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Tottel's Miscellany; Songes and Sonettes Richard Tottel,Henry Howard Earl of Surrey No preview available - 2020 |
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Page xiii - Poesie as nouices newly crept out of the schooles of Dante Arioste and Petrarch, they greatly pollished our rude and homely maner of vulgar Poesie, from that it had bene before, and for that cause may iustly be sayd the first reformers of our English meetre and stile.
Page 8 - Love that liveth and reigneth in my thought, That built his seat within my captive breast, Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought, Oft in my face he doth his banner rest.
Page xiii - Henry Earle of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyat, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that haue since employed their pennes vpon English Poesie, their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conueyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their Maister Francis Petrarcha.
Page iii - Now also of such among the Nobilitie or gentrie as be very well scene in many laudable sciences, and especially in making1 or Poesie, it is so come to passe that they haue no courage to write and if they haue, yet are they loath to be a knowen of their skill. So as I know very many notable gentlemen in the Court that haue written commendably and suppressed it agayne, or els...
Page 82 - ... VULCAN begat me, Minerva me taught, Nature my mother, craft nourished me year by year ; Three bodies are my food, my strength is in nought, Anger, wrath, waste, and noise are my children dear; Guess, friend, what I am, and how I am wrought, Monster of sea, or of land, or of elsewhere : Know me, and use me, and I may thee defend, And if I be thine enemy, I may thy life end.
Page 70 - The louers life compared to the Alpes" (Tottel's Miscellany, 1557, ed. Rollins, I, 68): Lyke vnto these vnmesurable mountaines, So is my painefull life, the burden of yre. For hye be they, and hye is my desire. And I of teares, and they be full of fountaines. Vnder craggy rockes they haue barren plaines, Hard thoughtes in me my wofull minde doth tyre, Small frute and many leaues their toppes do attire, With small effect great trust in me remaines.
Page 29 - A hand that taught what might be said in rhyme: That reft Chaucer the glory of his wit. A mark the which (unperfected, for time) Some may approach but never none shall hit.
Page 12 - ... the yse: In temperate heate where he is felt and sene: In presence prest of people madde or wise. Set me in hye, or yet in...
Page 87 - You do miffeke, with more trauell and care. Make plaine thine hart, that it be not knotted With hope or dreade, and fe thy will be bare From all affectes, whom vice hath euer fpotted.
Page 40 - That sometime they have put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change.