English Poetry (1170-1892)Ginn, 1907 - 580 pages |
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Page v
... seems absurd - and from the point of view of style and ideas it is absurd . - to find Giles Fletcher the Elder in the division called the Beginning of the Renaissance and William Warner in the Renaissance itself , as if the latter ...
... seems absurd - and from the point of view of style and ideas it is absurd . - to find Giles Fletcher the Elder in the division called the Beginning of the Renaissance and William Warner in the Renaissance itself , as if the latter ...
Page xvii
... seems not to have been altogether unprovoked , for it was written at the request of his brother Walter ; but there is no evidence that it met with any appreciation , as the single copy that has been preserved seems to be that written by ...
... seems not to have been altogether unprovoked , for it was written at the request of his brother Walter ; but there is no evidence that it met with any appreciation , as the single copy that has been preserved seems to be that written by ...
Page xviii
... seems to have been very widely read . The specimen given here exhibits its merits fairly and may serve to show us one of the most agreeable forms in which our ancestors received their knowledge of Bible history . The story here related ...
... seems to have been very widely read . The specimen given here exhibits its merits fairly and may serve to show us one of the most agreeable forms in which our ancestors received their knowledge of Bible history . The story here related ...
Page xx
... seems to give the experience of a father who has lost a beloved little daughter , his " Pearl , " and who , a few years later , falling asleep in his arbor , sees her in a vision , not as the helpless child he has lost , but as a ...
... seems to give the experience of a father who has lost a beloved little daughter , his " Pearl , " and who , a few years later , falling asleep in his arbor , sees her in a vision , not as the helpless child he has lost , but as a ...
Page xxi
... seems to have understood his versification or to have had the ability to adapt it to the language of their time . Chaucer's verse , as every- body now knows , is as smooth and musical as the best verse of any age , if the final vowels ...
... seems to have understood his versification or to have had the ability to adapt it to the language of their time . Chaucer's verse , as every- body now knows , is as smooth and musical as the best verse of any age , if the final vowels ...
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Antistrophe arms art thou beauty breast breath bright Chaucer dark dead dear death delight dost doth doun dread dream earth eyes face fair fear flowers forto frae grace grief hand hast hath hear heart Heaven herte Hind Horn king kyng lady Lady of Shalott LAYAMON light live look Lord mind Mother Muse myght ne'er never night nought numbers nymph o'er Oxus pain poem praise quath quoth rest rose round Rustum sche shal shine sigh sight sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul speke spirit stars stood sweet swich tears thanne thee ther thine thing thou art thought thro trewe twas Tydeus unto voice wacz weep whan wild wind wings wolde words wyde wyll wyth youth ΙΟ