Acme Library of Standard Biography: Second SeriesAmerican Book Exchange, 1880 - 552 oldal |
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20. oldal
... ladies love to exhibit their charms . The knights ' horses are decked out with not less finery than are the knights ... lady from a manufacturing district , the Wife of Bath , makes the most of her opportunities to be seen as well as to ...
... ladies love to exhibit their charms . The knights ' horses are decked out with not less finery than are the knights ... lady from a manufacturing district , the Wife of Bath , makes the most of her opportunities to be seen as well as to ...
21. oldal
... lady plays a great part in the history as well as in the literature of the later Plantagenet period ; and incon- testably its conceptions of this relation still retained much of the pure sentiment belonging to the best and most fervent ...
... lady plays a great part in the history as well as in the literature of the later Plantagenet period ; and incon- testably its conceptions of this relation still retained much of the pure sentiment belonging to the best and most fervent ...
22. oldal
... lady - killers , who were content with the reputation of accomplished seducers ; and in Troilus and Cressid a shrewd observer exclaims with the utmost vivacity against " Such sort of folk - what shall I clepe them ? what ? That vaunt ...
... lady - killers , who were content with the reputation of accomplished seducers ; and in Troilus and Cressid a shrewd observer exclaims with the utmost vivacity against " Such sort of folk - what shall I clepe them ? what ? That vaunt ...
23. oldal
... ladies , likewise found admission in England , but only in a modified degree . Here the fashion in question arserted itself only , or chiefly , in our poetic literature , and in the adoption by it of such fancies as the praise and ...
... ladies , likewise found admission in England , but only in a modified degree . Here the fashion in question arserted itself only , or chiefly , in our poetic literature , and in the adoption by it of such fancies as the praise and ...
26. oldal
... ladies - was mainly devoted to French and deportment , or by such a one as the historical Lady Juliana Berners , of a rather later date , whose leisure hours produced treatises on hunting and hawking , and who would probably have , on ...
... ladies - was mainly devoted to French and deportment , or by such a one as the historical Lady Juliana Berners , of a rather later date , whose leisure hours produced treatises on hunting and hawking , and who would probably have , on ...
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admiration already Areopagitica beauty called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer Church Coleridge Cowper death delight England English epic eyes Faerie Queene fancy father feeling French Gabriel Harvey genius hand happy heart House of Fame human imagination Ireland Irish John Keswick King Lady language Latin learning less letters literary literature lived London look Lord Lord Grey matter ment Milton mind moral nature never Olney once pamphlets Pantisocracy Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage passion perhaps Petrarch poem poet poet's poetical poetry political prose Puritan Ralegh reader religion religious Robert Southey Salmasius Samson Agonistes says seems sentiment sonnets soul Southey Southey's Spenser spirit story style Tale thee things thou thought tion translation truth Unwin verse Westminster wife words write written wrote young
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279. oldal - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
241. oldal - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
432. oldal - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, - My Mary ! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part; And all thy threads with magic art, Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary...
328. oldal - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
185. oldal - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great "twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
407. oldal - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
240. oldal - ... coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which, unless he took with a conscience that would retch, he must either straight perjure, or split his faith ; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing.
355. oldal - To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues...
399. oldal - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
435. oldal - Adieu !" At length, his transient respite past. His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more ; For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him : but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age. Is wet with Anson's tear i And tears by bards or heroes shed, Alike immortalize the dead.