Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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Side 7
... Court . Up to 1386 , fortune would seem to have been uniformly kind to him . He was several times sent abroad on secret affairs of state . Among other places , he had an opportunity of visiting Italy while Petrarch was still alive , and ...
... Court . Up to 1386 , fortune would seem to have been uniformly kind to him . He was several times sent abroad on secret affairs of state . Among other places , he had an opportunity of visiting Italy while Petrarch was still alive , and ...
Side 8
... Court . A commission was issued for in- quiring , among other alleged abuses , into the state of the subsidies and customs , and Chaucer was superseded in his two comptrollerships . The new brooms had probably little difficulty in ...
... Court . A commission was issued for in- quiring , among other alleged abuses , into the state of the subsidies and customs , and Chaucer was superseded in his two comptrollerships . The new brooms had probably little difficulty in ...
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... Court . Justinus , as his name partially implies , was out- spoken and honest , churlish and cynical towards human frailties : the sort of man that succeeds only when his ser- vices are indispensable , or his eccentricities amusing ...
... Court . Justinus , as his name partially implies , was out- spoken and honest , churlish and cynical towards human frailties : the sort of man that succeeds only when his ser- vices are indispensable , or his eccentricities amusing ...
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... Court , and had naturally more affinity of spirit with the satirical Jean de Meun . The opposite of this is the natural inference from the fact that Chaucer translated the whole of Guillaume , and not more than one - sixth of Jean . M ...
... Court , and had naturally more affinity of spirit with the satirical Jean de Meun . The opposite of this is the natural inference from the fact that Chaucer translated the whole of Guillaume , and not more than one - sixth of Jean . M ...
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... . He was not a mere butterfly ; but , on the whole , he preferred the sun to the shade . Therein he showed his natural affinity for the Court . In the ' Canterbury Tales ' it is the Monk that HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WORKS . 15.
... . He was not a mere butterfly ; but , on the whole , he preferred the sun to the shade . Therein he showed his natural affinity for the Court . In the ' Canterbury Tales ' it is the Monk that HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WORKS . 15.
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Side 279 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Side 382 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep : methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
Side 281 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Side 285 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Side 277 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.
Side 367 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!— Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse...
Side 368 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...