Lectures on English Poetry: From the Reign of Edward the Third to the Time of Burns and Cowper, with Shakespeare's Supernatural Characters; an EssayJoseph Thomas, 1839 - 229 páginas |
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... face of the earth , they have transmitted their fame to the remotest ages through the medium of Literature alone . The genius of Timanthes lives but in the pages 1 of Pliny ; and the sword of Cæsar has been 2 LECTURES ON.
... face of the earth , they have transmitted their fame to the remotest ages through the medium of Literature alone . The genius of Timanthes lives but in the pages 1 of Pliny ; and the sword of Cæsar has been 2 LECTURES ON.
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... live only in the breath of tradition , or on the page of history , or in some perishable and imperfect fragment ; the pen of Homer , or of Virgil , or of Shakspeare , is an instrument of power , as mighty and magical as when first the ...
... live only in the breath of tradition , or on the page of history , or in some perishable and imperfect fragment ; the pen of Homer , or of Virgil , or of Shakspeare , is an instrument of power , as mighty and magical as when first the ...
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... lives , they were not likely to occupy themselves greatly either in the pro- duction , or the perusal , of Literature . The sceptre first passed from the strenuous grasp of Edward the Third into the feeble hands of his grandson . Then ...
... lives , they were not likely to occupy themselves greatly either in the pro- duction , or the perusal , of Literature . The sceptre first passed from the strenuous grasp of Edward the Third into the feeble hands of his grandson . Then ...
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... lives . Ben Jonson fought in the English Army against the Spaniards in the Netherlands , and Lope de Vega accompanied the Spanish Armada for the invasion of Eng- land . Shakspeare and Cervantes , the pro- foundest masters of the human ...
... lives . Ben Jonson fought in the English Army against the Spaniards in the Netherlands , and Lope de Vega accompanied the Spanish Armada for the invasion of Eng- land . Shakspeare and Cervantes , the pro- foundest masters of the human ...
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... lives had been unfortunate . Its inci- dents are founded on the old Chronicles ; which , indeed , are followed so servilely in general , as to give to the work a very prosaic character , and to take from it all claims to originality ...
... lives had been unfortunate . Its inci- dents are founded on the old Chronicles ; which , indeed , are followed so servilely in general , as to give to the work a very prosaic character , and to take from it all claims to originality ...
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Página 206 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Página 92 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 118 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Página 200 - And wilt thou leave me thus? Say nay! say nay! And wilt thou leave me thus, That hath loved thee so long In wealth and woe among? And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus? Say nay! say nay!
Página 187 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
Página 71 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
Página 198 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Página 66 - Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página 66 - And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Página 29 - O be not angry with those fires, For then their threats will kill me ; Nor look too kind on my desires, For then my hopes will spill me. O do not steep them in thy tears, For so will sorrow slay me; Nor spread them as distract with fears; Mine own enough betray me.