Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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Página 52
... stories as men find , The grete Emetrius , the king of Inde , Upon a stede bay , trapped in stele , Covered with cloth of gold diapred wele , Came riding like the god of armes Mars . His cote - armure was of a cloth of Tars , Couched ...
... stories as men find , The grete Emetrius , the king of Inde , Upon a stede bay , trapped in stele , Covered with cloth of gold diapred wele , Came riding like the god of armes Mars . His cote - armure was of a cloth of Tars , Couched ...
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... have a fellow- feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
... have a fellow- feeling in the interest of the story ; and render back the sentiment of the speaker's mind . One of the finest parts of Chaucer is of this mixed kind . It is the beginning of the Flower and ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER . 53.
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... and looked grim as he were wood . A wolf ther stood beforne him at his fete With eyen red , and of a man he ete . ” The story of Griselda is in Boccaccio ; but the Clerk of Oxenforde , who tells it , professes to ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... and looked grim as he were wood . A wolf ther stood beforne him at his fete With eyen red , and of a man he ete . ” The story of Griselda is in Boccaccio ; but the Clerk of Oxenforde , who tells it , professes to ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
Página 60
... story has gone all aver Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the circumstances , which are abominable , the sentiment remains unimpaired and unalterable . It is of that kind , " that heaves no sigh ...
... story has gone all aver Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the circumstances , which are abominable , the sentiment remains unimpaired and unalterable . It is of that kind , " that heaves no sigh ...
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... story of the little child slain in Jewry , ( which is told by the Prioress , and worthy to be told by her who was " all conscience and tender heart , " ) is not less touching than that of Griselda . It is simple and heroic to the last ...
... story of the little child slain in Jewry , ( which is told by the Prioress , and worthy to be told by her who was " all conscience and tender heart , " ) is not less touching than that of Griselda . It is simple and heroic to the last ...
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.