Chaucer to DonneThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan and Company, 1880 |
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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 445 - 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 452 - 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 444 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 444 - 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 xlii - Faith, he maunna 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
Página 446 - 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.
Página 343 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
Página 442 - Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
Página 457 - Tu-whit, tu-who - a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl...
Página xxvii - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?