Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English PoetryJohn Murray, 1841 - 716 pages |
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... mean time let it be recollected , that if we have not rhyme in the vernacular verse , we have examples of it in the poetry of the Anglo - Saxon churchmen - abundance of it in Bede's and Foniface's Latin verses . We meet also , in the ...
... mean time let it be recollected , that if we have not rhyme in the vernacular verse , we have examples of it in the poetry of the Anglo - Saxon churchmen - abundance of it in Bede's and Foniface's Latin verses . We meet also , in the ...
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... mean time , fraught with events which , while they undermined the feudal system , gradually prepared the way for the ... means of missile de- tics , would have narrowed that scope for the prominence of individual prowess which was ...
... mean time , fraught with events which , while they undermined the feudal system , gradually prepared the way for the ... means of missile de- tics , would have narrowed that scope for the prominence of individual prowess which was ...
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... mean and personal acceptation , but understanding it as the moral warfare of indignation and ridicule against turpitude and absurdity . Those writers were Langlande and Chaucer , both of whom have been claimed as primitive reformers by ...
... mean and personal acceptation , but understanding it as the moral warfare of indignation and ridicule against turpitude and absurdity . Those writers were Langlande and Chaucer , both of whom have been claimed as primitive reformers by ...
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... mean capacity must be taken with a bushel of doubt . - CAMPBELL , Life of Shakspeare , tva 1838 , p . xxii ] [ The Mysteries Mr. Collier would have called Miracle- Plays , and the Moralities , Morals or Moral - Plays . ] [ Speaking of ...
... mean capacity must be taken with a bushel of doubt . - CAMPBELL , Life of Shakspeare , tva 1838 , p . xxii ] [ The Mysteries Mr. Collier would have called Miracle- Plays , and the Moralities , Morals or Moral - Plays . ] [ Speaking of ...
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... mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Dubartas , and was rapt into ecstacy when I read these lines : Now , when the Winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic ocean ; To glaze the lakes , to bridle up the floods , And ...
... mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Dubartas , and was rapt into ecstacy when I read these lines : Now , when the Winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic ocean ; To glaze the lakes , to bridle up the floods , And ...
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Aret beauty behold Ben Jonson blood Born breast breath bright Canterbury Tales Cham charms Chaucer CLEORA Clovis court dear death delight Died dost doth earth English eyes fair fame fancy fate father fear flame genius give grace grief hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Hengo honour hope Hudibras king lady language Layamon Leosthenes light live look Lord Lubberkin maid Massinissa Metis mind Mirror for Magistrates Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion pity pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride prince queen racter rise Rodmond round Saxon scene Scotland seem'd shade Shakspeare shine sight sing smile soft song sorrow soul spirit sweet taste tears tell thee thine things thou art thought trembling truth Twas unto verse virtue wanton whilst wind wretched youth
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Page 307 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 339 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 259 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 266 - Proclaim the ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's pearl upon our coast; And in these rocks for us did frame A temple where to sound His name. Oh! let our voice His praise exalt Till it arrive at Heaven's vault, Which then perhaps rebounding may Echo beyond the Mexique bay!
Page 259 - Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page lxxxvii - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 232 - To Daffodils Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 306 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out, its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
Page 75 - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes. Were an all-eating shame and thriftless "praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer ' This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse...
Page lxi - He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him...