Chaucer to BurnsH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913 |
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... ' , and ' rest ' -Petrarch and Chaucer meant the victim's worn heart - chords to keep from snapping in revolt at the ironic splendours of her restored palace ! Pathos , mirth , subtlety , and learning , alternating GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13.
... ' , and ' rest ' -Petrarch and Chaucer meant the victim's worn heart - chords to keep from snapping in revolt at the ironic splendours of her restored palace ! Pathos , mirth , subtlety , and learning , alternating GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13.
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William Stebbing. Pathos , mirth , subtlety , and learning , alternating or together , pervade the Tales . They have the dewy freshness of meadows and woods . Birds sing in them . It is Fairy- land , into which now and again a Bottom has ...
William Stebbing. Pathos , mirth , subtlety , and learning , alternating or together , pervade the Tales . They have the dewy freshness of meadows and woods . Birds sing in them . It is Fairy- land , into which now and again a Bottom has ...
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... learning , diction , and thought . It animates and transforms the whole . His curiosity was devouring . He must have read whatever in contemporary or classical literature was for the period available . Through his reading he endeavoured ...
... learning , diction , and thought . It animates and transforms the whole . His curiosity was devouring . He must have read whatever in contemporary or classical literature was for the period available . Through his reading he endeavoured ...
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... learning in general from the manner of the Plays . In those the possession of knowledge , universal knowledge , is as it were taken for granted . No parade of it is made . As it is wanted it is present in whatever character might be ...
... learning in general from the manner of the Plays . In those the possession of knowledge , universal knowledge , is as it were taken for granted . No parade of it is made . As it is wanted it is present in whatever character might be ...
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... learning was his chief distinction . Like inferior contemporaries who referred to Jonson's learning , Milton limited the qualification to the drama . By that he intended panegyric rather than blame . Later ages have construed the ...
... learning was his chief distinction . Like inferior contemporaries who referred to Jonson's learning , Milton limited the qualification to the drama . By that he intended panegyric rather than blame . Later ages have construed the ...
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A. B. Grosart admiration beauty Ben Jonson breast breath bright century charm Chaucer contemporaries dead dear death delight divine doth dream Dryden E. K. Chambers Elegy English Epitaph eyes Faerie Queene fair Faithful Shepherdess fame fancy feel flowers genius gentle Geoffrey Chaucer grace hand hath heart Heaven Henry Vaughan Hesperides holy honour Hymn Ibid imagination inspiration Jonson King kiss Lady less light literary literature live Lord lover Lucasta Lycidas melody Muse nature never night noble Numbers o'er Paradise Paradise Lost passion Poems poet poet's poetic poetry praise readers Richard Crashaw Richard Lovelace rose Shakespeare shines sigh Silex sing singer smile soft song Sonnets soul Spenser spirit stanzas star sweet tears thee thou art thought Venus and Adonis verse voice weep wild William Pickering winds wings wonder writer
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Página 77 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Página 161 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 234 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 110 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest, may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown. And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul, when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Página 377 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore.
Página 115 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Página 200 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet. And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice...
Página 51 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Página 299 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 88 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.