Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 1Hachette, 1891 |
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ANGL anglais Angleterre barbare bataille beau Beowulf bêtes bouclier Cædmon cent chanson chanson de Roland chanter Chaucer chevaliers chose ciel civilisation cœur conception conquête conte Contes de Cantorbéry corps coup Cressida dames Dieu épée esprit façon femme féodal fleurs force frères Froissart full gens Geoffroy Gaimar Germanie gold goût grete guerre hath Henri Henri de Huntingdon herte hire Högni hommes humaine idées instincts joueur de harpe jusqu'à king l'amour l'esprit l'histoire l'homme langue latin LITT littérature main maison ment mœurs monde morale mort moyen âge nation nobles Normands œuvres païens Pareillement pays pensée peuple philosophie Pictorial history poëmes poésie poëte poétique qu'un race religion reste right Robert de Brunne Robert de Gloucester Robert Wace Robin Hood rose saint sang Saxons Scaldes seigneurs sentiment seul siècle Sigurd soleil sorte Summe heo terre ther thou tion Troïlus vagues Voilà Warton Witenagemot yeomen yeux
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Page 361 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 391 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a...
Page 289 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 325 - So purely white they were, That even the gentle streame, the which them bare, Seem'd foule to them, and bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers...
Page 344 - 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.
Page 214 - And sikerly she was of greet desport, And ful plesaunt and amyable of port, And peyned hire to countrefete cheere Of Court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
Page 391 - 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...
Page xxxii - ... la matière est la même, et se compose également de forces, de directions et de grandeurs, on peut dire que dans les unes et dans les autres l'effet final se produit d'après la même règle.
Page xxxii - ... forces, de directions et de grandeurs, on peut dire que dans les unes et dans les autres l'effet final se produit d'après la même règle. Il est grand ou petit, selon que les forces fondamentales sont grandes ou petites et tirent plus ou moins exactement dans le même sens, selon que les effets distincts de la race, du milieu et du moment se combinent pour s'ajouter l'un à l'autre ou pour s'annuler l'un par l'autre. C'est ainsi que s'expliquent les longues impuissances et les éclatantes réussites...
Page 271 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.