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Bayard Tuckerman A History Of English Prose Fiction (Fiscal Part I)

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In The Midst Of An Age Of Gloom And Anarchy, When Feudalism Was Slowly Building Up A New Social Organization On The Ruins Of The Roman Empire, Arose That Spirit Of Chivalry, Which, In Its Connection With The Christian Religion, Forms So Sharp A Division Between The Sentiments Of Ancient And Modern Times. Following Closely On The Growth Of Chivalry As An Institution, There Came Into Being A Remarkable Species Of Fiction, Which Reflected With Great Faithfulness The Character Of The Age, And Having Formed For Three Centuries The Principal Literary Entertainment Of The Knighthood Of Europe, Left On The New Civilization, And The New Literature Which Had Outgrown And Discarded It, Lasting Traces Of Its Natural Beauty. Into The General Fund Of Chivalric Romance Were Absorbed The Learning And Legend Of Every Land. [mehr]

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Bayard Tuckerman A History Of English Prose Fiction (Fiscal Part I)

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In The Midst Of An Age Of Gloom And Anarchy, When Feudalism Was Slowly Building Up A New Social Organization On The Ruins Of The Roman Empire, Arose That Spirit Of Chivalry, Which, In Its Connection With The Christian Religion, Forms So Sharp A Division Between The Sentiments Of Ancient And Modern Times. Following Closely On The Growth Of Chivalry As An Institution, There Came Into Being A Remarkable Species Of Fiction, Which Reflected With Great Faithfulness The Character Of The Age, And Having Formed For Three Centuries The Principal Literary Entertainment Of The Knighthood Of Europe, Left On The New Civilization, And The New Literature Which Had Outgrown And Discarded It, Lasting Traces Of Its Natural Beauty. [mehr]

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Bayard Tuckerman A History Of English Prose Fiction (Fiscal Part I)

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In The Midst Of An Age Of Gloom And Anarchy, When Feudalism Was Slowly Building Up A New Social Organization On The Ruins Of The Roman Empire, Arose That Spirit Of Chivalry, Which, In Its Connection With The Christian Religion, Forms So Sharp A Division Between The Sentiments Of Ancient And Modern Times. Following Closely On The Growth Of Chivalry As An Institution, There Came Into Being A Remarkable Species Of Fiction, Which Reflected With Great Faithfulness The Character Of The Age, And Having Formed For Three Centuries The Principal Literary Entertainment Of The Knighthood Of Europe, Left On The New Civilization, And The New Literature Which Had Outgrown And Discarded It, Lasting Traces Of Its Natural Beauty. Into The General Fund Of Chivalric Romance Were Absorbed The Learning And Legend Of Every Land. From The Gloomy Forests And Bleak Mountains Of The North Came Dark And Terrible Fancies, Malignant Enchanters, And Death-Dealing Spirits, Supposed To Haunt The Earth And Sea; From Arabia And The East Came Gorgeous Pictures Of Palaces Built Of Gold And Precious Stones, Magic Rings Which Transport The Bearer From Place To Place, Love-Inspiring Draughts, Dragons And Fairies; From Ancient Greece And Rome Came Memories Of The Heroes And Mysteries Of Mythology, Like Old Coins Worn And Disfigured By Passing, Through Ages, From Hand To Hand, But Still Bearing A Faint Outline Of Their Original Character. All This Mass Of Fiction Was Floating Idly In The Imaginations Of Men, Or Worked As An Embellishment Into The Rude Numbers Of The Minstrels, When The Mediaeval Romancers Gathered It Up, And Interweaving It With The Traditions Of Arthur And Charlemagne, Produced Those Strange Compositions Which Are So Entirely The Product And Repository Of The Habits, Superstitions, And Sympathies Of The Middle Ages That They Serve To "Hold The Mirror Up To Nature, To Show Vice Its Own Image, Virtue Its Own Likeness, And The Very Age And Body Of The Times, His Form And Pressure." The Men Who Wrote, And The Men Who Read These Romances, The First Springs Of Our Modern Fiction, Were Influenced By Two Dominant Ideas: "One Religious, Which Had Fashioned The Gigantic Cathedrals, And Swept The Masses From Their Native Soil To Hurl Them Upon The Holy Land; The Other Secular, Which Had Built Feudal Fortresses, And Set The Man Of Courage Erect And Armed Within His Own Domain."[1] These Two Ideas Were Outwardly Expressed In The Roman Church And The Feudal System. [mehr]

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Martin Farquhar Tupper The Complete Prose Works Of Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper (17 July 1810, London – November 1889, Albury, Surrey) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy. He was the eldest son of Dr. Martin Tupper (1780–1844), a medical man highly esteemed in his day who came from an old Guernsey family, by his wife Ellin Devis Marris (d. 1847), only child of Robert Marris (1749–1827), a landscape painter (by his wife Frances, daughter of the artist Arthur Devis). Martin Tupper received his early education at the Charterhouse. In due course of time he was transferred to Christ Church, Oxford where he took his degree of B.A. in 1832, of M.A. in 1835 and of DCL in 1847. At Christ Church, as a member of the Aristotle Class, he was a fellow student of many distinguished men, the Marquess of Dalhousie, the Earl of Elgin, William Ewart Gladstone and Francis Hastings Doyle. [mehr]

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Martin Farquhar Tupper The Complete Prose Works Of Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Martin Farquhar Tupper (17 July 1810, London – November 1889, Albury, Surrey) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.He was the eldest son of Dr. Martin Tupper (1780–1844), a medical man highly esteemed in his day who came from an old Guernsey family, by his wife Ellin Devis Marris (d. 1847), only child of Robert Marris (1749–1827), a landscape painter (by his wife Frances, daughter of the artist Arthur Devis). Martin Tupper received his early education at the Charterhouse. In due course of time he was transferred to Christ Church, Oxford where he took his degree of B.A. in 1832, of M.A. in 1835 and of DCL in 1847. At Christ Church, as a member of the Aristotle Class, he was a fellow student of many distinguished men, the Marquess of Dalhousie, the Earl of Elgin, William Ewart Gladstone and Francis Hastings Doyle. [mehr]

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