It is doubtful if the researches into Oriental histories and literatures by the Russians have been yet adequately appreciated in England, the tireless efforts of Dr.
I reserve for the Second Part of this book some observations on the Russian language with reference to Orientalism, and Arabic and Persian literatures in particular.
It should be added that those dramatic literatureswhich freely admit of a mixture of the serious with the comic element thereby enormously increase the opportunities of varied characterization.
As the individual study of different literatures deepens and widens, these surveys may be more and more difficult: they may have to be made more and more "by allowance.
The great names of Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide hardly meet with any others in these literaturesrepresenting writers who are known abroad as well as at home.
These may seem at first to be no sufficient reason for treating together two suchliteratures as those named in the title of this chapter.
One of them--the influence of the literatures of France, both Southern and Northern--is quite certain and incontestable.
Unlike the literatures of other European countries, which followed, in a more or less regular way, the development of life and civilization during historic times, Russian literature passed through none of these stages.
While they were in progress Longfellow offered his resignation of the Smith Professorship "of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures .
His wide reading of foreign literatures gave the keys to an understanding of the peoples among whom he traveled, and especially to an understanding of Roman culture.
What he did for his students was to share with them his own broad experience of life and letters and to show them how the study of foreign literatures was one with the study of history and philosophy.
Both literatures have the sanctuary hymn, and the processional and the recessional hymn.
It is of some importance to recognize, although the fact is by no means surprising, that the situations in life out of which the hymnal literatures grew were quite similar in Assyria and in Israel.
Likewise the hymns of both literatures have been seen to take on more decided liturgical character with the introduction of the divine pronouncement through the priest as in the Litany to Asshur and the second Psalm.
Single phrases in the great scenes of the Sagas are full-charged with meaning to a degree hardly surpassed in any literature, certainly not in the literatures of medieval Europe.
The Sagas differ from all other "heroic" literatures in the larger proportion that they give to the meannesses of reality.
The peculiar element in scripture is the spirit and religious atmosphere which permeate all its parts and give to the Bible a unique place among the literatures of the world.
There is in the former abundant evidence of the activity of a Spirit whose presence is less manifest in the sacred literatures of other ancient nations.
These investigations have shown the Old Testament to be a peculiarly unique book when compared with other sacred literatures of antiquity.
The more we know of other literatures of antiquity, the more evident it becomes that even from the literary viewpoint the Old Testament is far superior to any other literary remains of ancient civilization.
The literatures of all Moslem peoples are largely inspired by Arabic, which has produced a voluminous collection of works in prose and poetry.
The chief original literatures are Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Arabic and Persian.
The nuggets of wisdom that are dug out of the Oriental and remote literatures would often prove to be only commonplace if stripped of their quaint setting.
Undoubtedly Olin Brad was a clever fellow, uncommonly well read in the surface literatures of foreign origin, and had a keen interest in what he called the metaphysics of his own time.
All we thought of asking was that allowance should be made for this expression and these peculiarities, as it would be made in case of other literatures and peoples.
Their affiliation is rather with the new literatures of France, of Russia, of Spain, than with the modern fiction of England.
Literatures were thus condemned to be hostile, because they were not lofty enough to overlook the boundaries of the narrow circles in which they moved.
The "gay science" perished utterly; the very language in which the sonnets of knight and troubadour had been composed died away from the literatures of the earth; and Rome rejoiced in the destruction of poetry and the restoration of obedience.
Of all European literatures the French is, by general consent, that which possesses the most uniformly fertile, brilliant, and unbroken history.
French literature, notwithstanding the revolution of fifty years ago, is generally and rightly held to be the chief representative among the greater European literatures of the classical rather than the romantic spirit.
At the present time, despite the great advance made by otherliteratures and a certain falling off in itself, French prose is on the average superior in formal merit to any other prose written in a modern language.
In every country at any one time there are in all probability not one but several literatures flourishing.
The child was discovered at different periods in the literatures of different countries; in England, for instance, much earlier than in France.
With the fourteenth century the real history of the European literatures begins.
This, the most ancient of the literatures of the world, is spread over the immense surfaces of ancient temples and tombs, and stored up in masses of papyrus rolls, much of which is still to be explored.
Notwithstanding her central position, France has been a very isolated country intellectually, much more isolated than England, more isolated even than Transylvania, where foreign literaturesare familiar to the cultivated classes.
The strongest of all the reasons in favor of the study of the dead languages and the literatures preserved in them, has always appeared to me to consist in the more perfect disinterestedness with which we moderns can approach them.
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