Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... lines come from the song of the Mermaids . Is the peace that the great poem brings a vanity from which the Palmer with temperate advice would discounsel us ? Can we trust it ? In his Hymne in Honour of Beautie the poet suggests that we ...
... lines come from the song of the Mermaids . Is the peace that the great poem brings a vanity from which the Palmer with temperate advice would discounsel us ? Can we trust it ? In his Hymne in Honour of Beautie the poet suggests that we ...
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... lines that are certainly his -a pleasant conjunction of excitements . The lines were some blank verse translations of the French poet du Bellay , whose sonnets had appeared only the year before , and others in rhyme from Petrarch ...
... lines that are certainly his -a pleasant conjunction of excitements . The lines were some blank verse translations of the French poet du Bellay , whose sonnets had appeared only the year before , and others in rhyme from Petrarch ...
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... lines may be picked from it . " Xenophon and Plato reckoned among discoursers , and conceited super- ficial fellows ; . . . Petrarch and Boccace in every man's mouth ... the French and Italian highly regarded ; the Latin and Greek but ...
... lines may be picked from it . " Xenophon and Plato reckoned among discoursers , and conceited super- ficial fellows ; . . . Petrarch and Boccace in every man's mouth ... the French and Italian highly regarded ; the Latin and Greek but ...
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... lines as these- Rich Oranochy , though but knowen late ; And that huge River , which doth beare his name Of warlike Amazons , who doe possesse the same ( iv . 11 , 21 ) . When Spenser describes Fansy , like a lovely Boy , SPENSER 9.
... lines as these- Rich Oranochy , though but knowen late ; And that huge River , which doth beare his name Of warlike Amazons , who doe possesse the same ( iv . 11 , 21 ) . When Spenser describes Fansy , like a lovely Boy , SPENSER 9.
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... lines His accents , his grammar , and his use of final e perplexed his readers , and his great gift of metre was obscured , as it remained till Tyrwhitt took him in hand in the 18th century . Few can have loved Chaucer in that day as ...
... lines His accents , his grammar , and his use of final e perplexed his readers , and his great gift of metre was obscured , as it remained till Tyrwhitt took him in hand in the 18th century . Few can have loved Chaucer in that day as ...
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