Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1907 - 379 páginas |
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... Chaucer's verse is wrong , and a flitting acquaintance with the life of Shakespeare , the history of the stage , or the most common motive for human endeavour , would dispose of the Lamb's paradox that Shake- speare's plays are unfit ...
... Chaucer's verse is wrong , and a flitting acquaintance with the life of Shakespeare , the history of the stage , or the most common motive for human endeavour , would dispose of the Lamb's paradox that Shake- speare's plays are unfit ...
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... Chaucer has arranged the Pilgrimage to Canterbury ! Now , let us step on a hundred years for- ward . We are now within hail of Alexander , and a brilliant consistory of Grecian men that is by which he is surrounded . There are now ...
... Chaucer has arranged the Pilgrimage to Canterbury ! Now , let us step on a hundred years for- ward . We are now within hail of Alexander , and a brilliant consistory of Grecian men that is by which he is surrounded . There are now ...
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... Chaucer's . Everything in it seems in its place . A healthy sagacious man of the world has gone through the world ; he loves it , and knows it ; he dwells on it with fond appreciation ; every object of the old life of " merry England ...
... Chaucer's . Everything in it seems in its place . A healthy sagacious man of the world has gone through the world ; he loves it , and knows it ; he dwells on it with fond appreciation ; every object of the old life of " merry England ...
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... Chaucer , the hard marital selfishness of Milton , the brutality of Luther , the boorishness of Johnson , the ripe self- love of Wordsworth , the malice of Pope , the egoism of Goethe , the murky and selfish spleen of Carlyle , the ...
... Chaucer , the hard marital selfishness of Milton , the brutality of Luther , the boorishness of Johnson , the ripe self- love of Wordsworth , the malice of Pope , the egoism of Goethe , the murky and selfish spleen of Carlyle , the ...
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... Chaucer was transfused into his body , and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease . Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original ; and many besides myself have heard our famous Waller own that he ...
... Chaucer was transfused into his body , and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease . Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original ; and many besides myself have heard our famous Waller own that he ...
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Página 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 299 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 228 - 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 304 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Página 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 280 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Página 266 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Página 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...