Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... youth as Chaucer , in such a position as a vintner's son , may be sup- posed to have been taken into royal service . At any rate , it is ascertained that Chaucer began to bear arms — not the puissant pike , but the arms of a gentleman ...
... youth as Chaucer , in such a position as a vintner's son , may be sup- posed to have been taken into royal service . At any rate , it is ascertained that Chaucer began to bear arms — not the puissant pike , but the arms of a gentleman ...
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... youth he inclined more to the one , while in his old age , as was natural , he felt drawn more towards the other . If he had but a short tenure of the fresh May jollity of his Squire , he had an equally short tenure of the pedantic ...
... youth he inclined more to the one , while in his old age , as was natural , he felt drawn more towards the other . If he had but a short tenure of the fresh May jollity of his Squire , he had an equally short tenure of the pedantic ...
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... youth of the English muse . It may be dis- puted in which of the two stanzas the greatest quantity of English poetry has been written ; for while Troilus verse was used by many poets of the fourteenth cen- tury whose names even are ...
... youth of the English muse . It may be dis- puted in which of the two stanzas the greatest quantity of English poetry has been written ; for while Troilus verse was used by many poets of the fourteenth cen- tury whose names even are ...
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... youth at a time when the struggle for existence was less fierce , when there was no bitter feeling between high and low , no envenomed warfare . of civil or religious party . There never has been age nor country in which the fierce ...
... youth at a time when the struggle for existence was less fierce , when there was no bitter feeling between high and low , no envenomed warfare . of civil or religious party . There never has been age nor country in which the fierce ...
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... youth . And last of all came Mr Tenny- son , and pursued the unfortunate knight with bitter hatred and spiteful detraction , because he was the half - brother ( Mr Tennyson would say the full brother ) of Mordred ; and it suited the ...
... youth . And last of all came Mr Tenny- son , and pursued the unfortunate knight with bitter hatred and spiteful detraction , because he was the half - brother ( Mr Tennyson would say the full brother ) of Mordred ; and it suited the ...
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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...