Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to HerrickRosaline Orme Masson |
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... close together in their historical succession , they even press certain things upon the attention more effectively than would a course of diffuse reading . Passing from poet to poet , and from group to group of poets , one notes more ...
... close together in their historical succession , they even press certain things upon the attention more effectively than would a course of diffuse reading . Passing from poet to poet , and from group to group of poets , one notes more ...
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... close and patient scrutiny of his own writings . His name does not occur in the public records , nor in the works of his literary contemporaries . He appears to have been born in the west of England , probably in Shropshire , and to ...
... close and patient scrutiny of his own writings . His name does not occur in the public records , nor in the works of his literary contemporaries . He appears to have been born in the west of England , probably in Shropshire , and to ...
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... , underlying the alli- terative beat , like an obligato accompaniment to a melody . The final mute e was probably sounded in Langland's verse , so as to form a weak syllable at the close 58 THREE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY .
... , underlying the alli- terative beat , like an obligato accompaniment to a melody . The final mute e was probably sounded in Langland's verse , so as to form a weak syllable at the close 58 THREE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH POETRY .
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... close of lines . This custom is , however , opposed to modern English taste ; and , when the weak final syllable , which is almost invariable , is represented by a mute e , it may be omitted without injury to the poem as a literary work ...
... close of lines . This custom is , however , opposed to modern English taste ; and , when the weak final syllable , which is almost invariable , is represented by a mute e , it may be omitted without injury to the poem as a literary work ...
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... close of Edward I.'s reign and the first seven years of that of Edward II . must always be accounted one of the most eventful and romantic in Scottish history . Those were the years of the " War of Independence , " during which Robert ...
... close of Edward I.'s reign and the first seven years of that of Edward II . must always be accounted one of the most eventful and romantic in Scottish history . Those were the years of the " War of Independence , " during which Robert ...
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Page 331 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 387 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Page 356 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
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Page 329 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
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Page 324 - Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right ; To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, And smear with dust their glittering golden towers : 1 To fill with worm-holes stately monuments, To feed oblivion with decay of things, To blot old books, and alter their contents, To pluck the quills from ancient ravens...
Page 360 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.