The College Survey of English Literature: The early period. The sixteenth century. The seventeenth century. The eighteenth centuryBartlett Jere Whiting, Fred Benjamin Millett Harcourt, Brace, 1947 |
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... beauty which he praiseth so much , without the body , is a dream . " " Do you believe , Messer Morello , " quoth then Count Lodovico , " that beauty is always so good a thing as Messer Pietro Bembo speaketh of ? " and afterward will I ...
... beauty which he praiseth so much , without the body , is a dream . " " Do you believe , Messer Morello , " quoth then Count Lodovico , " that beauty is always so good a thing as Messer Pietro Bembo speaketh of ? " and afterward will I ...
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... beauty in the body , loseth this treasure and happiness as soon as the woman beloved with her departure leaveth the eyes with- out their brightness , and consequently the soul as a widow without her joy . For since beauty is far off ...
... beauty in the body , loseth this treasure and happiness as soon as the woman beloved with her departure leaveth the eyes with- out their brightness , and consequently the soul as a widow without her joy . For since beauty is far off ...
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... beauty , he may come into his wit to behold the beauty that is seen with the eyes of the mind , which then begin to be sharp and thorough - seeing , when the eyes of the body lose the flower of their sightliness . that sovereign ...
... beauty , he may come into his wit to behold the beauty that is seen with the eyes of the mind , which then begin to be sharp and thorough - seeing , when the eyes of the body lose the flower of their sightliness . that sovereign ...
Contents
THE APPROACH TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1 |
THE EARLY PERIOD | 7 |
BEOWULF | 11 |
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