A History of the English People ...
Author : Elie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Elie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Great Britain
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Author : A Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136892990
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher :
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1909
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1926
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146550205X
The people that now occupies England was formed, like the French people, by the fusion of several superimposed races. In both countries the same races met and mingled at about the same period, but in different proportions and under dissimilar social conditions. Hence the striking resemblances and sharply defined contrasts that exist in the genius of the two nations. Hence also the contradictory sentiments which mutually animated them from century to century, those combinations and recurrences of esteem that rose to admiration, and jealousy that swelled to hate. Hence, again, the unparalleled degree of interest they offer, one for the other. The two people are so dissimilar that in borrowing from each other they run no risk of losing their national characteristics and becoming another's image; and yet, so much alike are they, it is impossible that what they borrowed should remain barren and unproductive. These loans act like leaven: the products of English thought during the Augustan age of British literature were mixed with French leaven, and the products of French thought during the Victor Hugo period were penetrated with English yeast. Ancient writers have left us little information concerning the remotest period and the oldest inhabitants of the British archipelago; works which would be invaluable to us exist only in meagre fragments. Important gaps have fortunately been filled, owing to modern Science and to her manifold researches. She has inherited the wand of the departed wizards, and has touched with her talisman the gate of sepulchres; the tombs have opened and the dead have spoken. What countries did thy war-ship visit? she inquired of the Scandinavian viking. And in answer the dead man, asleep for centuries among the rocks of the Isle of Skye, showed golden coins of the caliphs in his skeleton hand. These coins are not a figure of speech; they are real, and may be seen at the Edinburgh Museum. The wand has touched old undeciphered manuscripts, and broken the charm that kept them dumb. From them rose songs, music, love-ditties, and war-cries: phrases so full of life that the living hearts of to-day have been stirred by them; words with so much colour in them that the landscape familiar to the eyes of the Celts and Germans has reappeared before us.
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 1926
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 1895
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1926
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1968
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Edmund Kerchever Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Drama, Medieval
ISBN :
From the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.