Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 էջ |
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... battle songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal lines . The impressions of the ...
... battle songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal lines . The impressions of the ...
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... battle songs ; and Langlande , the author of the Visions of Piers Plowman . Yet these were but unworthy precursors of Chaucer . Their poetry was generally vague , tedious , and obscure , their language harsh and unsettled ; their ...
... battle songs ; and Langlande , the author of the Visions of Piers Plowman . Yet these were but unworthy precursors of Chaucer . Their poetry was generally vague , tedious , and obscure , their language harsh and unsettled ; their ...
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... battle field ; and celebrated the beauty of the Lady Geraldine with the gallantry , while he defended it with the courage of a knight errant . His sonnets are polished and expressive , wanting in power , yet free from that conceit which ...
... battle field ; and celebrated the beauty of the Lady Geraldine with the gallantry , while he defended it with the courage of a knight errant . His sonnets are polished and expressive , wanting in power , yet free from that conceit which ...
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... battle of Zutphen , when , being mortally wounded , he commanded the cup of water brought for his relief to be given to a dying soldier who eyed it wistfully , will be remembered as one of those beautiful traits of humanity , which ...
... battle of Zutphen , when , being mortally wounded , he commanded the cup of water brought for his relief to be given to a dying soldier who eyed it wistfully , will be remembered as one of those beautiful traits of humanity , which ...
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... Battle of Agincourt , the Baron's Wars , and England's Heroic Epistles . His chief work , the Poly - olbion is a description of our island , and full of antiquarian detail and allegorical personifications . He paints battle or hunting ...
... Battle of Agincourt , the Baron's Wars , and England's Heroic Epistles . His chief work , the Poly - olbion is a description of our island , and full of antiquarian detail and allegorical personifications . He paints battle or hunting ...
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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
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Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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?
Էջ 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.