Category: Classics of Literature

History of English Literature Volume 2 (of 3)

SECTION I.--Decay of The Southern Civilizations SECTION II.--Luther and the Reformation in Germany SECTION III.--The Reformation in England SECTION IV.--The Anglicans SECTION V.--The Puritans SECTION VI.--John Bunyan

Chapters

8. Part I. canto 1. lines 821-834.

[Footnote 237: "Mr. Evelyn tells me of several of the menial servants of the Court lacking bread, that have not received a farthing wages since the King's coming in."--Pepys's D...

3. BOOK II.--THE RENAISSANCE

"I would have my reader fully understand," says Luther in the preface to his complete works, "that I have been a monk and a bigoted Papist, so intoxicated, or rather so swallowe...

4. book I., p. 83.

[Footnote 4: See, in Casanova's "Mémoires," the picture of this degradation. See also the "Mémoires" of Scipione Rossi, on the convents of Tuscany at the close of the eighteenth...

7. did. In all one writ, you find the scholar or the sophist; and in all

Fine rhetoric truly; it is sad that a passage so aptly turned should cover so many stupidities. All this appeared very triumphant; and the universal applause with which this fin...

6. BOOK III.--THE CLASSIC AGE

When we alternately look at the works of the court painters of Charles I and Charles II, and pass from the noble portraits of Vandyke to the figures of Lely, the fall is sudden...

2. BOOK III.--THE CLASSIC AGE

SECTION I.--The Excesses of Puritanism SECTION II.--A Frenchman's View of the Manners of the Time SECTION III.--Butler's Hudibras SECTION IV.--Morals of the Court SECTION V.--Me...

5. Book V. lines 731-742.

[Footnote 207: When Raphael comes on earth, the angels who are "under watch, in honour rise." The disagreeable and characteristic feature of this heaven is, that the universal m...

1. BOOK II--THE RENAISSANCE

SECTION I.--Decay of The Southern Civilizations SECTION II.--Luther and the Reformation in Germany SECTION III.--The Reformation in England SECTION IV.--The Anglicans SECTION V....