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... sentiment . It differs from the ge- nerality of minstrel poems , in its bearing the appearance of an unaffected narration , and in its metre , which is of the kind called epic - that is , a series of rhymed couplets , in lines of ten ...
... sentiment . It differs from the ge- nerality of minstrel poems , in its bearing the appearance of an unaffected narration , and in its metre , which is of the kind called epic - that is , a series of rhymed couplets , in lines of ten ...
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... sentiment and spirit , a command of phraseology , and a fertility of imagination , not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate . ' Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is , that the influences which operated ...
... sentiment and spirit , a command of phraseology , and a fertility of imagination , not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lydgate . ' Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is , that the influences which operated ...
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... sentiments , unknown before , and of the richest and most interesting kind . Among other circumstances favourable to literature at this period , must be reckoned the encouragement given to it by Queen Elizabeth , who was herself very ...
... sentiments , unknown before , and of the richest and most interesting kind . Among other circumstances favourable to literature at this period , must be reckoned the encouragement given to it by Queen Elizabeth , who was herself very ...
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... sentiment , as well as of information and of philosophy , lay ready for the use of those who posses- sed the gift , and was appropriated accordingly . As might be expected , where there was less rule of art than opulence of materials ...
... sentiment , as well as of information and of philosophy , lay ready for the use of those who posses- sed the gift , and was appropriated accordingly . As might be expected , where there was less rule of art than opulence of materials ...
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... sentiment , fertility of ex- pression , and happy combinations ; and the Emblems , at least , have been reprinted , and assigned a respectable place in the libraries of both the devout , and those who read from motives of taste . During ...
... sentiment , fertility of ex- pression , and happy combinations ; and the Emblems , at least , have been reprinted , and assigned a respectable place in the libraries of both the devout , and those who read from motives of taste . During ...
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History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers] Robert Chambers Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1857 |
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Sida 201 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Sida 133 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Sida 25 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Sida 108 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Sida 30 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Sida 45 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Sida 71 - twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Sida 69 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Sida 102 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Sida 76 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.