A History of English Poetry, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1897 - English poetry |
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... Lines written in Captivity : Beauty and Nobility of this Elegy : A Mirror of Chivalric Sentiment , and an ... line of five accents : His use of the cæsura : Lydgate's failure to maintain Chaucer's system of metrical harmony : Continued ...
... Lines written in Captivity : Beauty and Nobility of this Elegy : A Mirror of Chivalric Sentiment , and an ... line of five accents : His use of the cæsura : Lydgate's failure to maintain Chaucer's system of metrical harmony : Continued ...
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... line of the discourse ; the other guests criticise the chief speaker , and dispute among themselves on the points raised in the course of the argument . The most interesting feature in the discussion of the character of the courtier is ...
... line of the discourse ; the other guests criticise the chief speaker , and dispute among themselves on the points raised in the course of the argument . The most interesting feature in the discussion of the character of the courtier is ...
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... the journey is represented by Marot and Rabelais , the ornaments of the reign of Francis I. An unbroken line 1 See vol . i . pp . 175-185 . of poets had carried on the opposing principles of the I 39 CONFLICT OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
... the journey is represented by Marot and Rabelais , the ornaments of the reign of Francis I. An unbroken line 1 See vol . i . pp . 175-185 . of poets had carried on the opposing principles of the I 39 CONFLICT OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
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... lines . Wherever there is honest and independent effort to give expression to an imaginative conception , there , however ineffectual the execution of the design may be in itself , we shall see that ground is gained for some later and ...
... lines . Wherever there is honest and independent effort to give expression to an imaginative conception , there , however ineffectual the execution of the design may be in itself , we shall see that ground is gained for some later and ...
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... lines , in which it will be seen that the manner of Petrarch , as above exemplified , is prosaically copied : - Voyant ces monts de veue ainsi lointaine , Je les compare à mon long déplaisir : Haut est leur chef , et haut est mon désir ...
... lines , in which it will be seen that the manner of Petrarch , as above exemplified , is prosaically copied : - Voyant ces monts de veue ainsi lointaine , Je les compare à mon long déplaisir : Haut est leur chef , et haut est mon désir ...
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afterwards allegory ancient Arcadia Ariosto beauty cæsura canto character Chaucer chivalry Christian Church classical composition conception Court courtier death doth dramatic Duke Earl Eclogue Elizabeth England English poetry Euphues Euphuistic Europe example expression Faery Queen favour feeling feudal Gabriel Harvey Gascoigne Gavin Douglas genius Grosart hath heart honour Ibid ideal ideas imagination imitation influence Interlude Italian Italy King knight Lady language Languet Latin learning lines literary Lord Lyly Machiavelli manner matter mediæval metrical mind Mirror for Magistrates Miscellanies moral nature noble Orlando Orlando Furioso Papingo pastoral Petrarch play poem poet poetical prince principle prose reader refinement Reformation reign rhyme romance Sackville satire says seems shepherd Sidney's sixteenth century sonnet Spenser spirit stanza style Surrey Surrey's syllable taste thee things Thomas thou thought tion Tottel's Miscellany tragedy translation trouvères unto verse virtue words write Wyatt
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Page 230 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies : How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languish! grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.
Page 92 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs. The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes fleet with new repaired scale.
Page 409 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Page 415 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.
Page 61 - O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak : O Lord, heal me ; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed : but thou, O Lord how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul : oh save me for thy mercies
Page 230 - Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Page 388 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms, And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 284 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of Highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 257 - Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books...
Page 170 - SING lullaby, as women do, Wherewith they bring their babes to rest, And lullaby can I sing too, As womanly as can the best. With lullaby they still the child, And if I be not much beguiled, Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.