Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to ShirleyWilliam Blackwood, 1885 - 382 páginas |
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... tion , of the Wars of the Roses with the decadence of English poetry in the fifteenth century ( chap . ii . sect . iii . ) ; and the " causes " of the development of the Elizabethan drama ( chap . vi . ) On these points I have tried to ...
... tion , of the Wars of the Roses with the decadence of English poetry in the fifteenth century ( chap . ii . sect . iii . ) ; and the " causes " of the development of the Elizabethan drama ( chap . vi . ) On these points I have tried to ...
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... tion to French influence ; the second , ending in 1384 , the supposed date of the " House of Fame , " comprising , as well as that work , his " Life of St Cecile " ( Second Nun's Tale ) , his " Parliament of Fowls , " his " Troilus and ...
... tion to French influence ; the second , ending in 1384 , the supposed date of the " House of Fame , " comprising , as well as that work , his " Life of St Cecile " ( Second Nun's Tale ) , his " Parliament of Fowls , " his " Troilus and ...
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... tion . And still more amusing and unworthy of the subject is the comparison of poor humanity struggling on through the dark world with uncertain footing , to a drunk man , drunk as a mouse , who knows that he has a house , but does not ...
... tion . And still more amusing and unworthy of the subject is the comparison of poor humanity struggling on through the dark world with uncertain footing , to a drunk man , drunk as a mouse , who knows that he has a house , but does not ...
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... tion was not called upon for many fragmentary contributions , but every now and then it received steady employment . What need had his readers for isolated touches of colour when their poet gave them such accumulations to revel in as ...
... tion was not called upon for many fragmentary contributions , but every now and then it received steady employment . What need had his readers for isolated touches of colour when their poet gave them such accumulations to revel in as ...
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... tion , Chaucer is superior to Homer . The comparison is not , perhaps , altogether fair , because Chaucer's themes , as a rule , admit of lighter treatment than Homer's : but certainly no poet could well be more animated than Chaucer ...
... tion , Chaucer is superior to Homer . The comparison is not , perhaps , altogether fair , because Chaucer's themes , as a rule , admit of lighter treatment than Homer's : but certainly no poet could well be more animated than Chaucer ...
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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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