Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young ReadersSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1883 - 406 páginas |
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... sense of the word . " Geoffrey Chaucer , 1340-1400 . Gower calls Chaucer his " disciple , " and it is possible , though not certain , that the author of the " Canterbury Tales " took some suggestions from his contem- porary ; but ...
... sense of the word . " Geoffrey Chaucer , 1340-1400 . Gower calls Chaucer his " disciple , " and it is possible , though not certain , that the author of the " Canterbury Tales " took some suggestions from his contem- porary ; but ...
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English Poets. A Book for Young Readers John Dennis. his delicate sense of poetical simplicity and con- tempt for adventitious ornament , has not succeeded . in this dainty task . Chaucer must be admired in his ancient dress or not at ...
English Poets. A Book for Young Readers John Dennis. his delicate sense of poetical simplicity and con- tempt for adventitious ornament , has not succeeded . in this dainty task . Chaucer must be admired in his ancient dress or not at ...
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... sense of proportion , they do not know where to stop , they are burdened with a weight of imagery and stifled by a plethora of wit . Defects like these , defects nearly allied to virtues , are chiefly evident in the lesser lights of ...
... sense of proportion , they do not know where to stop , they are burdened with a weight of imagery and stifled by a plethora of wit . Defects like these , defects nearly allied to virtues , are chiefly evident in the lesser lights of ...
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... sense of the term , a Christian poet ? The first thing that deserves notice is the paucity of our information about him . He was accounted a divine poet by his contemporaries ; he was the friend of great men like Sidney and Raleigh ...
... sense of the term , a Christian poet ? The first thing that deserves notice is the paucity of our information about him . He was accounted a divine poet by his contemporaries ; he was the friend of great men like Sidney and Raleigh ...
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... senses . They give a shape to imaginative conceptions , and they form the lan- guage in which they write . It was therefore by no means unreasonable of Spenser , the first poet worthy to be named as the successor of Chaucer , to ...
... senses . They give a shape to imaginative conceptions , and they form the lan- guage in which they write . It was therefore by no means unreasonable of Spenser , the first poet worthy to be named as the successor of Chaucer , to ...
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Página 316 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 24 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 188 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 92 - They are all gone into the world of light ! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, After the sun's remove.
Página 368 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Página 236 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 138 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Página 105 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 261 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Página 57 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.