Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 Seiten |
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... action , they selected monarchs and warriors for their heroes : Charlemagne and Roland , Arthur and Merlin , Godfrey and Solyman , were favorites of their muse , and even the legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects ...
... action , they selected monarchs and warriors for their heroes : Charlemagne and Roland , Arthur and Merlin , Godfrey and Solyman , were favorites of their muse , and even the legends of ancient mythology furnished them with subjects ...
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... , the glorious paraphrase of this tale , is familiar to every one . Warton calls it " the most animated and harmonious piece of versification in the English language . " lofty in action and gorgeous in description , appears to 18.
... , the glorious paraphrase of this tale , is familiar to every one . Warton calls it " the most animated and harmonious piece of versification in the English language . " lofty in action and gorgeous in description , appears to 18.
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To the Time of Milton Stanhope Busby. lofty in action and gorgeous in description , appears to have been imitated from Boccacio's Theseid ; but the groundwork of some of the descriptions ... action and gorgeous in description, appears to ...
To the Time of Milton Stanhope Busby. lofty in action and gorgeous in description , appears to have been imitated from Boccacio's Theseid ; but the groundwork of some of the descriptions ... action and gorgeous in description, appears to ...
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... is sustained , and the characters and action appropriate . It was acted before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall in 1561 , by the students of the Inner Temple . D They The English in remote times had their scenic representations 27.
... is sustained , and the characters and action appropriate . It was acted before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall in 1561 , by the students of the Inner Temple . D They The English in remote times had their scenic representations 27.
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... action is broken , and the reader's train of thought somewhat destroyed . That poem is probably the most perfectly constructed which carries us on from the beginning to the end , while we gather new and fervent interest as we proceed ...
... action is broken , and the reader's train of thought somewhat destroyed . That poem is probably the most perfectly constructed which carries us on from the beginning to the end , while we gather new and fervent interest as we proceed ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid affections allusion amidst angels appear battle beautiful Ben Johnson bird bold breath bright Canterbury Tales celebrated characters Chaucer composed composition Comus conceit court dark deep delight dignity doth eloquence ENGLISH POETRY eternal expression fair fancy feelings flowers fugitive verses gallantry genius Geoffrey Chaucer GILES FLETCHER gloomy glowing gold happy heart heaven heroes hire human images imagination Inner Temple inspiration John of Gaunt King language learning legends light literature lived lofty looked Lord mankind mighty Milton mind minstrels moral muse narration nature night Paradise Lost passions Petrarch poem poet poetical popular proud quaint refined reign religious rendered rhymes rise romance rose rude Saint Brandon sang Satan Saxon sentiment Shakspeare shew songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stanza stream sublime sustained sweet Temple thee tree truth unto verse virtues wanting wife of Bath wild wings Wynkyn de Worde zeal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 38 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Seite 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Seite 99 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Seite 101 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Seite 77 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Seite 39 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Seite 103 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Seite 77 - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
Seite 101 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Seite 103 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.