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Pagina 3
... stories by Boccacio , Ser Gio- vanni , Cinthio and Bandello . And to the two last - named writers , Beaumont and Fletcher are as much indebted as they are to Gerardo and Cervantes . When Roger Ascham found the Lady Jane Grey in her ...
... stories by Boccacio , Ser Gio- vanni , Cinthio and Bandello . And to the two last - named writers , Beaumont and Fletcher are as much indebted as they are to Gerardo and Cervantes . When Roger Ascham found the Lady Jane Grey in her ...
Pagina 4
... stories , many of which Chaucer borrowed from Boccacio and the imitators of the Italian novelists , and which were joined together , so as to become parts of one great tale , after the model of the " Decameron . " Though the novel ...
... stories , many of which Chaucer borrowed from Boccacio and the imitators of the Italian novelists , and which were joined together , so as to become parts of one great tale , after the model of the " Decameron . " Though the novel ...
Pagina 4
... stories , many of which Chaucer borrowed from Boccacio and the imitators of the Italian novelists , and which were joined together , so as to become parts of one great tale , after the model of the “ Decameron . ” Though the novel ...
... stories , many of which Chaucer borrowed from Boccacio and the imitators of the Italian novelists , and which were joined together , so as to become parts of one great tale , after the model of the “ Decameron . ” Though the novel ...
Pagina 13
... story . " THE PALMER'S TALE . " In those daies when Palmerin reigned King of Great Britanie , famoused for his deedes of chivalrie , there dwelled in the cittie of Caerbranke , a gentleman of an anncient house , called Francesco , a man ...
... story . " THE PALMER'S TALE . " In those daies when Palmerin reigned King of Great Britanie , famoused for his deedes of chivalrie , there dwelled in the cittie of Caerbranke , a gentleman of an anncient house , called Francesco , a man ...
Pagina 22
... story at the conclusion of the harmony . " Having thus chaunted over his ode , hee heard the chamber doore open , whereupon he grew melancholie : but when he saw the goddesse of his affection , on whose constant loyalty depended the ...
... story at the conclusion of the harmony . " Having thus chaunted over his ode , hee heard the chamber doore open , whereupon he grew melancholie : but when he saw the goddesse of his affection , on whose constant loyalty depended the ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Volledige weergave - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Volledige weergave - 1858 |
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Pagina 81 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Pagina 62 - But, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, the culture of the female mind seems to have been almost entirely neglected. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was regarded as a prodigy. Ladies highly born, highly bred, and naturally...
Pagina 154 - Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Pagina 215 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and...
Pagina 199 - Talking of widows — pray, Eliza, if ever you are such, do not think of giving yourself to some wealthy Nabob, because I design to marry you myself. My wife cannot live long, and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour.
Pagina 202 - I come off conqueror my spirits are fled 'tis a bad omen do not weep my dear Lady — your tears are too precious to shed for me bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women ! may health, peace, and happiness prove your handmaids. If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemn'd which my heart, not my head betray'd me into.
Pagina 139 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.
Pagina 9 - How am I crost, or whence is this curse ? Even from hence, the men that should employ such as I am, are enamoured of their own wits...
Pagina 47 - Hill; it stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world...
Pagina 71 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...