The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, Modernized ...Whittaker & Company, 1841 - 331 oldal |
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lxvii. oldal
... red leaf , the last of its clan , That dances as often as dance it can , Hanging so light , and hanging so high , On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky . Coleridge , in great glee , once said to a d 2 INTRODUCTION . lxvii.
... red leaf , the last of its clan , That dances as often as dance it can , Hanging so light , and hanging so high , On the topmost twig that looks up to the sky . Coleridge , in great glee , once said to a d 2 INTRODUCTION . lxvii.
lxviii. oldal
Geoffrey Chaucer Richard H. Horne. Coleridge , in great glee , once said to a friend , " They think they are reading verses of eight syllables , and every now and then they read eleven . " Doubtless he meant that he did not compose on ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Richard H. Horne. Coleridge , in great glee , once said to a friend , " They think they are reading verses of eight syllables , and every now and then they read eleven . " Doubtless he meant that he did not compose on ...
lxxix. oldal
... once , - As hold - e you to maken you stedfást . 66 Even if nothing were allowed for the wear and tear " of several hundred years , something must be conceded to the habitual skill of a great poet , who is scarcely ever found really ...
... once , - As hold - e you to maken you stedfást . 66 Even if nothing were allowed for the wear and tear " of several hundred years , something must be conceded to the habitual skill of a great poet , who is scarcely ever found really ...
civ. oldal
... once to ascend to the creative Principle , wherein alone it can find relief and repose . With this feeling doth the profoundly simple - hearted old poet call upon God , and upon Christ , through the voices of earth's many happy and many ...
... once to ascend to the creative Principle , wherein alone it can find relief and repose . With this feeling doth the profoundly simple - hearted old poet call upon God , and upon Christ , through the voices of earth's many happy and many ...
cv. oldal
... once breathed over the lost prototypes , —the worm , the moth , and the mouldering years , have lived their lives and done their work upon them , without conveying the records into the all - compounding earth ; nor hath the silence of ...
... once breathed over the lost prototypes , —the worm , the moth , and the mouldering years , have lived their lives and done their work upon them , without conveying the records into the all - compounding earth ; nor hath the silence of ...
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accents alsó Annelida anon Arviragus Aurelius beauty bird bliss brought Canace Canterbury Tales Chaucer cheer clerks Cuckoo dance daughter dear death Demophon Dorigen doth Dryden Duke of Lancaster English evermore eyes fair flower fresh friends gentle goeth gone grace green grief hand hast hath hear heart heroic verse honour horse John of Gaunt king knew knight lady LEIGH HUNT Lord lovers Manciple metre modern never nigh Nightingale noble nought numbers o'er Phoebus poems poet pray Prologue psaltery Queen quoth reader rhyme rhythm Richard le Scrope ride rode ruth Simkin sing sister song sooth sorrow soul speak steed story Sumner sweet syllables tale tell Tereus thee Theseus thing Thopas thou thought tongue tree trow truth twas unto versification ween wife wight wise wondrous word worthy
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lxvii. oldal - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
260. oldal - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
xiii. oldal - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
xiv. oldal - Anger dared the pallid Fear ; Next stood Hypocrisy, with holy leer ; Soft smiling, and demurely looking down, But hid the dagger underneath the gown : The assassinating wife, the household fiend, And far the blackest there, the traitor-friend. On t' other side there stood Destruction bare ; Unpunish'd Rapine, and a waste of war.
lxxiii. oldal - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
xxxix. oldal - I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine. But this opinion is not worth confuting...
lxix. oldal - With music strong and saintly song To wander through the forest bare, Lest aught unholy loiter there.' Thus Bracy said: the Baron, the while, Half-listening heard him with a smile; Then...
141. oldal - Quest' arder mio, di che vi cal sì poco, E i vostri onori in mie rime diffusi, Ne porian infiammar fors...
xxxix. oldal - The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but is like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata : they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lydgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
6. oldal - With lockes curled as they were laid in press ; Of twenty years of age he was, I guess...