Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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Side 20
... admirable prefatory remarks to his compari- son of the work with Boccaccio's Filostrato , Chaucer Society . I do not quite agree with Mr Rossetti , upon his own showing , that the chivalric passion and gallantry came in great measure ...
... admirable prefatory remarks to his compari- son of the work with Boccaccio's Filostrato , Chaucer Society . I do not quite agree with Mr Rossetti , upon his own showing , that the chivalric passion and gallantry came in great measure ...
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... admiration of the old poet ; but they omitted to say on what principles they scanned his lines . A century later , Dryden , with his vigor- ous habit of saying what he could not as well as what he could admit , expressed the greatest ...
... admiration of the old poet ; but they omitted to say on what principles they scanned his lines . A century later , Dryden , with his vigor- ous habit of saying what he could not as well as what he could admit , expressed the greatest ...
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... admiring the bird concert and the bright beams streaming through the painted window , he heard a hunter try his horn , and footsteps of men , horses , and hounds , and confused talk of hunting . He got up , and rode to the forest ...
... admiring the bird concert and the bright beams streaming through the painted window , he heard a hunter try his horn , and footsteps of men , horses , and hounds , and confused talk of hunting . He got up , and rode to the forest ...
Side 87
... admiring eye for a strong arm . When the patriots , in the beginning of the enterprise , are rowing towards Cantyre as a safe winter retreat , he imagines crowds of spectators on the shore looking at them as they rise on the rowing ...
... admiring eye for a strong arm . When the patriots , in the beginning of the enterprise , are rowing towards Cantyre as a safe winter retreat , he imagines crowds of spectators on the shore looking at them as they rise on the rowing ...
Side 88
... admiration . There are other elements in his portrait of Douglas- " He was in all his deedës leal , 1 For him dedeigned not to deal With treachery ne with falset . His heart on high honour was set , And him contained in such manner That ...
... admiration . There are other elements in his portrait of Douglas- " He was in all his deedës leal , 1 For him dedeigned not to deal With treachery ne with falset . His heart on high honour was set , And him contained in such manner That ...
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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...