Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... called " Romance " was the theme of endless comment , criticism , and imitation . In planning his ' Tesoretto , ' Brunetto adopted the fashionable form : lost his way in a forest , found himself in the presence of Dame Nature , received ...
... called " Romance " was the theme of endless comment , criticism , and imitation . In planning his ' Tesoretto , ' Brunetto adopted the fashionable form : lost his way in a forest , found himself in the presence of Dame Nature , received ...
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... called " heroic verse " only when heroism is taken to imply a minimum of dignified feeling . There is , doubtless , a certain strenuousness in its movement when the matter is heavy ; it may be used to convey the impression of bold ...
... called " heroic verse " only when heroism is taken to imply a minimum of dignified feeling . There is , doubtless , a certain strenuousness in its movement when the matter is heavy ; it may be used to convey the impression of bold ...
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... called it , flowers of rhetoric , " the blossoms fresh of Tullius ' garden sweet , " upon the strength of comparing lovely women to roses and lilies , sunshine and spring , perennial as is the charm in thinking of such a likeness ...
... called it , flowers of rhetoric , " the blossoms fresh of Tullius ' garden sweet , " upon the strength of comparing lovely women to roses and lilies , sunshine and spring , perennial as is the charm in thinking of such a likeness ...
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... called a worthy knight ; but he is a blind dotard , long past knightly exercise and knightly feeling and his May , who is so easily won to play him false , is represented as a maiden of small degree . The rank of all the other befooled ...
... called a worthy knight ; but he is a blind dotard , long past knightly exercise and knightly feeling and his May , who is so easily won to play him false , is represented as a maiden of small degree . The rank of all the other befooled ...
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... called it " a vain amatorious poem . " He makes no distinction between wandering min- strels and other purveyors for idle luxury : he scorns them collectively with no less vehemence than the Puritans of the seventeenth century scorned ...
... called it " a vain amatorious poem . " He makes no distinction between wandering min- strels and other purveyors for idle luxury : he scorns them collectively with no less vehemence than the Puritans of the seventeenth century scorned ...
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admiration beauty Canterbury Canterbury Tales character Chaucer colour comedy Court Court of Love death Dekker delight doth drama dramatist edition Edward Elizabethan English expression eyes Faery Queen fair fancy favour feeling flowers genius Gorboduc Hamlet hath heart heaven hell Henry Hero and Leander heroes honour humour imagination imitation Italian Jean de Meun Jonson Julius Cæsar King lady language less lived look lovers ludicrous Lydgate Marlowe master ment mind Mirror for Magistrates moral nature never night Parliament of Birds passages passion personages plays poem poet poet's poetical poetry Prince probably prose revenge rhymes Richard Richard II romance satire scene seems sentiment Shakespeare shepherds song sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage stanza Stratford supposed Surrey sweet tale Tamburlaine tears thee things thou tion Tottel's Miscellany tragedy tragic translation Troilus Trouvères Venus verse wonder words write written wrote Wyatt youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 279 - 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 382 - 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 281 - 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 285 - 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 277 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Página 367 - 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 368 - 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...