English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... Poems ... ... " Cupido Conquered " Other Works .. ... ... ... ... PAGE I - 4 4 , 5 5-7 ... 7-9 ΙΟ ... ... :: :: : : 10-12 12-16 16 , 17 17 , 18 18-20 20 , 21 21 21 , 22 22-26 26-28 28 , 29 29 , 30 George Turbervile ... Eclogues of ...
... Poems ... ... " Cupido Conquered " Other Works .. ... ... ... ... PAGE I - 4 4 , 5 5-7 ... 7-9 ΙΟ ... ... :: :: : : 10-12 12-16 16 , 17 17 , 18 18-20 20 , 21 21 21 , 22 22-26 26-28 28 , 29 29 , 30 George Turbervile ... Eclogues of ...
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... Poets . " George Vertue wrote , in 1731 , in his " Notes on the Life and Poems of Spenser , ' " East Smithfield , near the Tower , the birth- place of Edmund Spenser , that Famous Poet and our Second Chaucer . This printed in Latin and ...
... Poets . " George Vertue wrote , in 1731 , in his " Notes on the Life and Poems of Spenser , ' " East Smithfield , near the Tower , the birth- place of Edmund Spenser , that Famous Poet and our Second Chaucer . This printed in Latin and ...
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... Poems from Bellay and Petrarch upon earthly vanities were used by him in the shaping of his " Theatre " as pleasant piping of sweet music - bird - call to the flighty worldlings . His own prose then religiously enforced the lesson ...
... Poems from Bellay and Petrarch upon earthly vanities were used by him in the shaping of his " Theatre " as pleasant piping of sweet music - bird - call to the flighty worldlings . His own prose then religiously enforced the lesson ...
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... poems of Bellay and Petrarch - which they used as bait for their little trap to catch the worldling - found the boy Spenser competent and willing . Theodore Roest refers to the prose pieces in saying , " I have out of the Brabants ...
... poems of Bellay and Petrarch - which they used as bait for their little trap to catch the worldling - found the boy Spenser competent and willing . Theodore Roest refers to the prose pieces in saying , " I have out of the Brabants ...
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... poem in Petrarch , the Canzone beginning " Standomi un giorno solo a la finestra . " It is in six twelve - lined ... poems , each consisting of three four - lined stanzas of alternate rhyme , with or without an added couplet . In ...
... poem in Petrarch , the Canzone beginning " Standomi un giorno solo a la finestra . " It is in six twelve - lined ... poems , each consisting of three four - lined stanzas of alternate rhyme , with or without an added couplet . In ...
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Page 135 - ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 385 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 259 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 438 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source; Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame: There when they came, whereas those bricky tower? The which on Thames...
Page 250 - 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 346 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 259 - Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God ! No, no.
Page 148 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed a loving eye; To none of these I yield as thrall ; For why ? my mind doth serve for all.
Page 257 - 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 346 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...