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Pagina 56
... Italy , Chaucer acquitted himself to his royal employer's satisfaction ; for , from this time forth , we find him distinguished by repeated marks of the king's favour . In April 1374 he received a grant for life of a gallon of wine ...
... Italy , Chaucer acquitted himself to his royal employer's satisfaction ; for , from this time forth , we find him distinguished by repeated marks of the king's favour . In April 1374 he received a grant for life of a gallon of wine ...
Pagina 63
... Italian languages , he very generally prefers the inflection of the latter , either as think- ing them more sonorous , or because they are nearer to the original ; and that , in his descriptive poetry , he is GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 63.
... Italian languages , he very generally prefers the inflection of the latter , either as think- ing them more sonorous , or because they are nearer to the original ; and that , in his descriptive poetry , he is GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 63.
Pagina 64
... Italian poetry ( from which his favourite metre is unquestionably derived ) , with a view of refining our numbers , and improving our language by words borrowed from the more polished languages of the continent . " With respect to his ...
... Italian poetry ( from which his favourite metre is unquestionably derived ) , with a view of refining our numbers , and improving our language by words borrowed from the more polished languages of the continent . " With respect to his ...
Pagina 65
... Italian , or French imitation . The characters of Theophrastus are not so lively , peculiar , and appropriated . " The best edition of the Canterbury Tales is that of Mr. Wright . F The happy and successful manner with which Chaucer ...
... Italian , or French imitation . The characters of Theophrastus are not so lively , peculiar , and appropriated . " The best edition of the Canterbury Tales is that of Mr. Wright . F The happy and successful manner with which Chaucer ...
Pagina 72
... Italy , and returned a complete master of the language and literature of both countries . He chiefly studied the Italian and French poets , particularly Dante , Boccaccio , and Alain Chartier ; and became so distinguished a proficient ...
... Italy , and returned a complete master of the language and literature of both countries . He chiefly studied the Italian and French poets , particularly Dante , Boccaccio , and Alain Chartier ; and became so distinguished a proficient ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 212 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Pagina 192 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
Pagina 185 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Pagina 187 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Pagina 311 - Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding.
Pagina 194 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Pagina 186 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pagina 60 - For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers...
Pagina 288 - His chiefest recreation was Musick, in which heavenly Art he was a most excellent Master, and did himself compose many divine Hymns and Anthems, which he set and sung to his Lute or Viol...
Pagina 322 - Orpheus' lyre : If she sit down, with tops all tow'rds her bow'd, They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks, in even ranks they stand, Like some well-marshal'd and obsequious band.