Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... original in form , are animated throughout by the spirit of Jean de Meun . To say this is to produce a totally false impression as regards the decided individuality and pro- nounced English characteristics of Chaucer . He undoubt- edly ...
... original in form , are animated throughout by the spirit of Jean de Meun . To say this is to produce a totally false impression as regards the decided individuality and pro- nounced English characteristics of Chaucer . He undoubt- edly ...
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... original design , at least to some sort of symmetry ; but the explanation is more ingenious than sound . All Chaucer's works show that he was most intimately pervaded by chivalrous sentiment . Gower bears a message from Venus to Chaucer ...
... original design , at least to some sort of symmetry ; but the explanation is more ingenious than sound . All Chaucer's works show that he was most intimately pervaded by chivalrous sentiment . Gower bears a message from Venus to Chaucer ...
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... original much more closely than in the comic . In his comic tales , as Tyrwhitt says , " he is generally satisfied with bor- rowing a slight hint of his subject , which he varies , enlarges , and embellishes at pleasure , and gives the ...
... original much more closely than in the comic . In his comic tales , as Tyrwhitt says , " he is generally satisfied with bor- rowing a slight hint of his subject , which he varies , enlarges , and embellishes at pleasure , and gives the ...
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... original metre of the Roman de la Rose and nearly all the French fabliaux , and was the most common metre in English poetry during the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries . It is the prevailing form in Dr Morris's ' Specimens of ...
... original metre of the Roman de la Rose and nearly all the French fabliaux , and was the most common metre in English poetry during the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries . It is the prevailing form in Dr Morris's ' Specimens of ...
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... old romance ( apparently Ovid's Metamorphoses , ' in the original or in a French translation ) , and read the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone . A less skilful artist might have explained to us that his 30 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
... old romance ( apparently Ovid's Metamorphoses , ' in the original or in a French translation ) , and read the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone . A less skilful artist might have explained to us that his 30 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
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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
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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...