Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 ページ |
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... songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal lines . The impressions of the ...
... songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal lines . The impressions of the ...
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... songs and tales , and for the exhibition of those feats of activity which formed part of their performance . They were at once poets , vocalists , and jugglers ; and however * Which took place before the seventh century . primitive ...
... songs and tales , and for the exhibition of those feats of activity which formed part of their performance . They were at once poets , vocalists , and jugglers ; and however * Which took place before the seventh century . primitive ...
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... songs of Charlemagne and Roland , and rushed , sword in hand , amidst the Saxon ranks , where he perished . The Norman minstrels are supposed to have been descendants of the scalds , and to have been celebrated in the north of France ...
... songs of Charlemagne and Roland , and rushed , sword in hand , amidst the Saxon ranks , where he perished . The Norman minstrels are supposed to have been descendants of the scalds , and to have been celebrated in the north of France ...
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... songs ; and Langlande , the author of the Visions of Piers Plowman . Yet these were but unworthy precursors of Chaucer . Their poetry was generally vague , tedious , and obscure , their language harsh and unsettled ; their fancies weak ...
... songs ; and Langlande , the author of the Visions of Piers Plowman . Yet these were but unworthy precursors of Chaucer . Their poetry was generally vague , tedious , and obscure , their language harsh and unsettled ; their fancies weak ...
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... songs which are still popular . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY , who , for his accomplishments and the similarity of their positions , has been compared to Surrey , was at once a hero , a politician , and a poet . Refined in his manners , chivalrous ...
... songs which are still popular . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY , who , for his accomplishments and the similarity of their positions , has been compared to Surrey , was at once a hero , a politician , and a poet . Refined in his manners , chivalrous ...
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38 ページ - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
71 ページ - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
99 ページ - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
101 ページ - Why am I thus bereav'd 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.
77 ページ - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
39 ページ - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
103 ページ - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
77 ページ - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
101 ページ - 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 the eye confined?
103 ページ - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.