History of English Literature volume 1
History of English Literature volume 1
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natural life : the one, sanctioning disorder, dissolved society ; the other, enthroning infatuation, perverted intelligence. Chivalry had need to be repressed because it issued in brigandage ; devotion restrained because it induced slavery. Turbulent feudalism grew feeble^ like oppressive theocracy ; and the two great master passions, deprived of their sap and lopped of their stem, gave place by their weakness to the monotony of habit and the taste for worldliness, which shot forth in their ste...ad and flourished under their name.
Gradually, the serious element declined, in books as in manners, in works of art as in books. Architecture, instead of being the handmaid of faith, became the slave of phantasy. It was exaggerated, became too ornamental, sacrificing general effect to detail, shot up its steeples to unreasonable heights, decorated its churches with canopies, pinnacles, trefoiled gables, open- work galleries. " Its whole aim was continually to climb higher, to clothe the sacred edifice with a gaudy bedizenment, as if it were a bride on her wedding morn- ing.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
natural life : the one, sanctioning disorder, dissolved society ; the other, enthroning infatuation, perverted intelligence. Chivalry had need to be repressed because it issued in brigandage ; devotion restrained because it induced slavery. Turbulent feudalism grew feeble^ like oppressive theocracy ; and the two great master passions, deprived of their sap and lopped of their stem, gave place by their weakness to the monotony of habit and the taste for worldliness, which shot forth in their ste...ad and flourished under their name.
Gradually, the serious element declined, in books as in manners, in works of art as in books. Architecture, instead of being the handmaid of faith, became the slave of phantasy. It was exaggerated, became too ornamental, sacrificing general effect to detail, shot up its steeples to unreasonable heights, decorated its churches with canopies, pinnacles, trefoiled gables, open- work galleries. " Its whole aim was continually to climb higher, to clothe the sacred edifice with a gaudy bedizenment, as if it were a bride on her wedding morn- ing.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Taine Hippolyte to read onlineMoreLess
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