saintsbury
History ofEnglish Literature, by George Saintsbury 1
"For if your flowering heart ... into
English by another hand, but his HistoryofEdward V. was not a mean contribution to English prose.
Tyndale's New Testament had given a new and powerful impulse to the reading of English; ... qualities of
euphony and rhythm possessed by English. It is, however, quite certain that nothing was further from
Hooker's thoughts than the composition ofEnglishliterature merely as English literature. ...
... most representative poet of the Church of England, and second the influence of Donne, who was a close
friend of his mother. The titles of most of the poems, often consisting of a single word, are ... basis for making English poetry admittedly the greatest in the modern world.
THE ENGLISH DIALECTS. The study of the literatureof the period is further complicated by the division of
English into ... in many respects the greatest lyric period
in the historyofEnglish or perhaps of any literature. Still grander, to be sure, by the nature of the two forms,
was the Elizabethan achievement in...
... Whately on Jests Nature of Puns Effect of Custom and Habit Accessory
Emotion Disappointment and Loss Practical Jokes 307
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CHAPTER ... often heard of the attempts of whining lovers; of the charming poems they had composed in praise of
their mistresses' wit and beauty (tho' they have not had half so much of either of ... post of secretary of Legation at the
Hague, in which office he gave so much satisfaction to William III. that he made him one of his gentlemen of
the bed chamber. He became afterwards Secretary of...
... ofEnglish events (reign of George III.) may be traced in any of the English histories mentioned on
p. 60. For the Englishliteratureof the period; see the author's HistoryofEnglish Literature.
Valuable ... Team.
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
BY REUBEN POST HALLECK, M.A. (YALE) AUTHOR OF " ;HISTORY OFENGLISH LITERATURE& quot;
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PREFACE
The wide use of the ... biographies of Washington by
Lodge, of Franklin by Morse, of Hamilton by Lodge, and of Jefferson by Morse. (American Statesmen
Series.)
LITERARY
Tyler's The Literary Historyof the American Revolution,...
... points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the
truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. ... HistoryofEnglish Romanticism in the
Nineteenth Century
The Project Gutenberg eBook, A HistoryofEnglish Romanticism in the
Nineteenth Century, by Henry A. Beers
This eBook is for the use of ... volume of his " ;History ofEnglish Poetry" (1781), Thomas Warton had spoken of the "Divine
Comedy" as "this wonderful compound of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan...
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History of French Literature, byEdward Dowden
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anywhere at ... towards a new and
profounder conception of the life of societies or of humanity. By Turgot for the first time the idea of progress
was accepted as the ruling principle of history. It cannot be ... degenerate Italian literature, super-subtleties from
Spain these had still their votaries. And the conduct of life and characters of men of letters were often
unworthy of the vocation they professed. "La...
... of agriculture at the time of Domesday was apparently very low, judging by
the small returns of manors,[75] but by the time ofEdward I it had made considerable
progress. During the reign of ...
demesnes of a quantity of manors, as was the custom, and kept thereon great flocks of
sheep, ranging from 300 to 1,500 on each manor.[127] The stock of the Bishop of
Winchester, by an inquisition ... prince with courts of his own, the arbiter of his tenants'
rights as well as owner of the land.
One of the most striking features of the Domesday survey is the large quantity of
arable land...
... majesty’s realm hath more plenty of ships,
boats, crays, and other vessels, by reason of those which by hope of lucre
do follow that trade of living.
Note the blend of the religious and the practical ... still done in parts of Europe)
offers an interesting little insight into one of the more uncomfortable
aspects of medieval life. One of the chores of the yeoman usher and
grooms of the hall was to ... dynasty, and it is the matriarchal head of that dynasty, Margaret
Beaufort, mother of the new king Henry VII, who has an important if
indirect place in the historyofEnglish food: among her many other
claims...
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literature ... much
of it was pagan in origin. The result of this cooperation can best be evalu-
ated by taking a closer look at the literature itself.
It is impossible to know how much of the literatureof medieval ... admiration of bravery or splendor, the terror of battles and birds of
prey, and also, in the case of more personal poetry, feelings of love or hate,
joy or sorrow.
The more intricate forms of line...
... Old English. Migration of people and
the consequent relocation of the languages they speak will therefore be one of
the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre -history of
English ... single-volume history, the Oxford HistoryofEnglish is, of course, inevit-
ably selective. It oVers, however, the invitation to rethink various aspects of the
history for the English language—to ... Middle English respect-
ively, it is the working-out of change in progress of transitions in usage—which
preoccupies other chapters. The historyofEnglish is, in this sense, not a series of
static...
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A Brief Historyof the English Language and
by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2), by John Miller ... and
disastrous reign ofEdward II.; the long and prosperous rule for fifty years ofEdward III.; the troubled
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A BRIEF HISTORY
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by
J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN, M.A.
Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Boston...