A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 199
... ideal courtier must be the adviser of his prince , he must be a ' not young ' man , so that sensual love would be a disgrace to him . According to a stoical maxim no man can love and be wise . Castiglione sublimates and refines the ideal ...
... ideal courtier must be the adviser of his prince , he must be a ' not young ' man , so that sensual love would be a disgrace to him . According to a stoical maxim no man can love and be wise . Castiglione sublimates and refines the ideal ...
Page 499
... ideal is a sort of aristocratic republicanism . His philosophic ideal is a pagan , but unsuperstitious , elevation of spirit , partaking equally of the Stoic and the Epicurean . He loves to wrap his toga round him and assume a pose of ...
... ideal is a sort of aristocratic republicanism . His philosophic ideal is a pagan , but unsuperstitious , elevation of spirit , partaking equally of the Stoic and the Epicurean . He loves to wrap his toga round him and assume a pose of ...
Page 569
... ideal good . ' But this very ambiguity and this struggle with doubt are what gave him his special appeal to his age . Browning was in all things more confident and cheerful . The key to all his theology is love , as in ' Saul , ' and in ...
... ideal good . ' But this very ambiguity and this struggle with doubt are what gave him his special appeal to his age . Browning was in all things more confident and cheerful . The key to all his theology is love , as in ' Saul , ' and in ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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