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... heroes to the music of their rude harps . * Goths who overrun Europe had their scalds or bards , who invoked the warlike Odin , and in lofty lyrics sang their wild and terrible legends and spirit stirring battle songs . The first poetry ...
... heroes to the music of their rude harps . * Goths who overrun Europe had their scalds or bards , who invoked the warlike Odin , and in lofty lyrics sang their wild and terrible legends and spirit stirring battle songs . The first poetry ...
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... heroes became few and occa- sional . Their bards degenerated in influence and cha- racter , and were afterwards known by the name of gleemen . The minstrels or gleemen were a peculiar class , whose province it was to wander from place ...
... heroes became few and occa- sional . Their bards degenerated in influence and cha- racter , and were afterwards known by the name of gleemen . The minstrels or gleemen were a peculiar class , whose province it was to wander from place ...
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... heroes : Charlemagne and Roland , Arthur and Merlin , Godfrey and Solyman , were favorites of their muse , and even the legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects . All was tinged with the religious and warlike enthusiasm ...
... heroes : Charlemagne and Roland , Arthur and Merlin , Godfrey and Solyman , were favorites of their muse , and even the legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects . All was tinged with the religious and warlike enthusiasm ...
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... Hero and Leander , and has left us some musical and unaffected songs which are still popular . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY , who , for his accomplishments and the similarity of their positions , has been compared to Surrey , was at once a hero ...
... Hero and Leander , and has left us some musical and unaffected songs which are still popular . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY , who , for his accomplishments and the similarity of their positions , has been compared to Surrey , was at once a hero ...
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... heroes of York and Lancaster are perhaps better qualified for the records of historic prose , than those of heroic verse . There is however a dignity and spirit in Daniel that must always rescue his works from neglect , and a purity and ...
... heroes of York and Lancaster are perhaps better qualified for the records of historic prose , than those of heroic verse . There is however a dignity and spirit in Daniel that must always rescue his works from neglect , and a purity and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneid affections allusion amidst angels appear battle beautiful Ben Johnson bird bold breath bright Canterbury Tales celebrated characters Chaucer composed composition Comus conceit court dark deep delight dignity doth eloquence ENGLISH POETRY eternal expression fair fancy feelings flowers fugitive verses gallantry genius Geoffrey Chaucer GILES FLETCHER gloomy glowing gold happy heart heaven heroes hire human images imagination Inner Temple inspiration John of Gaunt King language learning legends light literature lived lofty looked Lord mankind mighty Milton mind minstrels moral muse narration nature night Paradise Lost passions Petrarch poem poet poetical popular proud quaint refined reign religious rendered rhymes rise romance rose rude Saint Brandon sang Satan Saxon sentiment Shakspeare shew songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stanza stream sublime sustained sweet Temple thee tree truth unto verse virtues wanting wife of Bath wild wings Wynkyn de Worde zeal
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Página 38 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Página 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Página 99 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Página 101 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 39 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Página 103 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 77 - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
Página 101 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Página 103 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.