122) §2. "The Anatomy of Melancholy". XIII. Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The attitude of a typical scholar of the day has been summed up by his modern biographer, If a great writer has said a thing, it is so. 3 It was the fashion of the...

123) §9. His Allegories. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of the shorter poems of Chaucer s English followers. There is, however, a difference of atmosphere. Dunbar s work is conditioned by the circumstance that it was written...

124) Ingemann, Bernhard Severin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Holger Danske (1837) became popular national songs, and the religious Morning and Evening Songs (1839) includes some of the finest lyric poetry in Danish....

125) 1234. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989
..."A Nation's Strength," stanzas 5 and 6.-Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. James Dalton Morrison, p. 459 (1948). Granger's Index to Poetry, 6th ed., p. 898 (1973)...

126) §9. "The Dream of the Rood". IV. Old English Christian Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...more than probable. The Dream of the Rood is the choicest blossom of Old English Christian poetry; religious feeling has never been more exquisitely clothed than...

127) §18. Miscellanies: "The Paradyse of Daynty Devises". VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...whose epitaph on Sir Edward Saunders the quotation of two lines will be a sufficient criticism: Who welnigh thirtie yeeres was Judge, before a Judge dyd fall, A judged...

128) §32. Odes, Songs and Hymns. I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...devoid of any personal note, and so short as to be of the nature of a chorale rather than a cantata, it solves its technical problem with notable skill, and the commanding...

129) §1. Drummond of Hawthornden. IX. The Successors of Spenser. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in finding an answer to great problems; he was not at all a reformer; he had no passionate wish to alleviate the sorrow of humanity. Therein lies at once his strength...

130) §4. The Attitude to Scholasticism of Duns Scotus and of Ockham. XIV. The Beginnings of English Philosophy. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and which was of the essence of orthodox scholasticism. Scotus was not himself heretical in religious belief, nor did he assert an antagonism between faith and reason;...