Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to ShirleyW. Blackwood and sons, 1874 - 483 sider |
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... the versification of Chaucer . Chaucer's metre had been a vexed question ever since he had been reduced to print . The change of pronunciation had seriously affected the number of syllables in his verses 24 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
... the versification of Chaucer . Chaucer's metre had been a vexed question ever since he had been reduced to print . The change of pronunciation had seriously affected the number of syllables in his verses 24 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
Side 25
William Minto. had seriously affected the number of syllables in his verses ; and his editors , Thynne and Speght , while they valiantly abused detractors , could not , or at least did not , show how to supply the missing syllables ...
William Minto. had seriously affected the number of syllables in his verses ; and his editors , Thynne and Speght , while they valiantly abused detractors , could not , or at least did not , show how to supply the missing syllables ...
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... verse . It is musical to us— exquisitely so but the music is not the music that de- lighted the Court of Richard II . We may learn to repeat the articulations of his contemporaries , but we cannot hear with their ears . - Chaucer has ...
... verse . It is musical to us— exquisitely so but the music is not the music that de- lighted the Court of Richard II . We may learn to repeat the articulations of his contemporaries , but we cannot hear with their ears . - Chaucer has ...
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... verse " was the favourite form of the fifteenth century , and was frequently used in the sixteenth . It was , indeed , the great stanza of English poetry , till Spenser superseded it with the fuller music of his more elaborate structure ...
... verse " was the favourite form of the fifteenth century , and was frequently used in the sixteenth . It was , indeed , the great stanza of English poetry , till Spenser superseded it with the fuller music of his more elaborate structure ...
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... verse , he recast the whole into heavier ottava rima . But ottava rima ( the stanza of ' Don Juan ' ) , though strong enough for the vig- orous march of Drayton's narrative , would not have been sufficiently inwoven for the grave ...
... verse , he recast the whole into heavier ottava rima . But ottava rima ( the stanza of ' Don Juan ' ) , though strong enough for the vig- orous march of Drayton's narrative , would not have been sufficiently inwoven for the grave ...
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Side 277 - 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 405 - Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Side 365 - 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 283 - 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 380 - 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 390 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Side 366 - 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...
Side 417 - Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Side 405 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk ; but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Side 364 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...