Afternoons with the PoetsHarper & brothers, 1879 - 320 էջ |
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Charles Dunham Deshler. , The Earliest Sonneteers . 13 stanzas when they might pass muster for and be claimed as sonnets . The length of the verse would seem to vindicate such a claim ; but in other important particulars the differences ...
Charles Dunham Deshler. , The Earliest Sonneteers . 13 stanzas when they might pass muster for and be claimed as sonnets . The length of the verse would seem to vindicate such a claim ; but in other important particulars the differences ...
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... pass for shrinking modesty , and by its false pretence has made some men doubt the existence of that shy , sweet virtue ; just as the glitter of worthless paste has rivalled or outshone the lustre of the real gem , and by its successful ...
... pass for shrinking modesty , and by its false pretence has made some men doubt the existence of that shy , sweet virtue ; just as the glitter of worthless paste has rivalled or outshone the lustre of the real gem , and by its successful ...
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... pass for mere feigning ; their plaints suggest a surfeit of the luxury of woe ; and even Laura herself becomes a tiresome bore . As for sympathy - it is impossible to arouse it for such an abstraction as Petrarch makes her , as ...
... pass for mere feigning ; their plaints suggest a surfeit of the luxury of woe ; and even Laura herself becomes a tiresome bore . As for sympathy - it is impossible to arouse it for such an abstraction as Petrarch makes her , as ...
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... passing , that this metre , which we call the heroic , was first introduced into our language by Chaucer — at least I believe there is no instance of its use by any English poet before his time . ” " I say , Professor , " I exclaimed ...
... passing , that this metre , which we call the heroic , was first introduced into our language by Chaucer — at least I believe there is no instance of its use by any English poet before his time . ” " I say , Professor , " I exclaimed ...
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... pass away a lit- tle time without offence to God or man , ' in a brief recital of the effects wrought upon English poetical literature by the ex- ample of Surrey and Wyatt . - Its first effect was not unquali- fiedly wholesome . The ...
... pass away a lit- tle time without offence to God or man , ' in a brief recital of the effects wrought upon English poetical literature by the ex- ample of Surrey and Wyatt . - Its first effect was not unquali- fiedly wholesome . The ...
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Էջ 162 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Էջ 72 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth "s unknown, although his height be taken.
Էջ 73 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom.
Էջ 172 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Էջ 106 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Էջ 163 - 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.
Էջ 70 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Էջ 164 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Էջ 227 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words appear: // "My...
Էջ 310 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.