Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with intr. and notes by R.O. MassonRosaline Orme Masson Macmillan and Company, 1876 - 391 páginas |
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... Court 231 The Rightful Courtier The Miseries of a Court - life . 232 234 235 236 . 195 196 From the Faery Queene . The Red - Cross Knight and Lady Una 197 Una and the Lion · The Visit of Duessa to Night 198 September . Una among the ...
... Court 231 The Rightful Courtier The Miseries of a Court - life . 232 234 235 236 . 195 196 From the Faery Queene . The Red - Cross Knight and Lady Una 197 Una and the Lion · The Visit of Duessa to Night 198 September . Una among the ...
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... Court Toady Hidden in Light · 371 341 A Sonnet Safe and all Scarless . • · 343 A Woman's Constancy The Soul's Progress from the Mandrake to the Sparrow The Song of the River to the 343 King 372 • 343 JOHN FORD · 373 Into a Whale 344 ...
... Court Toady Hidden in Light · 371 341 A Sonnet Safe and all Scarless . • · 343 A Woman's Constancy The Soul's Progress from the Mandrake to the Sparrow The Song of the River to the 343 King 372 • 343 JOHN FORD · 373 Into a Whale 344 ...
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... courts , and at the same time simple enough to reach the understanding and to charm the ear of the untaught crowd ... Court itself , within which the minstrels and poets chiefly assembled . But M. Taine has pointed out how great also ...
... courts , and at the same time simple enough to reach the understanding and to charm the ear of the untaught crowd ... Court itself , within which the minstrels and poets chiefly assembled . But M. Taine has pointed out how great also ...
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... court centre , at length fell , even in the highest circles , into disuse ; and the kind of English which took its place , and which is the forefather of our present Court - English , was that of educated English persons in the district ...
... court centre , at length fell , even in the highest circles , into disuse ; and the kind of English which took its place , and which is the forefather of our present Court - English , was that of educated English persons in the district ...
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... courts of French and Italian potentates . In this way he was brought into the very midst of the most brilliant civilisation and the most refined literature in Europe ; and in his works may be found written , as clearly as in a prose ...
... courts of French and Italian potentates . In this way he was brought into the very midst of the most brilliant civilisation and the most refined literature in Europe ; and in his works may be found written , as clearly as in a prose ...
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Página 331 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Página 387 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Página 356 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 271 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Página 329 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Página 327 - Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune...
Página 274 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 333 - Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Página 324 - Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right ; To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, And smear with dust their glittering golden towers : 1 To fill with worm-holes stately monuments, To feed oblivion with decay of things, To blot old books, and alter their contents, To pluck the quills from ancient ravens...
Página 360 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.