The English Poets: Chaucer to DonneThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1883 |
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... masters , and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry . Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very 1 ' Then began he to call many things to remembrance , —all the lands which his valour ...
... masters , and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry . Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very 1 ' Then began he to call many things to remembrance , —all the lands which his valour ...
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... master , than by being perused in the prose of the critic . Nevertheless if we are urgently pressed to give some critical account of them , we may safely , perhaps , venture on laying down , not indeed how and why the characters arise ...
... master , than by being perused in the prose of the critic . Nevertheless if we are urgently pressed to give some critical account of them , we may safely , perhaps , venture on laying down , not indeed how and why the characters arise ...
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... master of Dante , wrote his Treasure in French because , he says , ' la parleure en est plus délitable et plus commune à toutes gens . ' In the same century , the thirteenth , the French romance - writer , Christian of Troyes ...
... master of Dante , wrote his Treasure in French because , he says , ' la parleure en est plus délitable et plus commune à toutes gens . ' In the same century , the thirteenth , the French romance - writer , Christian of Troyes ...
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... masters in letters as Dryden and Pope ; two men of such admirable talent , both of them , and one of them , Dryden , a man , on all sides , of such energetic and genial power ? And yet , if we are to gain the full benefit from poetry ...
... masters in letters as Dryden and Pope ; two men of such admirable talent , both of them , and one of them , Dryden , a man , on all sides , of such energetic and genial power ? And yet , if we are to gain the full benefit from poetry ...
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... it is the poetry of the builders of an age of prose and reason . Though they may write in verse , though they may in a certain sense be masters of the art of versification , Dryden and Pope are not INTRODUCTION . xxxix.
... it is the poetry of the builders of an age of prose and reason . Though they may write in verse , though they may in a certain sense be masters of the art of versification , Dryden and Pope are not INTRODUCTION . xxxix.
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Página xlii - Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will, for a' that, That sense and worth o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 453 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Página 460 - O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 454 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses...
Página 452 - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope...
Página 489 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 459 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now.
Página 230 - There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.
Página 460 - tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Página 491 - Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it is but motion. Tell flesh it is but dust; And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.