A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - 1150 páginas |
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... rhymes ; the " Ormulum " ( 1200-1237 ) , composed in regular metre , and in which allit- eration is entirely abandoned ; " Ancrenriwle " ( 1237 ) , containing a large number of Latin and Norman words and Saxon compounds ; and Robert of ...
... rhymes ; the " Ormulum " ( 1200-1237 ) , composed in regular metre , and in which allit- eration is entirely abandoned ; " Ancrenriwle " ( 1237 ) , containing a large number of Latin and Norman words and Saxon compounds ; and Robert of ...
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... Rhyme of Sir Thopas : " " Til that our Hoste ... loked upon me , And saide thus : What man art thou ? ' quod he . ' Thou lokest as thou woldest finde an hare , For ever on the ground I see thee stare . Approche nere , and loke up merily ...
... Rhyme of Sir Thopas : " " Til that our Hoste ... loked upon me , And saide thus : What man art thou ? ' quod he . ' Thou lokest as thou woldest finde an hare , For ever on the ground I see thee stare . Approche nere , and loke up merily ...
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... Rhyme of Sir Thopas , lines 6 , 7 ; Prologue to The Man of Lawes Tale , lines 47-88 ; House of Fame , book ii . , lines 106-152 ; Prologue to The Legend of Good Women , lines 29-207 ; Court of Love , stanzas I , 2 ; Goodly Ballad of ...
... Rhyme of Sir Thopas , lines 6 , 7 ; Prologue to The Man of Lawes Tale , lines 47-88 ; House of Fame , book ii . , lines 106-152 ; Prologue to The Legend of Good Women , lines 29-207 ; Court of Love , stanzas I , 2 ; Goodly Ballad of ...
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... Rhyme of Sir Thopas . " The numerous manu- script copies which are now extant prove that the work was popular even in Chaucer's time ; and the fact that it was printed in the year after the first press was brought into England by ...
... Rhyme of Sir Thopas . " The numerous manu- script copies which are now extant prove that the work was popular even in Chaucer's time ; and the fact that it was printed in the year after the first press was brought into England by ...
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... Rhyme Royal , or Short Chaucerian , em- ployed in " The Prioresses Tale " and " Compleynte to Pitié " formula a babbcc ; 4. Long Chaucerian , employed in " The Compleynte of Mars , " and like the Short Chau- cerian , with the ...
... Rhyme Royal , or Short Chaucerian , em- ployed in " The Prioresses Tale " and " Compleynte to Pitié " formula a babbcc ; 4. Long Chaucerian , employed in " The Compleynte of Mars , " and like the Short Chau- cerian , with the ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 510 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 191 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Página 212 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 295 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 191 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Página 194 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 132 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 531 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Página 237 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 191 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.