Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critcal Notices and An Essay on English Poetry |
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... mean time let it be recollected , that if we have not rhyme in the vernacular verse , we have exam- ples of it in the poetry of the Anglo - Saxon churchmen- abundance of it in Bede's and Boniface'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 exam- ples of it in the poetry of the Anglo - Saxon churchmen- abundance of it in Bede's and Boniface's Latin verses . We meet also , in the ...
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... mean time , fraught with events which , while they undermined the feudal system , gradu- ally prepared the way for ... means of mis- sile destruction in war , and the improvement of tactics , would have narrowed that scope for the ...
... mean time , fraught with events which , while they undermined the feudal system , gradu- ally prepared the way for ... means of mis- sile destruction in war , and the improvement of tactics , would have narrowed that scope for the ...
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... means to suppose that Robert of Brunne behaved himself otherwise than became a good Christian , during his whole abode there . " This conclusive reasoning , it may be hoped , will entirely set at rest any idle suspicions that may have ...
... means to suppose that Robert of Brunne behaved himself otherwise than became a good Christian , during his whole abode there . " This conclusive reasoning , it may be hoped , will entirely set at rest any idle suspicions that may have ...
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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 re- formers ...
... 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 re- formers ...
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... mean capacity must be taken with a bushel of doubt . - CAMPBELL , Life of Shak- speare , 8vo , 1838 , p . xxii.-C. † The Mysteries Mr. Collier would have called Miracle- Plays , and the Moralities , Morals or Moral - Plays . - C ...
... mean capacity must be taken with a bushel of doubt . - CAMPBELL , Life of Shak- speare , 8vo , 1838 , p . xxii.-C. † The Mysteries Mr. Collier would have called Miracle- Plays , and the Moralities , Morals or Moral - Plays . - C ...
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Aret beauty behold Ben Jonson bless blood Born breast breath bright Cham Chaucer CLEORA Corb court dear death delight Died dost doth Duch Duchess of Malfi Earl earth English eyes fair fame fancy fate father fear flame genius give grace grief hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Hengo honour Hudibras Jonson king kiss lady language Layamon Leost Leosthenes light live look Lord maid Massinissa mind Mirror for Magistrates Muse NATHANIEL FIELD nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er passion pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise prince queen quoth Robert of Gloucester Saxon Scotland seem'd shade Shakspeare shine sight sing smile song sorrow soul speak spirit sweet taste tears tell thee thine thing thou art thought Twas unto verse virtue wanton whilst wind wretch youth
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Page 139 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 264 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 264 - I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty.
Page 139 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 312 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, — why was the sight To such a tender ball as...
Page 311 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 101 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Page 341 - 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.
Page 117 - Tell fortune of her blindness; Tell nature of decay; Tell friendship of unkindness; Tell justice of delay. And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming. If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth; Tell manhood shakes off" pity; Tell virtue least preferreth.
Page 139 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...