First period. Second period. From Spenser to DrydenJames Nichol, 1860 |
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... Poetry on to the days of Chaucer and of Gower . Having called , in conjunction with many other critics , Chaucer ' the Father of English Poetry , ' to seek to go back further may seem like pursuing antenatal researches . But while ...
... Poetry on to the days of Chaucer and of Gower . Having called , in conjunction with many other critics , Chaucer ' the Father of English Poetry , ' to seek to go back further may seem like pursuing antenatal researches . But while ...
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... poetry was rough and bald in the extreme ; but still they furnished a food fitted for the awakening mind of the age . When the Christian religion reached Great Britain , it brought necessarily with it an impulse to intellect as well as ...
... poetry was rough and bald in the extreme ; but still they furnished a food fitted for the awakening mind of the age . When the Christian religion reached Great Britain , it brought necessarily with it an impulse to intellect as well as ...
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... poetry gave an undoubted impulse to the age's progress in letters . About this period the better sort of Saxons , both clergy and laity , got into the habit of visiting Rome ; while Rome , in her turn , sent emissaries to England . Thus ...
... poetry gave an undoubted impulse to the age's progress in letters . About this period the better sort of Saxons , both clergy and laity , got into the habit of visiting Rome ; while Rome , in her turn , sent emissaries to England . Thus ...
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... poetry . We cannot see that Caedmon's lines betray any weird inspiration ; but when rehearsed the next day to the Abbess Hilda , to whom the town - bailiff of Whitby conducted him , she and a circle of learned men pronounced that he had ...
... poetry . We cannot see that Caedmon's lines betray any weird inspiration ; but when rehearsed the next day to the Abbess Hilda , to whom the town - bailiff of Whitby conducted him , she and a circle of learned men pronounced that he had ...
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... poetry . His works in all were forty - four in number : and it is said that on the very day of his death ( it took place in 735 ) he was dictating to his amanuensis , and had just completed a book . His works are wonderful for his time ...
... poetry . His works in all were forty - four in number : and it is said that on the very day of his death ( it took place in 735 ) he was dictating to his amanuensis , and had just completed a book . His works are wonderful for his time ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Barbour beauty Ben Jonson birds Blind Harry body born breast castle Chaucer Confessio Amantis Court crown dance death died doth Dowell Earl earth English English Poetry eyes face fair feast fire flame flowers genius Geoffrey of Monmouth GILES FLETCHER gold golden Gower grace grief Hail hand Harpalus hast hath heart heaven heavenly Henry honour horse James JOHN BARBOUR JOHN GOWER JOSHUA SYLVESTER kind king lady land Layamon light live look Lord Love's lusty Lyndsay mind muse never night Nightingale noble nought nymphs Piers Plowman poem poet poetry praise prince Queen quoth Raleigh reign rich Richard Saladin Scotland shine sight sing sleep song sonnets sorrow soul spirit sweet tell thee thine things thou thought Tower tree unto verse Wallace wassail wrote youth
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Seite 275 - Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day ; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale, when May is past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more where those stars 'light That downwards fall in dead of night ; For in your eyes they sit, and there Fixed become, as in their sphere. Ask me no more if east or west The phcenix builds her spicy nest ; For unto...
Seite 115 - Townsfolk my strength ; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight, which from good use doth rise ; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance ; Others, because of both sides I do take My blood from them, who did excel in this, Think Nature me a man of arms did make. How far they shot awry ! the true cause is, STELLA looked on, and from her heavenly face Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
Seite 259 - Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Seite 113 - ... comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to her voice-music.
Seite 277 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Seite 278 - Her finger was so small, the ring Would not stay on which they did bring, It was too wide a peck : And to say truth, for out it must, ' It look'd like the great collar, just, About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light : But oh ! she dances such a way — No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Seite 209 - Thou art slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then ? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Seite 114 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Seite 122 - Times go by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow, She draws her favours to the lowest ebb; Her tides have equal times to come and go, Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web; No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend.
Seite 254 - ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse: Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.