Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547Macmillan, 1920 - 564 Seiten |
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... merely to select from your pitifully small proportion of the three hundred thousand words in the New English Dictionary the best words at your command . The choice of what language shall be your mother tongue is as far from your power ...
... merely to select from your pitifully small proportion of the three hundred thousand words in the New English Dictionary the best words at your command . The choice of what language shall be your mother tongue is as far from your power ...
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... merely the expression of personal preference , and one is brought to the blank wall of De gustibus non est ... mere statement . In the allied art of literature , unhappily , the same truth is not so universally accepted . The ...
... merely the expression of personal preference , and one is brought to the blank wall of De gustibus non est ... mere statement . In the allied art of literature , unhappily , the same truth is not so universally accepted . The ...
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... merely giving the references , in the belief that the time of the student will be saved thereby . For the same reason I have omitted a gen- eral bibliography , which seems to me both pedantic and futile . In a subject such as this ...
... merely giving the references , in the belief that the time of the student will be saved thereby . For the same reason I have omitted a gen- eral bibliography , which seems to me both pedantic and futile . In a subject such as this ...
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... merely an inevitable evil . It was the present that was important , and man's relation to his fellow men in the world about him . Attention was directed not to the individual but to the community . As the cathedral expresses a typical ...
... merely an inevitable evil . It was the present that was important , and man's relation to his fellow men in the world about him . Attention was directed not to the individual but to the community . As the cathedral expresses a typical ...
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... merely a personal love of display , nor do the pages in Hall's Chronicle devoted to detailed description of festivities argue naïve admiration on the part of the chronicler . In an age when there were no editorials and no inspired ...
... merely a personal love of display , nor do the pages in Hall's Chronicle devoted to detailed description of festivities argue naïve admiration on the part of the chronicler . In an age when there were no editorials and no inspired ...
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Alamanni allegory Anne Boleyn appears Ascham Barclay boke Caxton's Chaucer Church classical Clément Marot Cock Lorell condition couplet Court discussion doth Dyce Eclogues edition England englysshe Erasmus euery example fact flies French Greek hath haue Hawes Henry VIII Heywood humanism humanists Ibid illustration imitation influence interest Italian King kynge lady language learning lines literary Lord Lydgate Marot Medieval Latin merely modern reader moral nature noble original passage Pastime of Pleasure Petrarch poem poet poetic poetry Prince printed probably quoted reason Renaissance reprinted rime rime-royal ryght Sapience satire sayd seems Ship of Fools Sir Thomas sixteenth century Skelton sonnet Spenser spider stanza Surrey Surrey's syllables tale theyr thing thou tion Tottel tradition translation true Tudor tyme verse Vives whan wolde Wolsey words writers written Wyatt Wynkyn de Worde yere
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Seite 121 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 4 - BRIEF life is here our portion ; Brief sorrow, short-lived care : The life that knows no ending, The tearless life is there. O happy retribution ! Short toil, eternal rest ; For mortals and for sinners A mansion with the blest.
Seite 20 - and tell you a truth, which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Seite 516 - THE MEANS TO ATTAIN HAPPY LIFE MARTIAL, the things that do attain The happy life be these, I find: The riches left, not got with pain; The fruitful ground, the quiet mind; The equal friend, no grudge, no strife; No charge of rule nor governance; Without disease, the healthful life; The household of continuance.
Seite 36 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Seite 48 - Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram...
Seite 50 - In so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchauntes were in a shippe in tamyse, for to haue sayled ouer the see into zelande and for lacke of wynde, thei taryed atte forlond...
Seite 48 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Seite 310 - Therefore where euer that thou doest behold A comely corpse, with beautie faire endewed, Know this for certaine, that the same doth hold A beauteous soule, with faire conditions thewed, Fit to receiue the seede of vertue strewed. For all that faire is, is by nature good ; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Seite 296 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.