A History of Elizabethan LiteratureMacmillan and Company, 1887 - 471 Seiten |
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... least , be far less valuable than that which , however im- perfectly , I have attempted to achieve . For although , for instance , the British Museum Catalogue is a marvel of combined and accumulated , and Mr. Arber's Transcript a ...
... least , be far less valuable than that which , however im- perfectly , I have attempted to achieve . For although , for instance , the British Museum Catalogue is a marvel of combined and accumulated , and Mr. Arber's Transcript a ...
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... least can be scanned , within the proper limits , according to the strictest rules of classical prosody : and while all good English metre comes out scathcless from the application of those rules nothing exhibits the badness of bad ...
... least can be scanned , within the proper limits , according to the strictest rules of classical prosody : and while all good English metre comes out scathcless from the application of those rules nothing exhibits the badness of bad ...
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... least been claimed for him ( though careful students of literary history know that these attributions are always rather hazardous ) that he wrote the first English prose comedy ( The Supposes , a version of Ariosto ) , the first regular ...
... least been claimed for him ( though careful students of literary history know that these attributions are always rather hazardous ) that he wrote the first English prose comedy ( The Supposes , a version of Ariosto ) , the first regular ...
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... least in his printer , the mania for cutting up long verses reaches its height , and his very decasyllables are found arranged in the strange fashion of four and six as thus : - " Good aged Bale : That with thy hoary hairs Dost still ...
... least in his printer , the mania for cutting up long verses reaches its height , and his very decasyllables are found arranged in the strange fashion of four and six as thus : - " Good aged Bale : That with thy hoary hairs Dost still ...
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... least eked out from the same source , rather checked this increase . The study of the classical writers had at first a tendency to render inveterate the habit of employing Latin for the journey - work of literature , and in the two ...
... least eked out from the same source , rather checked this increase . The study of the classical writers had at first a tendency to render inveterate the habit of employing Latin for the journey - work of literature , and in the two ...
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Seite 115 - SINCE there's no help, come let us kiss and part. Nay, I have done, you get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his...
Seite 115 - come let us kiss and part, — Nay I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free...
Seite 126 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage ; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Seite 367 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye In shady leaves of destiny...
Seite 365 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day...
Seite 368 - And teach her fair steps tread our Earth ; Till that divine Idea, take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
Seite 277 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Seite 75 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts. And every sweetness that inspired their hearts. Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Seite 126 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse. Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce : Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, * And cursed the access of that celestial thief.
Seite 138 - Of troublous and distressed mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly birth Of their own sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon imbecility; Yet seeing thus the course of things must run, He looks thereon, not strange, but as foredone. And whilst distraught ambition compasses And is encompassed, whilst as craft deceives And is deceived, whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress, And th...