Category: Classics of Literature
Even at the present day, the historian of Civilization in Europe and in France is amongst us, at the head of those historical studies which he formerly encouraged so much. I myself have experienced his kindness, learned by his conversation, consulted his books, and profited by...
We must look at this world more closely, and beneath the ideas which are developed seek for the living men; it is the theatre especially which is the original product of the Eng...
6. BOOK II.--THE RENAISSANCEFor seventeen centuries a deep and sad thought had weighed upon the spirit of man, first to overwhelm it, then to exalt and to weaken it, never losing its hold throughout this l...
5. book I. verse 242, etc.) One would think that he must have had some[Footnote 88: They themselves feel their impotence and decrepitude. Bede, dividing the history of the world into six periods, says that the fifth, which stretches from the retur...
4. BOOK I.--THE SOURCEAs you coast the North Sea from the Scheldt to Jutland, you will mark in the first place that the characteristic feature is the want of slope; marsh, waste, shoal; the rivers ha...
3. BOOK II.--THE RENAISSANCESECTION I.--Renaissance of Saxon Genius SECTION II.--The Earl of Surrey SECTION III.--Surrey's Style SECTION IV.--Development of Artistic Ideas SECTION V.--Wherein Lies the Stre...
8. Act I.[Footnote 720: In English, a word is wanting to express the French "fantaisie" used by M. Taine, in describing this scene: what in music is called a capriccio. Tennyson calls th...
1. VOLUME IEven at the present day, the historian of Civilization in Europe and in France is amongst us, at the head of those historical studies which he formerly encouraged so much. I mys...
2. BOOK I.--THE SOURCESECTION I.--The Coast of the North Sea SECTION II.--The Northern Barbarians SECTION III.--Saxon Ideas SECTION IV.--Saxon Heroes SECTION V.--Pagan Poems SECTION VI.--Christian Po...