A Handbook of Poetics: For Students of English VerseGinn, 1903 - 250 páginas |
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... Latin and sacred lore makes it international . Poetry can now deliber- ately choose its subject ; it has different roads before it . The epic process still goes on , but new customs disturb it and break up the grand march into petty ...
... Latin and sacred lore makes it international . Poetry can now deliber- ately choose its subject ; it has different roads before it . The epic process still goes on , but new customs disturb it and break up the grand march into petty ...
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... Latin once made possible the ideal for which Goethe sighed , a world - literature . In the medieval Latin there was already collected a rude history of the world . In dis- torted shape , the heroes of old time passed through the Latin ...
... Latin once made possible the ideal for which Goethe sighed , a world - literature . In the medieval Latin there was already collected a rude history of the world . In dis- torted shape , the heroes of old time passed through the Latin ...
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... Latin , in which many of these tales appeared . Romances were greatly beloved in the middle ages , and made an important part of the first books printed by Caxton , - " joyous and pleasant his- tories of chivalry . " Finally , they were ...
... Latin , in which many of these tales appeared . Romances were greatly beloved in the middle ages , and made an important part of the first books printed by Caxton , - " joyous and pleasant his- tories of chivalry . " Finally , they were ...
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... Latin poetry of the early church . The last poets of profane Latin literature had a strong leaning toward allegory ; and it was taken up with ardor by the Chris- tians as particularly suited to their purposes . Prudentius ( born in ...
... Latin poetry of the early church . The last poets of profane Latin literature had a strong leaning toward allegory ; and it was taken up with ardor by the Chris- tians as particularly suited to their purposes . Prudentius ( born in ...
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... Latin , and of Spenser and William Browne for the English . This kind of poetry also had its origin in worship of the gods , and began in Greece with the wor- ship of Pan and the Dorian Artemis . The Spanish pastoral poem Diana , by ...
... Latin , and of Spenser and William Browne for the English . This kind of poetry also had its origin in worship of the gods , and began in Greece with the wor- ship of Pan and the Dorian Artemis . The Spanish pastoral poem Diana , by ...
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Página 120 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 118 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 223 - If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear By external swelling : but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
Página 131 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Página 239 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Página 112 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 158 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página 200 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Página 108 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Página 106 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.