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Page xii
... better means of access to the originals . Dryden's work still remains of a very high order . His catholicity of taste enabled him to choose really happy stories , and , once given his material , his skill in retelling a story in ...
... better means of access to the originals . Dryden's work still remains of a very high order . His catholicity of taste enabled him to choose really happy stories , and , once given his material , his skill in retelling a story in ...
Page xiii
... better thoughts . I have presumed farther in some places ; and have added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient and had not given his thoughts their true lustre , for want of words in the beginning of our language ...
... better thoughts . I have presumed farther in some places ; and have added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient and had not given his thoughts their true lustre , for want of words in the beginning of our language ...
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... better for grandeur and completeness of treatment than this . Both our poets recognized the fitness of the story for a great popular narrative and its literary excellence , and by treating it as the times de- manded , each in his own ...
... better for grandeur and completeness of treatment than this . Both our poets recognized the fitness of the story for a great popular narrative and its literary excellence , and by treating it as the times de- manded , each in his own ...
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... better than Chaucer's account . Lines 574-658 of Book III . certainly present a very vivid picture . The closing lines of the passage are admirable : 66 The sound of trumpets to the voice replied , And round the royal lists the heralds ...
... better than Chaucer's account . Lines 574-658 of Book III . certainly present a very vivid picture . The closing lines of the passage are admirable : 66 The sound of trumpets to the voice replied , And round the royal lists the heralds ...
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... better put . In his use of the Alexandrine , too , we note his skill , as , for example , " Till sense was lost in sound , and silence fled the place ” ( II . , 575 ) , and " Then grasped the hand he held , and sighed his soul away ...
... better put . In his use of the Alexandrine , too , we note his skill , as , for example , " Till sense was lost in sound , and silence fled the place ” ( II . , 575 ) , and " Then grasped the hand he held , and sighed his soul away ...
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Page 91 - 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. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Page 47 - The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair; Big-boned and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long.
Page xvii - Turn'd only to the grove his horse's reins, The grove I named before ; and, lighted there, A woodbine garland sought to crown his hair ; Then turn'd his face against the rising day, And raised his voice to welcome in the May: ' For thee, sweet month, the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year : For thee the graces lead the dancing hours, And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers : When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun The sultry tropic fears, and moves more...
Page 10 - At every turn, she made a little stand, And thrust among the thorns her lily hand To draw the rose, and every rose she drew She shook the stalk, and brush'd away the dew: Then party-colour'd flowers of white and red She wove, to make a garland for her head: This done, she sung and caroll'd out so clear, That men and angels might rejoice to hear: Even wondering Philomel forgot to sing; And learn'd from her to welcome in the spring.
Page 90 - ... he has taken into the compass of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humors (as we now call them) of the whole English nation in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 92 - Ilias or the jEneis: the story is more pleasing than either of them, the manners as perfect, the diction as poetical, the learning as deep and various, and the disposition full as artful; only it includes a greater length of time, as taking up seven years at least...
Page 48 - Ruddy his lips, and fresh and fair his hue ; Some sprinkled freckles on his face were seen, Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
Page 63 - The herald ends ; the vaulted firmament With loud acclaims and vast applause is rent : Heaven guard a prince so gracious and so good, So just, and yet so provident of blood ! This was the general cry. The trumpets sound, And warlike symphony is heard around. The marching troops through Athens take their way, The great earl-marshal orders their array.
Page 48 - Some sprinkled freckles on his face were seen, Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin. His awful presence did the crowd surprise, Nor durst the rash spectator meet his eyes; Eyes that confessed him born for kingly sway, 80 So fierce, they flashed intolerable day.
Page 90 - The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but 'tis like the eloquence of one whom Tacitus commends, it was auribus istius temporis accommodata: they who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so, even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.