Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to ShirleyWilliam Blackwood, 1885 - 382 Seiten |
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... reader must not in this volume expect to find the works of our poets treated with reference to their race or their social surroundings . " What sort of man was he ? " not " How was he formed ? " is the leading question to which I have ...
... reader must not in this volume expect to find the works of our poets treated with reference to their race or their social surroundings . " What sort of man was he ? " not " How was he formed ? " is the leading question to which I have ...
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... readers to forget such small points as orthographical differences between them and those poets of an elder time , and to get nearer to the living spirit of them . The tendency of all archaisms , as I shall point out more fully in the ...
... readers to forget such small points as orthographical differences between them and those poets of an elder time , and to get nearer to the living spirit of them . The tendency of all archaisms , as I shall point out more fully in the ...
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... readers will judge , as I did myself at first , from a general impression . But I must beg those who do interest themselves in such a dilettante inquiry , to observe the nature of my argument , that it is not founded on single ...
... readers will judge , as I did myself at first , from a general impression . But I must beg those who do interest themselves in such a dilettante inquiry , to observe the nature of my argument , that it is not founded on single ...
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... reader to Homer , or " Dares , " or " Dyte . " He conducts us through his narratives with facile eloquence , smoothing over what is unpalatable , waving aside digressions , interspersing easy reflections ; never staying too long upon ...
... reader to Homer , or " Dares , " or " Dyte . " He conducts us through his narratives with facile eloquence , smoothing over what is unpalatable , waving aside digressions , interspersing easy reflections ; never staying too long upon ...
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... readers , and his admirers are constrained by the same necessity of being intelligible to their readers . But if a great poet had arisen before Chaucer in the Northern dialect , or if Chaucer himself had written in that dialect , the ...
... readers , and his admirers are constrained by the same necessity of being intelligible to their readers . But if a great poet had arisen before Chaucer in the Northern dialect , or if Chaucer himself had written in that dialect , the ...
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Seite 210 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Seite 212 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights ; Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Seite 308 - Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Seite 278 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Seite 214 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Seite 296 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Seite 314 - Go thy ways, old Jack ; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
Seite 316 - As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison. Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste ; But, with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Seite 208 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c.