Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 páginas |
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... Spenser 23 LECTURE III . On Shakspeare and Miltoħ 52 LECTURE IV . On Dryden and Pope 82 LECTURE V. On Thomson and Cowper 102 LECTURE VI . On Swift , Young , Gray , Collins , & c . 124 LECTURE VII . On Burns , and the old English Ballads ...
... Spenser 23 LECTURE III . On Shakspeare and Miltoħ 52 LECTURE IV . On Dryden and Pope 82 LECTURE V. On Thomson and Cowper 102 LECTURE VI . On Swift , Young , Gray , Collins , & c . 124 LECTURE VII . On Burns , and the old English Ballads ...
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... Spenser's de- scription of the Satyrs accompanying Una to the cave of Sylvanus . " So from the ground she fearless doth arise , And walketh forth without suspect of crime . They , all as glad as birds of joyous prime , Thence lead her ...
... Spenser's de- scription of the Satyrs accompanying Una to the cave of Sylvanus . " So from the ground she fearless doth arise , And walketh forth without suspect of crime . They , all as glad as birds of joyous prime , Thence lead her ...
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... of that feeling which makes him so often complain , " Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! " LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . HAVING , 223 [ LECTURE I. 22 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
... of that feeling which makes him so often complain , " Roll on , ye dark brown years , ye bring no joy on your wing to Ossian ! " LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . HAVING , 223 [ LECTURE I. 22 ON POETRY IN GENERAL .
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... Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much indebted to the earlier poets of Italy , and may be consider- ed ... SPENSER . LECTURE II On Chaucer and Spenser.
... Spenser , two out of four of the greatest names in poetry which this country has to boast . Both of them , however , were much indebted to the earlier poets of Italy , and may be consider- ed ... SPENSER . LECTURE II On Chaucer and Spenser.
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... Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effemi- nate as Chaucer's was stern and masculine , was equally engaged ... Spenser's mind the more from the " close pent- up " scenes of ordinary life , and to make him " rive their con ...
... Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effemi- nate as Chaucer's was stern and masculine , was equally engaged ... Spenser's mind the more from the " close pent- up " scenes of ordinary life , and to make him " rive their con ...
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Página 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Página 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Página 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Página 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...