Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... heroes - notably Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , and Charlemagne and his Paladins , -and the passions and adventures , serious and comical , of inamoratos in every condition of life . The authors of this literature were as ...
... heroes - notably Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , and Charlemagne and his Paladins , -and the passions and adventures , serious and comical , of inamoratos in every condition of life . The authors of this literature were as ...
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... it partakes of the mistaken hero - worship that prompted Mr Massey to discredit Shake- speare with writing bawdy sonnets for the use of a friend . to have sobered down into becoming gravity , translating Boethius 14 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
... it partakes of the mistaken hero - worship that prompted Mr Massey to discredit Shake- speare with writing bawdy sonnets for the use of a friend . to have sobered down into becoming gravity , translating Boethius 14 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
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... heroes is plain : they are a carpenter , a miller , a summoner , a friar , and a merchant.1 The gentle order is respected . They join the company , and enjoy the ribald speech and behaviour of their riotous inebriated vul- gar ...
... heroes is plain : they are a carpenter , a miller , a summoner , a friar , and a merchant.1 The gentle order is respected . They join the company , and enjoy the ribald speech and behaviour of their riotous inebriated vul- gar ...
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... hero of the evening , the triumphant leader of coarse delights ; he is a moral spectacle , a warning to drunkards and ne'er - do - wells . Contrast Langland's treat- ment of him with Chaucer's treatment of the Cook , at the close of the ...
... hero of the evening , the triumphant leader of coarse delights ; he is a moral spectacle , a warning to drunkards and ne'er - do - wells . Contrast Langland's treat- ment of him with Chaucer's treatment of the Cook , at the close of the ...
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... hero of the poem , and the chief connecting link of the dreams , inasmuch as the author , once having seen him , is very desirous , in more than one of the subsequent dreams , to see him again . In describing the various personages of ...
... hero of the poem , and the chief connecting link of the dreams , inasmuch as the author , once having seen him , is very desirous , in more than one of the subsequent dreams , to see him again . In describing the various personages of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration beauty blank verse Canterbury Tales character Chaucer colour comedy comic Court Court of Love death Dekker delight doth drama dramatist edition 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 interludes Jean de Meun Jonson King lady language less lived look lovers ludicrous Lydgate Marlowe master ment merry 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 Surrey's sweet tale Tamburlaine tears thee things thou tion Tottel's Miscellany tragedy tragic translation Troilus Trouvères 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...