Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to ShirleyWilliam Blackwood, 1885 - 382 páginas |
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... stage . Contrast this engineering of Pandarus with the wooing of Anne by Richard III .; the deception of Othello by Iago ; the fooling of Ajax by Ulysses . These are all triumphs of active audacity as distinguished from patient intrigue ...
... stage . Contrast this engineering of Pandarus with the wooing of Anne by Richard III .; the deception of Othello by Iago ; the fooling of Ajax by Ulysses . These are all triumphs of active audacity as distinguished from patient intrigue ...
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... stages in the religious life . On exam- ination , we find that the visions are not consecutive . The first vision is a view of life by itself , designed to symbolise the cor- rupting influence of wealth ( " Lady Meed " ) , its frequent ...
... stages in the religious life . On exam- ination , we find that the visions are not consecutive . The first vision is a view of life by itself , designed to symbolise the cor- rupting influence of wealth ( " Lady Meed " ) , its frequent ...
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... stages erected in the churchyard or in the fields , or , as at Coventry , on movable stages wheeled from street to street . The actors were in some cases the brethren of a monastery , in some cases the members of a trade guild . The ...
... stages erected in the churchyard or in the fields , or , as at Coventry , on movable stages wheeled from street to street . The actors were in some cases the brethren of a monastery , in some cases the members of a trade guild . The ...
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... stage of dropping the couplet did not come on till after Milton . Elegiacs without any such appendage are found in the poems of Robert Greene . The chief feather in Surrey's plume as a verse - writer is his introduction of blank verse ...
... stage of dropping the couplet did not come on till after Milton . Elegiacs without any such appendage are found in the poems of Robert Greene . The chief feather in Surrey's plume as a verse - writer is his introduction of blank verse ...
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... stage did not feel these influences till later . The primitive English drama was as little affected by the causes that furthered the poetry of Wyat and Surrey as it had been a century and a half before , by the movement of which the ...
... stage did not feel these influences till later . The primitive English drama was as little affected by the causes that furthered the poetry of Wyat and Surrey as it had been a century and a half before , by the movement of which the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration beauty blank verse Canterbury Canterbury Tales character Chaucer colour comedy Coriolanus Court Crown 8vo death delight doth drama dramatist Elizabethan English expression eyes Faery Faery Queen fair fancy favour Fcap feeling flowers French genius Gorboduc Greene Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry Hero and Leander heroes honour humour Illustrations imagination imitation Italian John Jonson King Knight's Tale lady language less living look Lord lovers Marlowe mind Mirror for Magistrates moral nature never night passages passion personages Phaeton's plays poem poet poet's poetical poetry post 8vo Prince probably Queen reader revenge rhymes Richard Richard II romance satire scene Scotland seems Shakespeare Shakespeare's sonnets shepherds song sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage stanza Stratford supposed Surrey Surrey's sweet tale Tamburlaine thee things thou tion Tottel's Miscellany tragedy tragic translation Trouvères verse vols words write written wrote Wyat youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 210 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Página 212 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Página 278 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Página 308 - Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Página 289 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep : methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
Página 13 - Is. 6d. A Manual of Palaeontology, for the Use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology.
Página 278 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Página 115 - European expansion at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.
Página 214 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Página 7 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
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The Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe, Volume 2 John Edwin Bakeless Visualização de excertos - 1970 |
An Introduction to the Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism, the ... Charles Mills Gayley Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |