This may help to explain what can hardly fail to strike a reader of Chaucer and of the few contemporary remains of our literature.
But his protests against the war will last as long as our literature.
It is no exaggeration to say that they compose the most perfect manual in our literature, or in any literature, for one who approaches the study of public affairs, whether for knowledge or for practice.
Indeed it would be as preposterous to attempt any critical study of our Literature, without reference to the ancients, as it would be for a man to set up as an interpreter in Roman Literature without reference to the Greek.
Than the poignant pathos and beauty of "Pompilia," there is nothing more exquisite in our literature.
To me it seems that "The Ring and the Book" is, regarded as an artistic whole, the most magnificent failure in our literature.
Our literature--our novels and our poetry--have been as rigorously included in this development as all the other elements of our life.
In this respect they resemble our language, our blood, our literature, and our modes of thought and feeling.
The Elizabethan period of our literature was, in fact, the period during which we derived most from the Italian nation.
The Spenserian stanza, again, is a new and original metre peculiar to our literature; though it is possible that but for the complex structures of Italian lyric verse, it might not have been fashioned for the 'Faery Queen.
The great age of our literature--the age of Elizabeth--was essentially one of Italian influence.
The thought is constantly recurring in our literature.
Not one of the great histories, which have done honor to our literature, had appeared.
In the whole of our literature there is no more beautiful instance of the intercourse of the literary man and his wealthy neighbors than that of Cowper and the Throckmortons.
Finally, a great authoress of our time was urged by a friend to fill up a gap in our literature by composing a volume of Thoughts: the result was that least felicitous of performances, Theophrastus Such.
Bacon's essays are the unique masterpiece in our literature of this oracular wisdom of life, applied to the scattered occasions of men's existence.
Yet the wisdom of life has its full part in our literature.
When the splendid genius of Burke rose like a new sun into the sky, the times were happier, and nowhere in our literature does a noble prudence wear statelier robes than in the majestic compositions of Burke.
We are called a practical, hard-headed people, and so we are; but the most enduring part of our literature tells of the romantic ideals that Scotsmen have cherished and the chivalrous deeds they have done.
In their absence, I venture to return thanks most sincerely, but briefly, for the eloquent and sympathetic words with which the distinguished prelate has spoken of our literature.
And yet, though this be true of a large part of our literature, we have still great painters among us.
An immense class is growing up, and must every year increase, whose education will have made them alive to the importance of the masters of our literature, and capable of intelligent curiosity as to their performances.
A man of fashion he certainly was, but is best known in our literature as a comedian,--worshipping that comic Muse to whom Thackeray hesitates to introduce his audience, because she is not only merry but shameless also.
Our literature is as hospitable as the Hindoo pantheon; the great revolutionary has won a place even in our creed.
His influence on the destinies and history of our literature might be compared to the achievement of Napoleon while he was winning the victories that changed the map of Europe.
Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family, and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school?
A glance at the last section of Mr. Palgrave's Golden Treasury shows how large a place they occupy among the permanent jewels of our literature.
With this definition in mind, we are able to sketch the whole course of our literature, though in the frame of an essay only in outline.
But in the course of this half-century, conscientious research has so actively been prosecuted that we can now gain at least a bird's-eye view of the whole course of our literature.
Its chief doctrines have been stated by a thorough student of our literature: All that exists originates in God, the source of light eternal.
Such opinions are part and parcel of the vicissitudes of our literature, in themselves sufficient matter for an interesting book.
Never has the inspiration of those Muses been invoked without the most signal advantage, not only to our literature, but our language.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our literature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
