Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young ReadersSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1883 - 406 páginas |
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... written in French , and his " Vox Clamantis " in Latin . This English poem , in Mrs. Barrett Browning's judgment , " proves an abundant fancy , a full head , and a full heart , and neither ineloquent ; " and she " considers that the ...
... written in French , and his " Vox Clamantis " in Latin . This English poem , in Mrs. Barrett Browning's judgment , " proves an abundant fancy , a full head , and a full heart , and neither ineloquent ; " and she " considers that the ...
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... written in exactly the same strain of fondling affection . " This is true ; and there are other indications which will remind those familiar with the writings of Skelton and Swift that these clerical humorists and verse - makers had ...
... written in exactly the same strain of fondling affection . " This is true ; and there are other indications which will remind those familiar with the writings of Skelton and Swift that these clerical humorists and verse - makers had ...
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... written verses before entering the university , which he left in 1576 , after taking his Master's degree . Meanwhile he had won two warm friends , Edward Kirke and Gabriel Harvey , the latter of whom was destined to influence , not ...
... written verses before entering the university , which he left in 1576 , after taking his Master's degree . Meanwhile he had won two warm friends , Edward Kirke and Gabriel Harvey , the latter of whom was destined to influence , not ...
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... written , or are lost . As it is , there are six books and a portion of a seventh , instead of the twelve books designed by the poet , and each book , it has been justly said , may be considered as almost amounting in quantity to an ...
... written , or are lost . As it is , there are six books and a portion of a seventh , instead of the twelve books designed by the poet , and each book , it has been justly said , may be considered as almost amounting in quantity to an ...
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... written . " Another objection often made to the " Faerie Queene " is the archaic character of the language . Spenser is in the habit of using words that had ceased to be used in his own day . He goes to Chaucer for old forms , wishing ...
... written . " Another objection often made to the " Faerie Queene " is the archaic character of the language . Spenser is in the habit of using words that had ceased to be used in his own day . He goes to Chaucer for old forms , wishing ...
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Heroes of Literature: English Poets. A Book for Young Readers John Dennis Visualização completa - 1883 |
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Absalom and Achitophel admiration Andrew Marvell ballads beauty Ben Jonson biography Burns Byron called century character Charles Lamb charm Chaucer Cloth boards Coleridge Cowley Cowper critics Dean Church death delight died doubt Dryden Dunciad edition English poet essay expression eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy father faults feeling gained genius George Wither Grasmere happy heart Herrick honour imagination John Jonson judgment Keats Keble labour language letters lines literary literature live Lord Lord Byron Lycidas lyric Milton nature never noble o'er Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps pleasure poct poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose published rhyme satire Scott Shakespeare Shelley song sonnets Southey Spenser spirit stanzas Stopford Brooke student style sweet thee Thomas Gray Thomson thou thought tion true verse volume words Wordsworth worthy writes written wrote young readers youth
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Página 24 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 190 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 124 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Página 92 - They are all gone into the world of light ! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, After the sun's remove.
Página 254 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much: Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 238 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 271 - Here pause — and, thro' the starting tear, Survey this grave. The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
Página 105 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 140 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Página 263 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.