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... Palamon and Arcite ; or , The Knight's Tale , 245 Dedication to the Duchess of Ormond , . 248 • Book I. , 255 Book II . , 275 Book III . , 297 The Cock and the Fox ; or , The Tale of the Nun's Priest ,. 337 The Flower and the Leaf ; or ...
... Palamon and Arcite ; or , The Knight's Tale , 245 Dedication to the Duchess of Ormond , . 248 • Book I. , 255 Book II . , 275 Book III . , 297 The Cock and the Fox ; or , The Tale of the Nun's Priest ,. 337 The Flower and the Leaf ; or ...
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... our Englishman has borrowed many of his " Canterbury Tales . " Yet that of Palamon and Arcite " was written , in all pro- bability , by some Italian wit , in a former age , 66 as I shall prove hereafter . The tale of " 218 PREFACE .
... our Englishman has borrowed many of his " Canterbury Tales . " Yet that of Palamon and Arcite " was written , in all pro- bability , by some Italian wit , in a former age , 66 as I shall prove hereafter . The tale of " 218 PREFACE .
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... Palamon . What would Ovid have done on this occasion ? He would certainly have made Arcite witty on his deathbed ; -he had complained he was further off from possession , by being so near , and a thousand such boyisms , which Chaucer ...
... Palamon . What would Ovid have done on this occasion ? He would certainly have made Arcite witty on his deathbed ; -he had complained he was further off from possession , by being so near , and a thousand such boyisms , which Chaucer ...
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... Palamon and Arcite , where the temple of Diana is described , you find these verses , in all the editions of our author- Ther saw I Dane yturned til a tree , I mene not hire the goddesse Diane , But Venus daughter , which that hight ...
... Palamon and Arcite , where the temple of Diana is described , you find these verses , in all the editions of our author- Ther saw I Dane yturned til a tree , I mene not hire the goddesse Diane , But Venus daughter , which that hight ...
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... Palamon and Arcite , " which is of the epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias , or the Æneis . The story is more pleasing than either of them , the manners as perfect , the diction as poetical , the learning as deep and ...
... Palamon and Arcite , " which is of the epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias , or the Æneis . The story is more pleasing than either of them , the manners as perfect , the diction as poetical , the learning as deep and ...
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Æneid ANNE KILLIGREW appear Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood Boccace breast called Canterbury Tales Chanticleer charms Chaucer COUNTESS OF ABINGDON coursers crowned Cymon dame daughter death divine dream Dryden Duke Emily EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate father favour fear fight fire force fortune gave Godfrey Kneller grace grief Guiscard hand happy hast heart heaven honour kind king knew knight KNIGHT'S TALE lady laurel live lord Lysimachus maid mind mortal mourning muse never noble numbers o'er once Ovid pain Palamon panegyric play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry praise prince pursue queen race rest Reynard seems sighed sight SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE song soul stood sung sweet tale Tancred tears Thebes thee Theseus thou thought took translation Twas verses Virgil virtue wife WIFE OF BATH words youth
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Page 186 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 171 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 173 - To all the blessed above ; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Page 162 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 77 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 210 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Page 187 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 172 - What passion cannot Music raise and quell ? When Jubal struck the chorded shell His listening brethren stood around. And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so wel1.
Page 190 - Now strike the golden lyre again! A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark! the horrid sound Has raised up his head! As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge! revenge!
Page 230 - Wife of Bath. But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.