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... English poetry , that they can hardly expect their works fhould laft long in a tongue which is daily changing ; that , whilft they are new , envy is apt to prevail against them ; and , as that wears off , our language itself fails . Our ...
... English poetry , that they can hardly expect their works fhould laft long in a tongue which is daily changing ; that , whilft they are new , envy is apt to prevail against them ; and , as that wears off , our language itself fails . Our ...
Page ii
... English poet . The moft known and celebrated of his Works , though I will not say the most perfect , is the Faerie Queene : it is conceived , wrought up , and coloured with a stronger fancy , and difcovers more the par- ticular genius ...
... English poet . The moft known and celebrated of his Works , though I will not say the most perfect , is the Faerie Queene : it is conceived , wrought up , and coloured with a stronger fancy , and difcovers more the par- ticular genius ...
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... English poets this of Morpheus , or Sleep , being a poetical fubject of the fame kind , might be fubjected to a like trial ; and the reader may particularly compare it with that in Book XI . of Ovid's Meta- n Milton had it in his eye ...
... English poets this of Morpheus , or Sleep , being a poetical fubject of the fame kind , might be fubjected to a like trial ; and the reader may particularly compare it with that in Book XI . of Ovid's Meta- n Milton had it in his eye ...
Page xxxiv
... English poet . I fhall give but one inftance in the following cele- brated stanza , which to gratify the curiofity of those who may be willing to compare the copy with the original , I fhall fet down in Italian . " Vezzofi augelli ...
... English poet . I fhall give but one inftance in the following cele- brated stanza , which to gratify the curiofity of those who may be willing to compare the copy with the original , I fhall fet down in Italian . " Vezzofi augelli ...
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... English numbers : before his time mufick feems to have been fo much a ftranger to our poetry , that , excepting the Earl of Surry's Lyricks , we have very few examples of verfes that had any tolerable ca- dence . in Chaucer there is fo ...
... English numbers : before his time mufick feems to have been fo much a ftranger to our poetry , that , excepting the Earl of Surry's Lyricks , we have very few examples of verfes that had any tolerable ca- dence . in Chaucer there is fo ...
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Page xxxv - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 7 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 19 - Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Page ccv - And in Her Majesty's time that now is, are sprung up another crew of courtly makers, noblemen and gentlemen of Her Majesty's own servants, who have written excellently well, as it would appear if their doings could be found out and made public with the rest, of which number is first that noble gentleman, Edward, Earl of Oxford...
Page viii - 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 47 - Ah Sir, my liege lord, and my love, Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate. And mightie causes wrought in heaven above, Or the blind god, that doth me thus amate. For hoped love to winne me certaine hate? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state, You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. LII. "Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...
Page 43 - Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a lady of that other spright, And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes, So...
Page 8 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 30 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Page cxi - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...