Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 Seiten |
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... writing were general accomplishments , and man was dependant on his memory , the convenience of retaining verse in the recollection rendered it popular . Neither was its influence forgotten . As it has more nerve and power than prose ...
... writing were general accomplishments , and man was dependant on his memory , the convenience of retaining verse in the recollection rendered it popular . Neither was its influence forgotten . As it has more nerve and power than prose ...
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... writings which had passed through so many editions must have been popularly read , and as generally enjoyed . ― There are many other works of Chaucer . Among the best are , a Translation into English of the Romance of the Rose ...
... writings which had passed through so many editions must have been popularly read , and as generally enjoyed . ― There are many other works of Chaucer . Among the best are , a Translation into English of the Romance of the Rose ...
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... writings are not regarded in the present day with the favor lavished on them by the author's contemporaries . QUARLES , the puritan , wrote with much nerve and intensity , but with the gloom and spirit of his sect . His verses were ...
... writings are not regarded in the present day with the favor lavished on them by the author's contemporaries . QUARLES , the puritan , wrote with much nerve and intensity , but with the gloom and spirit of his sect . His verses were ...
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... . But your lovely leaves , where we May read how soon things have Their end , though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you , awhile , they glide Into the grave . WITHERS ' writings present a mass of wire - drawn ...
... . But your lovely leaves , where we May read how soon things have Their end , though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you , awhile , they glide Into the grave . WITHERS ' writings present a mass of wire - drawn ...
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To the Time of Milton Stanhope Busby. WITHERS ' writings present a mass of wire - drawn lines , redeemed by an occasional burst of inspiration , a sensibility , and poetical dreaminess , that tended somewhat to sustain an elegant but ...
To the Time of Milton Stanhope Busby. WITHERS ' writings present a mass of wire - drawn lines , redeemed by an occasional burst of inspiration , a sensibility , and poetical dreaminess , that tended somewhat to sustain an elegant but ...
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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.