Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to ShirleyW. Blackwood and sons, 1874 - 483 páginas |
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... living spirit of them . The tendency of all archaisms , as I shall point out more fully in the case of Chaucer , is to impart into the text a sentiment of old age and childishness , very delightful in itself , but not so favourable to ...
... living spirit of them . The tendency of all archaisms , as I shall point out more fully in the case of Chaucer , is to impart into the text a sentiment of old age and childishness , very delightful in itself , but not so favourable to ...
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... living world— farther and farther back into a dim distance from indignant tears and frowns . But Chaucer is the opposite of a dreamy poet ; his feelings are fresh and quick , his expression direct and demonstrative ; he pities Dido ...
... living world— farther and farther back into a dim distance from indignant tears and frowns . But Chaucer is the opposite of a dreamy poet ; his feelings are fresh and quick , his expression direct and demonstrative ; he pities Dido ...
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... living of Great Braxted , in Essex . He was the most widely - read scholar of his age ; saw but little of the Court ; had a recluse's peevishness and unfavourable views of life ; and a recluse's pleasure in rank - flavoured tales . One ...
... living of Great Braxted , in Essex . He was the most widely - read scholar of his age ; saw but little of the Court ; had a recluse's peevishness and unfavourable views of life ; and a recluse's pleasure in rank - flavoured tales . One ...
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... living wretch , " who probably " laid the foundation for his royal pupil's grossest crimes . " This is not merely judging without allowance from Skelton's writings , but taking for granted as gospel truth all the mythical tales that ...
... living wretch , " who probably " laid the foundation for his royal pupil's grossest crimes . " This is not merely judging without allowance from Skelton's writings , but taking for granted as gospel truth all the mythical tales that ...
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... living wretch " was a penetrating observer , and might have been a sage counsellor . In Skel- ton's writings , however , it is not to be denied that the extra- vagantly ludicrous intrudes itself on every other quality ; before he can go ...
... living wretch " was a penetrating observer , and might have been a sage counsellor . In Skel- ton's writings , however , it is not to be denied that the extra- vagantly ludicrous intrudes itself on every other quality ; before he can go ...
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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
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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.