Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to ShirleyW. Blackwood and sons, 1874 - 483 páginas |
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... doth me grace , and I shall ever be , While that my life may lasten and endure , To you as humble and low in each degree As possible is , and keep all things in secre , Right as yourselven listeth that I do , And else mine heartë motë ...
... doth me grace , and I shall ever be , While that my life may lasten and endure , To you as humble and low in each degree As possible is , and keep all things in secre , Right as yourselven listeth that I do , And else mine heartë motë ...
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... doth deal Under the King's broad seal ; And in the Chequer he them checks ; In the Star Chamber he nods and becks , And beareth him there so stout , That no man dare rout , Duke , Earl , Baron , nor Lord , But to his sentence must ...
... doth deal Under the King's broad seal ; And in the Chequer he them checks ; In the Star Chamber he nods and becks , And beareth him there so stout , That no man dare rout , Duke , Earl , Baron , nor Lord , But to his sentence must ...
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... Doth dance in their fore top . " The common people , he says ironically , are doubtless liars , slanderers , and railing rebels ; but they have much to say about the pride , venality , luxury , and debauchery of the clergy , both great ...
... Doth dance in their fore top . " The common people , he says ironically , are doubtless liars , slanderers , and railing rebels ; but they have much to say about the pride , venality , luxury , and debauchery of the clergy , both great ...
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... Doth exceed with his beamës clear , So doth her beauty above other appear . She is both good , aye wise , and virtuous , And also descended of a noble line ; Rich , comely , right meek , and bounteous ; All manner virtues in her clearly ...
... Doth exceed with his beamës clear , So doth her beauty above other appear . She is both good , aye wise , and virtuous , And also descended of a noble line ; Rich , comely , right meek , and bounteous ; All manner virtues in her clearly ...
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... jewel bred , And kiss the ground whereas thy corse doth rest . A head where wisdom mysteries did frame ; Whose hammers beat still in that lively brain , As on a stithe : where that some work of 152 RENAISSANCE AND TRANSITION .
... jewel bred , And kiss the ground whereas thy corse doth rest . A head where wisdom mysteries did frame ; Whose hammers beat still in that lively brain , As on a stithe : where that some work of 152 RENAISSANCE AND TRANSITION .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Æneid beauty blank verse Canterbury Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer colour comedy Court of Love death delight doth drama dramatist Elizabethan English expression eyes Faery Queen fair fancy favour feeling flowers French genius gentle Gorboduc Gower Greene Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry hero Hero and Leander honour humour imagination imitation Italian Jean de Meun Jonson King Knight's Tale knights lady language less lines lived look lovers ludicrous Lydgate Marlowe merry Mirror for Magistrates moral nature never Parliament of Birds passage passion Pembroke personages plays poem poet poet's poetical poetry praise probably revenge rhymes Richard Richard II romance rose satire seems sentiment Shakespeare shepherds sing song sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage stanza Stratford supposed Surrey Surrey's sweet tale Tamburlaine tears tender thee things thou tion tragedy translation Troilus Trouvères unto Venus verse wanton words write written wrote Wyatt youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 277 - 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 365 - 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 279 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Página 283 - 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 390 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Página 356 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Página 366 - 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 380 - 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 304 - Forsake thy king, and do but join with me, And we will triumph over all the world : I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about; And sooner shall the sun fall from his sphere Than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome.
Página 392 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.