The English Poets: Chaucer to DonneMacmillan, 1903 |
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... literature . But where a play is only a play in name , like Comus or the Gentle Shepherd , we have not excluded it ; and songs from the dramatists have of course been admitted . Two points seem to require a word of notice — vi PREFACE .
... literature . But where a play is only a play in name , like Comus or the Gentle Shepherd , we have not excluded it ; and songs from the dramatists have of course been admitted . Two points seem to require a word of notice — vi PREFACE .
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Thomas Humphry Ward. Two points seem to require a word of notice — the order and the orthography . The first is approximately chronological ; for in this matter it was found impossible to follow any rigid rule . To go uniformly by the ...
Thomas Humphry Ward. Two points seem to require a word of notice — the order and the orthography . The first is approximately chronological ; for in this matter it was found impossible to follow any rigid rule . To go uniformly by the ...
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... seem artificial and tame beside it , and which are only matched by Shakespeare and Aristophanes . Here , where his largeness and freedom serve him so admi- rably , and also in those poems and songs , where to shrewdness he adds infinite ...
... seem artificial and tame beside it , and which are only matched by Shakespeare and Aristophanes . Here , where his largeness and freedom serve him so admi- rably , and also in those poems and songs , where to shrewdness he adds infinite ...
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... seems not to have known by name , he freely translated his two longest and , in a sense , greatest poems , Troylus and Criseyde and The Knightes Tale ; and it is possible , though by no means certain , that the framework of the ...
... seems not to have known by name , he freely translated his two longest and , in a sense , greatest poems , Troylus and Criseyde and The Knightes Tale ; and it is possible , though by no means certain , that the framework of the ...
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... seems to extend . Not only is there no trace in him of that ' religion of Nature ' which is so powerful a factor in modern poetry , but there is nothing that in the least resembles those elaborate backgrounds in which the genius of ...
... seems to extend . Not only is there no trace in him of that ' religion of Nature ' which is so powerful a factor in modern poetry , but there is nothing that in the least resembles those elaborate backgrounds in which the genius of ...
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Aeneid Allas anon Astrophel and Stella ballads beauty Canterbury Tales Chaucer clere Clerk Saunders Confessio Amantis Criseyde death dede deth doth doun drede English eyes Faery Queen fair flour French gardyn Glasgerion Gower grace grene gret grete gude hart hast hath heaven herte hire honour king lady litel Lord lover Lydgate Lyoun mede mony myght never newë night nocht nought nyght Parlement of Foules Piers Plowman poem poet poetical poetry Queen Quhat Quhen quhilk quod quoth rhyme royal Robin sall saugh sayd schal sche scho Scotch seyde seyn shal sing song sonnets sorwe Spenser suld sweet swete swich thair thay thee ther thing THOMAS OCCLEVE thou thought thow thyn Timor Mortis conturbat trouthe Troylus tyme unto Venus verse whan wight wolde word write wyth
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Página xlii - Guid faith, he mauna 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' that. For a
Página 463 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Página 453 - 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 460 - 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 351 - 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 452 - 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 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?
Página 489 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Página 462 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Página 454 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain* jewels in the carcanet.