A Handbook of Poetics: For Students of English VerseGinn, 1903 - 250 páginas |
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... , the minstrel tells of his travels , of the costly gifts he has received , of maxims of government he has heard , of famous heroes , kings and queens whom he has visited ( a wild confusion of half historical , half mythical THE EPIC . 13.
... , the minstrel tells of his travels , of the costly gifts he has received , of maxims of government he has heard , of famous heroes , kings and queens whom he has visited ( a wild confusion of half historical , half mythical THE EPIC . 13.
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... famous Brut of Layamon ( about the beginning of the Thirteenth Century ) . It is simply the mythical history of Britain . In tone and manner the Brut approaches the old national epic ; it is partly based on tradition by word of mouth ...
... famous Brut of Layamon ( about the beginning of the Thirteenth Century ) . It is simply the mythical history of Britain . In tone and manner the Brut approaches the old national epic ; it is partly based on tradition by word of mouth ...
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... famous story of the three caskets , brought in with so much effect in The Merchant of Venice . [ Cf. the story itself in the E. E. T. Soc.'s ed . of the Gesta Romanorum . ] Stimu lated by these stories , and fed by them in great meas ...
... famous story of the three caskets , brought in with so much effect in The Merchant of Venice . [ Cf. the story itself in the E. E. T. Soc.'s ed . of the Gesta Romanorum . ] Stimu lated by these stories , and fed by them in great meas ...
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... for Visions . Visions belong with allegory , and were beloved by the middle ages . Gregory the Great , St. Boniface ( Winfried ) , and many other famous writers , ― - have left " Visions " among their works 24 POETICS .
... for Visions . Visions belong with allegory , and were beloved by the middle ages . Gregory the Great , St. Boniface ( Winfried ) , and many other famous writers , ― - have left " Visions " among their works 24 POETICS .
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... famous poems of the kind are , on one hand , the social allegory , mourning the wrongs of certain classes in society : example , The Vision concerning Piers the Ploughman ( Fourteenth Century ) ; or , on the other , the political ...
... famous poems of the kind are , on one hand , the social allegory , mourning the wrongs of certain classes in society : example , The Vision concerning Piers the Ploughman ( Fourteenth Century ) ; or , on the other , the political ...
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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.