A Study of English and American Poets: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1900 - 859 páginas |
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... takes part in an expedition into France , but no fighting is done ; he is taken prisoner at Retiers in Brittany and is ransomed by the King of England ; in 1366 he mar- ries a lady in service upon the Queen , of the family of Roet ...
... takes part in an expedition into France , but no fighting is done ; he is taken prisoner at Retiers in Brittany and is ransomed by the King of England ; in 1366 he mar- ries a lady in service upon the Queen , of the family of Roet ...
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... takes him for two years under his special pro- tection ; in October , 1398 , Chaucer receives another grant of a tun of wine daily ; October 3 , 1399 , four days after Henry IV . comes to the throne , in response to Chaucer's ap- peal ...
... takes him for two years under his special pro- tection ; in October , 1398 , Chaucer receives another grant of a tun of wine daily ; October 3 , 1399 , four days after Henry IV . comes to the throne , in response to Chaucer's ap- peal ...
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... takes all bitterness from his satire , and exhibits some degree of gracious sympathy with every sort and condition of men . His humor is usually subtile and playful ; even at its broadest and coarsest it is genuine , and has at least ...
... takes all bitterness from his satire , and exhibits some degree of gracious sympathy with every sort and condition of men . His humor is usually subtile and playful ; even at its broadest and coarsest it is genuine , and has at least ...
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... takes the daisy for his flower , and rises high above all poets of his age in honor to marriage and praise of the purity of the wife's white daisy crown . " - Henry Morley . " We have no hesitation in placing him very high in the list ...
... takes the daisy for his flower , and rises high above all poets of his age in honor to marriage and praise of the purity of the wife's white daisy crown . " - Henry Morley . " We have no hesitation in placing him very high in the list ...
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... takes in telling his stories has in itself the effect of consummate skill , and makes us follow all the windings of his fancy with sympathetic interest . His best tales run on like one of our inland rivers , sometimes hasten- ing a ...
... takes in telling his stories has in itself the effect of consummate skill , and makes us follow all the windings of his fancy with sympathetic interest . His best tales run on like one of our inland rivers , sometimes hasten- ing a ...
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Página 105 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 788 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 116 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 356 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Página 147 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Página 304 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Página 200 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows...
Página 107 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Página 273 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Página 368 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.