Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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Side 14
... once expresses his devotedness to the Queen of Love , and claims credit for meritorious service . In his old age he seems my theory ) that the suggestion is not yet confirmed : so far it partakes of the mistaken hero - worship that ...
... once expresses his devotedness to the Queen of Love , and claims credit for meritorious service . In his old age he seems my theory ) that the suggestion is not yet confirmed : so far it partakes of the mistaken hero - worship that ...
Side 17
... personality , voice , colour , general build , tricks of gesture , peculiar- ities of dress . We are left in no doubt as to his ideal ; B and are in a position to say at once whether HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WORKS . 17.
... personality , voice , colour , general build , tricks of gesture , peculiar- ities of dress . We are left in no doubt as to his ideal ; B and are in a position to say at once whether HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WORKS . 17.
Side 18
William Minto. and are in a position to say at once whether the details are consistent or inconsistent ; complete or meagre . Now , the dramatic poet is much more limited . He may intro- duce a striking feature now and then , such as ...
William Minto. and are in a position to say at once whether the details are consistent or inconsistent ; complete or meagre . Now , the dramatic poet is much more limited . He may intro- duce a striking feature now and then , such as ...
Side 22
... Once more , compare the name Rosial with 11. 41-48 of the Romance , where the translator tells his patron- ess that she " ought of price and right be cleped Rose of every wight . " But these may be mere accidental coincidences . the ...
... Once more , compare the name Rosial with 11. 41-48 of the Romance , where the translator tells his patron- ess that she " ought of price and right be cleped Rose of every wight . " But these may be mere accidental coincidences . the ...
Side 49
... once let the reins out of his hands was not able to resume them the president of such a company must keep his authority by giving his subjects liberty to take their own way . The butt of the Miller's Tale was a carpenter ; and the Reeve ...
... once let the reins out of his hands was not able to resume them the president of such a company must keep his authority by giving his subjects liberty to take their own way . The butt of the Miller's Tale was a carpenter ; and the Reeve ...
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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...