Privately Printed New Editions of Edmund Spenser and Samuel Daniel For the Subscribers Only. 1876-1880

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Alexander Balloch Grosart
1880 - 19 páginas

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Página 13 - Lo ! I, the man whose Muse whylome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shephards weeds, Am now enforst, a farre unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds, And sing of knights and ladies...
Página 12 - THE Worthy tract of Paulus louius, contayning a Discourse of rare inventions, both Militarie and Amorous called Imprese. Whereunto is added a Preface contayning the Arte of composing them with many other Notable devises. By Samuel Daniell, late Student in Oxenforde AT LONDON Printed for Simon Waterson.
Página 13 - Tanaquill, Whom that most noble Briton Prince so long Sought through the world, and suffered so much ill, That I must rue his undeserved wrong: O helpe thou my weake wit, and sharpen my dull tong.
Página 13 - Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove, That glorious fire it kindled in his hart...
Página 5 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Página 11 - Thou sit'st at home safe by thy quiet fire And hear'st of others harmes, but feelest none; And there thou telst of kinges and who aspire, Who fall, who rise, who...
Página 10 - Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of this world, about the which These revolutions of disturbances Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Página 10 - And knew so much as ever learning knew; Yet did it make thee trust thyself the less, And less presume. — And yet when being...
Página 10 - ... ear in the southern tongues, will always seem bald and tame in our less harmonious verse. It is the chief praise of Daniel, and must have contributed to what popularity he enjoyed in his own age, that his English is eminently pure, free from affectation of archaism and from pedantic innovation, with very little that is now obsolete. Both in prose and in poetry, he is, as to language, among the best writers of his time...
Página 11 - Relieve my languish, and restore the light, With darke forgetting of my care returne. And let the day be time enough to mourne The shipwracke of my ill adventred youth Let waking eyes suffice to waile their scorne, Without the torment of the nights untruth. Cease dreames, th' images of day desires, To modell forth the passions of the morrow.

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