Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... supposed that I am insensible to the value of what M. Taine has done for English literature . It may be , as one of his critics has said , that M. Taine has added little to the popular concep- tion of the Englishman , as expressed in ...
... supposed that I am insensible to the value of what M. Taine has done for English literature . It may be , as one of his critics has said , that M. Taine has added little to the popular concep- tion of the Englishman , as expressed in ...
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... supposed to have made his first acquaint- ance with Italian poetry , it is not to be questioned that he was most deeply indebted for general form , imagery , and characterisation to the Trouvères , whose language and works he must have ...
... supposed to have made his first acquaint- ance with Italian poetry , it is not to be questioned that he was most deeply indebted for general form , imagery , and characterisation to the Trouvères , whose language and works he must have ...
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... supposed to have been written . At any rate , a passage so uncertain must not stand in the way of the documen- tary evidence of the poet's marriage . What was the personal appearance of this soldier , scholar , courtier , poet , man of ...
... supposed to have been written . At any rate , a passage so uncertain must not stand in the way of the documen- tary evidence of the poet's marriage . What was the personal appearance of this soldier , scholar , courtier , poet , man of ...
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... supposed date of the " House of Fame , " comprising as well as that work , his " Life of St Cecile " ( Second Nun's Tale ) , his " Parliament of Fowls , " his " Troilus and Cresside , " and his first version of the Knight's Tale , and ...
... supposed date of the " House of Fame , " comprising as well as that work , his " Life of St Cecile " ( Second Nun's Tale ) , his " Parliament of Fowls , " his " Troilus and Cresside , " and his first version of the Knight's Tale , and ...
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... supposed to repre- sent the mourning Duke of Lancaster ; and thus , through the story of Ceyx and Alcyone , and the various scenes and incidents of the May morning , we reach the main subject of the poem . III . THE CHIEF QUALITIES OF ...
... supposed to repre- sent the mourning Duke of Lancaster ; and thus , through the story of Ceyx and Alcyone , and the various scenes and incidents of the May morning , we reach the main subject of the poem . III . THE CHIEF QUALITIES 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...