A history of English literature for junior classesWilliam Collins, Sons,, 1873 - 253 էջ |
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... Italy , and he will try to make the rough English tongue more pleasant to listen to . He will also tell once again the amusing Italian stories , but dressed up in such excellent language that they are as good as new , and often much ...
... Italy , and he will try to make the rough English tongue more pleasant to listen to . He will also tell once again the amusing Italian stories , but dressed up in such excellent language that they are as good as new , and often much ...
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... Italian authors , which had a most refining influence on the literature of the time . SCOTTISH POETS . JAMES I. ( b . 1394 ) .- This Scottish king was the son of Robert III . While on his way to France - partly to receive his education ...
... Italian authors , which had a most refining influence on the literature of the time . SCOTTISH POETS . JAMES I. ( b . 1394 ) .- This Scottish king was the son of Robert III . While on his way to France - partly to receive his education ...
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... Italian works , had refined the taste and stored the minds of authors with ideas the most elegant and EDMUND SPENSER . 31 beautiful ; and the language itself 30 ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER IV THE POETS-FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH ...
... Italian works , had refined the taste and stored the minds of authors with ideas the most elegant and EDMUND SPENSER . 31 beautiful ; and the language itself 30 ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER IV THE POETS-FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH ...
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... Italian poets , he used the eight - line stanza , but added a ninth line two syllables longer than the others , called an Alexandrine . Here is an example of the Spenserian stanza- " A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine , Y'clad ...
... Italian poets , he used the eight - line stanza , but added a ninth line two syllables longer than the others , called an Alexandrine . Here is an example of the Spenserian stanza- " A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine , Y'clad ...
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... Italy wrote several poems in Latin and in Italian , being very well acquainted with both languages . On his return to Eng- land he took part in the stirring events of the Civil War , siding with the Puritans , and writing furious ...
... Italy wrote several poems in Latin and in Italian , being very well acquainted with both languages . On his return to Eng- land he took part in the stirring events of the Civil War , siding with the Puritans , and writing furious ...
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Էջ 71 - Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds, That, singing, up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk • The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good ; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light...
Էջ 71 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Էջ 188 - We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " ' So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " ' Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " ' For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn...
Էջ 94 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Էջ 31 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world...
Էջ 78 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Էջ 76 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long: In prose and verse, was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute.
Էջ 55 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
Էջ 52 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Էջ 139 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.