Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... plays and Mysteries . - 4 . Metrical Romances , 59 II . SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARIES , - 1. Barbour . - 2 . Blind Harry , . 85 III . ENGLISH SUCCESSORS , - 1. Occleve . - 2 . Lydgate . - 3 . Sir Thomas Malory . - 4 . John Skelton - 5 ...
... plays and Mysteries . - 4 . Metrical Romances , 59 II . SCOTTISH CONTEMPORARIES , - 1. Barbour . - 2 . Blind Harry , . 85 III . ENGLISH SUCCESSORS , - 1. Occleve . - 2 . Lydgate . - 3 . Sir Thomas Malory . - 4 . John Skelton - 5 ...
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... plays . If we fail to perceive this contrast between the serious and the ludicrous side of the Canterbury pilgrimage , if we miss the poet's reconciliation of the two without repression . of either , Chaucer's genius , in so far as ...
... plays . If we fail to perceive this contrast between the serious and the ludicrous side of the Canterbury pilgrimage , if we miss the poet's reconciliation of the two without repression . of either , Chaucer's genius , in so far as ...
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... PLAYS AND MYSTERIES . Though there is no pre - eminent chief in this species of composition , they formed so large a part of the entertain- ment of the vulgar during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , that we must try to make out ...
... PLAYS AND MYSTERIES . Though there is no pre - eminent chief in this species of composition , they formed so large a part of the entertain- ment of the vulgar during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , that we must try to make out ...
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... Plays , ' edited for the same Society by Mr T. Wright , 1847 . Though the ostensible object of these plays was to in- struct the illiterate in a knowledge of Scripture , and edify them in love of God and fear of the devil , the effect ...
... Plays , ' edited for the same Society by Mr T. Wright , 1847 . Though the ostensible object of these plays was to in- struct the illiterate in a knowledge of Scripture , and edify them in love of God and fear of the devil , the effect ...
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... plays that we call miracles . " What could be more significant ? One class of personages seem to have been special objects of merriment - the devil and his attendant demons got up with horns , tails , claws , and hideous mask ...
... plays that we call miracles . " What could be more significant ? One class of personages seem to have been special objects of merriment - the devil and his attendant demons got up with horns , tails , claws , and hideous mask ...
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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...