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âge âme anglais Angleterre arrive aujourd'hui barbare beau beauté belle besoin cæur caractère cause cent changé chant choses ciel civilisation commence conception conte corps côté coup cour dames devant Dieu différences donne enfants esprit façon femme figures fils fleurs fond font force forme générale gens Grèce guerre haut hommes humaine idées jeune joues jour juge jusqu'à l'amour l'autre l'esprit l'histoire l'homme l'un laisse langue large latin littérature livres long lui-même main maison mari ment milieu monde morale mort moyen nature naturel nobles nouvelle Pareillement parler passé passions pays peine pendant pensée père petits peuple philosophie place poëmes poésie poëte porte premier presque propre qu'à qu'un race regarder religion reste riche rien roses s'en s'est s'il saint sang Saxons seigneur semble sens sentiment sera seul siècle soleil sorte terre tête tion tour traits travers trouve tuer veut vivants Voilà voit Voyez vrai yeux
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Page 405 - ... 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 400 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
Page 323 - A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my love.
Page 357 - 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 444 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 405 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. 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...
Page 158 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 377 - This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is. Though parents grudge, and you, we're met, And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
Page 405 - For as water, whether it be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and...
Page 158 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 1 Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Hippolyte Taine |
| Author | Hippolyte Taine |
| Publisher | L. Hachette et cie, 1863 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 2404 pages |
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