A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - 1150 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... poetic inspiration is told by Bede , how a spirit appeared to him in a vision . and said , " Cadmon , sing me some ... poet , and astonished those about him with his miraculous verses . His poem on the Scriptures was written about 670 ...
... poetic inspiration is told by Bede , how a spirit appeared to him in a vision . and said , " Cadmon , sing me some ... poet , and astonished those about him with his miraculous verses . His poem on the Scriptures was written about 670 ...
Pagina 15
... poet Matthew Arnold . Charlemagne caused a collection to be made of the Teutonic sagas and ballads ; but the iconoclastic spirit of his suc- cessor , the superstitious Louis the Pious , was fatal dustrial pur- to every kind of ...
... poet Matthew Arnold . Charlemagne caused a collection to be made of the Teutonic sagas and ballads ; but the iconoclastic spirit of his suc- cessor , the superstitious Louis the Pious , was fatal dustrial pur- to every kind of ...
Pagina 31
... poet appears on horseback , and is represented as short of stat- ure , according to the description of himself given in " The Canterbury Tales . " The other was drawn by Occleve , on the margin of one of his own works , and is described ...
... poet appears on horseback , and is represented as short of stat- ure , according to the description of himself given in " The Canterbury Tales . " The other was drawn by Occleve , on the margin of one of his own works , and is described ...
Pagina 38
... poet , theolo- gian , and philosopher . John Gower . - A close friendship united these two poets during the greater part of their lives . They praised each other in their writings . Gower complimented Chaucer in the first edition of the ...
... poet , theolo- gian , and philosopher . John Gower . - A close friendship united these two poets during the greater part of their lives . They praised each other in their writings . Gower complimented Chaucer in the first edition of the ...
Pagina 39
... poets Are now - a - days . - Masque of the Fortunate Isles . John Lydgate . - Though still a young man at the time of Chaucer's death , Lydgate had doubtless acquired some reputation as a poet . He professed himself a disciple of ...
... poets Are now - a - days . - Masque of the Fortunate Isles . John Lydgate . - Though still a young man at the time of Chaucer's death , Lydgate had doubtless acquired some reputation as a poet . He professed himself a disciple of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 159 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Pagina 255 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pagina 159 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Pagina 347 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Pagina 162 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Pagina 449 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Pagina 457 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pagina 159 - 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.
Pagina 203 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Pagina 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.