Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to ShirleyW. Blackwood and sons, 1874 - 483 páginas |
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... never the neer.2 For there is physician but one That may me heal . - But that is done : Pass we over until eft : 3 That will not be must needs be left . Our first matter is good to keep . " Now this was not written before 1369 ; and if ...
... never the neer.2 For there is physician but one That may me heal . - But that is done : Pass we over until eft : 3 That will not be must needs be left . Our first matter is good to keep . " Now this was not written before 1369 ; and if ...
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... never with none of them debate . I never them contraried truëly . I wot well that my lord can more than I , What that he saith I hold it firm and stable ; I say the same or elles thing semblable . A full great fool is any counsellor ...
... never with none of them debate . I never them contraried truëly . I wot well that my lord can more than I , What that he saith I hold it firm and stable ; I say the same or elles thing semblable . A full great fool is any counsellor ...
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... never staying too long upon one topic . If he had equally ready command of his resources for the pur- pose of keeping people in good - humour face to face with himself , no wonder though the king found him useful in embassies . Perhaps ...
... never staying too long upon one topic . If he had equally ready command of his resources for the pur- pose of keeping people in good - humour face to face with himself , no wonder though the king found him useful in embassies . Perhaps ...
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... never , therefore , be quite satisfactory to compare a dramatist , as regards knowledge of character , with an epic poet , and that , too , an epic poet whose peculiar province is the epic of manners and character . Although ...
... never , therefore , be quite satisfactory to compare a dramatist , as regards knowledge of character , with an epic poet , and that , too , an epic poet whose peculiar province is the epic of manners and character . Although ...
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... never heard before . Partly in game , he vows to make Morpheus a present of a bed of down , if only he may obtain an evi- dence of his divinity . Scarcely had he breathed this vow when he fell asleep . Next comes the dream , the opening ...
... never heard before . Partly in game , he vows to make Morpheus a present of a bed of down , if only he may obtain an evi- dence of his divinity . Scarcely had he breathed this vow when he fell asleep . Next comes the dream , the opening ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Æneid beauty blank verse Canterbury Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer colour comedy Court of Love death delight doth drama dramatist Elizabethan English expression eyes Faery Queen fair fancy favour feeling flowers French genius gentle Gorboduc Gower Greene Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry hero Hero and Leander honour humour imagination imitation Italian Jean de Meun Jonson King Knight's Tale knights lady language less lines lived look lovers ludicrous Lydgate Marlowe merry Mirror for Magistrates moral nature never Parliament of Birds passage passion Pembroke personages plays poem poet poet's poetical poetry praise probably revenge rhymes Richard Richard II romance rose satire seems sentiment Shakespeare shepherds sing song sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage stanza Stratford supposed Surrey Surrey's sweet tale Tamburlaine tears tender thee things thou tion tragedy translation Troilus Trouvères unto Venus verse wanton words write written wrote Wyatt youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 277 - 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 405 - Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Página 365 - 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 283 - 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 380 - 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 390 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Página 366 - 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...
Página 417 - Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Página 405 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk ; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Página 364 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...