Characteristics of English poets from Chaucer to Shirley1874 |
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... Sonnets , CHAPTER VI . - DRAMATISTS BEFORE 1. Lyly , 11. Marlowe , III . Greene , IV . Peele , v . Nash , vi . Kyd , VII . Munday , VIII . Chettle , SHAKESPEARE . 242 250 255 258 265 268 275 296 299 311 319 324 326 328 329 CHAPTER VII ...
... Sonnets , CHAPTER VI . - DRAMATISTS BEFORE 1. Lyly , 11. Marlowe , III . Greene , IV . Peele , v . Nash , vi . Kyd , VII . Munday , VIII . Chettle , SHAKESPEARE . 242 250 255 258 265 268 275 296 299 311 319 324 326 328 329 CHAPTER VII ...
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... it partakes of the mistaken hero - worship that prompted Mr Massey to discredit Shake- speare with writing bawdy sonnets for the use of a friend . to have sobered down into becoming gravity , translating Boethius 14 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
... it partakes of the mistaken hero - worship that prompted Mr Massey to discredit Shake- speare with writing bawdy sonnets for the use of a friend . to have sobered down into becoming gravity , translating Boethius 14 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
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... sonnets by the courtiers of Henry VIII . , it is a fit spring prelude to the great Elizabethan season : of some- what uncertain glory like April itself , struggling out with its sunshine and bird - singing through clouds and rain , yet ...
... sonnets by the courtiers of Henry VIII . , it is a fit spring prelude to the great Elizabethan season : of some- what uncertain glory like April itself , struggling out with its sunshine and bird - singing through clouds and rain , yet ...
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... sonnets is a more perplexing question . Petrarch was probably known to Chaucer and to Lydgate ; but they were not moved by his example . I can venture on no deeper explanation than that Petrarch suited the taste of Wyatt and Surrey as ...
... sonnets is a more perplexing question . Petrarch was probably known to Chaucer and to Lydgate ; but they were not moved by his example . I can venture on no deeper explanation than that Petrarch suited the taste of Wyatt and Surrey as ...
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... sonnets together as it were for practice : yet one of those sonnets ( which we shall presently quote ) is perhaps the most irregular of all that Wyatt wrote . Mr Guest also , usually an indisputable authority , is here found inadvertent ...
... sonnets together as it were for practice : yet one of those sonnets ( which we shall presently quote ) is perhaps the most irregular of all that Wyatt wrote . Mr Guest also , usually an indisputable authority , is here found inadvertent ...
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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...