Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547Macmillan, 1920 - 564 Seiten |
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... reader . But its roots lie back in the first half of the century . When Spenser was going to college in 1569 , Hawes was one of the great English poets with two editions in 1555 , Skelton's works had just been collected in 1568 ...
... reader . But its roots lie back in the first half of the century . When Spenser was going to college in 1569 , Hawes was one of the great English poets with two editions in 1555 , Skelton's works had just been collected in 1568 ...
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... readers . In an age which believed in authority , he wrote a poem in which his sympathy , certainly , is with rebellion . Again , naturally , he found few readers . But , in general , in spite of the common view to the contrary , the ...
... readers . In an age which believed in authority , he wrote a poem in which his sympathy , certainly , is with rebellion . Again , naturally , he found few readers . But , in general , in spite of the common view to the contrary , the ...
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... reader is not , How did they write , but , Why did they write in such a form . Surely the second ques- tion is clearly answered , if he can be given a comprehension of their aims and their limitations ; if he can be put back to a state ...
... reader is not , How did they write , but , Why did they write in such a form . Surely the second ques- tion is clearly answered , if he can be given a comprehension of their aims and their limitations ; if he can be put back to a state ...
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... reader must decide . Since the purpose of the book is to give an understanding of the literary forces in the first half of the sixteenth century and how each force affected the individual writer , I have allowed myself the privilege of ...
... reader must decide . Since the purpose of the book is to give an understanding of the literary forces in the first half of the sixteenth century and how each force affected the individual writer , I have allowed myself the privilege of ...
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... reader that Lorenzo in eloping with Jessica should allow her to rob Shylock ; the elopement is excused by the power of love " on such a night " , but what can excuse the theft of the jewels ? To the sixteenth century mind both the ...
... reader that Lorenzo in eloping with Jessica should allow her to rob Shylock ; the elopement is excused by the power of love " on such a night " , but what can excuse the theft of the jewels ? To the sixteenth century mind both the ...
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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.