A Literary History Of The English People 2 From The Renaissance To The Civil War 1 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...amuse themselves too much: "In England many there are that have been blamed, the report goes, I know not whether it is wrongly or rightly." 2 C Owing to the attention paid to physical beauty in England, sculptors now begin--a rare thing at that time--to have living models, and to copy the nude In the abbey of Meaux, "Melsa," near Beverley, on the banks of the Humber, was seen in the fourteenth century a sight that would have been rather sought for by the banks of the Arno, under the indulgent sky of Italy. The abbot Hugh of Leven having ordered a new crucifix for the convent chapel, the artist " had always a naked man under his eyes, and he strove to give to his crucifix the beauty of form of his model." 1 1 The verses of the Black Prince (below, page 353) are found in his will, together with minute details concerning the carvings with which his tomb must be adorned, and the manner he wishes to be represented on it, "tout armez de fier de guerre." Stanley, "Historical Memorials of Canterbury," 1885, p. 133. The tomb of Richard II. at Westnvnster was built in his lifetime and under his eyes. The original indentures have been preserved, by which "Nicholas Broker et Godfrey Prest, citeins et copersmythes de Loundres" agree to have the statues of.Richard and Anne made, such as they are seen today with "escriptures en tour la dite toumbe," April 14, 1395. Another contract concerns the marble masonry; both are in the Record Office, "Exchequer Treasury of the recipt," " Miscellanea," 3/40. '"Le livre du chevalier de la Tour Landry pour l'enseignement de ses filles," ed Montaiglon, Paris, 1854, 12mo, pp. 46 and 98, written in 1371. One last trait...