Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 oldal |
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8. oldal
... court , tended to bring the old Anglo - Saxon tongue into disrepute , and the policy of the conquerors threatened to exterminate it entirely . But it is as difficult to work an immediate revolution in the language as in the manners of a ...
... court , tended to bring the old Anglo - Saxon tongue into disrepute , and the policy of the conquerors threatened to exterminate it entirely . But it is as difficult to work an immediate revolution in the language as in the manners of a ...
14. oldal
... courts were remarkable for their splendor and gallantry , and there was everything that could excite a lively fancy , or rouse a fervid imagination . And Chaucer neglected not these advantages , but drew largely from the rich store of ...
... courts were remarkable for their splendor and gallantry , and there was everything that could excite a lively fancy , or rouse a fervid imagination . And Chaucer neglected not these advantages , but drew largely from the rich store of ...
21. oldal
... court of Theseus is , like the court of chivalry , peopled with knights and enlivened by the carousals and combats of his own time . His tales are well , but often inartificially told , the mechanism of the poet at times is ill ...
... court of Theseus is , like the court of chivalry , peopled with knights and enlivened by the carousals and combats of his own time . His tales are well , but often inartificially told , the mechanism of the poet at times is ill ...
29. oldal
... Court Plays , exhibited at court during the Christmas holidays . But they consisted of pageants , mummeries , and disguisings , gorgeous and magnificent indeed , with their crowds of characters , the glitter and variety of their robes ...
... Court Plays , exhibited at court during the Christmas holidays . But they consisted of pageants , mummeries , and disguisings , gorgeous and magnificent indeed , with their crowds of characters , the glitter and variety of their robes ...
31. oldal
... court and the age in which he lived ; and the anecdote of his fate at the battle of Zutphen , when , being mortally wounded , he commanded the cup of water brought for his relief to be given to a dying soldier who eyed it wistfully ...
... court and the age in which he lived ; and the anecdote of his fate at the battle of Zutphen , when , being mortally wounded , he commanded the cup of water brought for his relief to be given to a dying soldier who eyed it wistfully ...
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Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton (Classic Reprint) Stanhope Busby Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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Æneid affections allusion amidst angels appear battle beautiful Ben Johnson bird bold breath bright Canterbury Tales celebrated characters Chaucer composed composition Comus conceit court dark deep delight dignity doth eloquence ENGLISH POETRY eternal expression fair fancy feelings flowers fugitive verses gallantry genius Geoffrey Chaucer GILES FLETCHER gloomy glowing gold happy heart heaven heroes hire human images imagination Inner Temple inspiration John of Gaunt King language learning legends light literature lived lofty looked Lord mankind mighty Milton mind minstrels moral muse narration nature night Paradise Lost passions Petrarch poem poet poetical popular proud quaint refined reign religious rendered rhymes rise romance rose rude Saint Brandon sang Satan Saxon sentiment Shakspeare shew songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stanza stream sublime sustained sweet Temple thee tree truth unto verse virtues wanting wife of Bath wild wings Wynkyn de Worde zeal
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38. oldal - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
71. oldal - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
99. oldal - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
101. oldal - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
77. oldal - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
39. oldal - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
103. oldal - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
77. oldal - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
101. oldal - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
103. oldal - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.