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... Italian cardinals elected and obeyed Urban VI . , those attached to the interests of France chose Clement VII . Urban was acknowledged in England , but he had too much employment at home to prosecute an English heretic . For the next ...
... Italian cardinals elected and obeyed Urban VI . , those attached to the interests of France chose Clement VII . Urban was acknowledged in England , but he had too much employment at home to prosecute an English heretic . For the next ...
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... Italian or a French priest should domineer over their country and their king , and they little liked that his representa- tives , though Englishmen , should usurp such power . They would not have a priest to rule over them . When Wiclif ...
... Italian or a French priest should domineer over their country and their king , and they little liked that his representa- tives , though Englishmen , should usurp such power . They would not have a priest to rule over them . When Wiclif ...
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... Italian ( Dante ) Lately deceased . " Go , little book , " wrote the poet- 6 66 ' go , little tragedy , Where God my maker , yet ere that I die , So send me might to make some comedy . " Sixteen or seventeen years more elapse , and the ...
... Italian ( Dante ) Lately deceased . " Go , little book , " wrote the poet- 6 66 ' go , little tragedy , Where God my maker , yet ere that I die , So send me might to make some comedy . " Sixteen or seventeen years more elapse , and the ...
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... Italian language , of the story in question , ' Griselda ; ' and why did Chaucer , if he is not referring to an actual ... Italy . The strong probability therefore is , that he did know the lan- guage , and was perfectly well acquainted ...
... Italian language , of the story in question , ' Griselda ; ' and why did Chaucer , if he is not referring to an actual ... Italy . The strong probability therefore is , that he did know the lan- guage , and was perfectly well acquainted ...
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... very clear passage in an Italian writer of the seventeenth century . Alessandro Tassoni , * Sketches of the Hist . of Literature and Learning in England . ' 6 author of the mock - heroic poem ' JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND . 41.
... very clear passage in an Italian writer of the seventeenth century . Alessandro Tassoni , * Sketches of the Hist . of Literature and Learning in England . ' 6 author of the mock - heroic poem ' JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND . 41.
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Seite 53 - WITH how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Seite 118 - And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Seite 54 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Seite 52 - Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburn'd brain.
Seite 48 - I hope, for the father's sake, it will be pardoned, perchance made much of, though in itself it have deformities. For indeed, for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled. Your dear self can best witness the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence ; the rest by sheets sent unto you as fast as they were done.
Seite 137 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 54 - Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king...
Seite 62 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me...
Seite 45 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Seite 22 - O place of bliss! renewer of my woes! Give me account, where is my noble fere? Whom in thy walls thou dost each night enclose; To other lief; but unto me most dear." Echo, alas! that doth my sorrow rue, Returns thereto a hollow sound of plaint. Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine, with bondage and restraint: And with remembrance of the greater grief, To banish the less, I find my chief relief.