A History of English Poetry, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, 1904 - English poetry |
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Æneid afterwards allegorical allegory ancient Arcadia Ariosto beauty cæsura canto character Chaucer chivalry Christian Church classical composition conception Court courtier death doth dramatic Duke Earl Eclogue Elizabeth England English poetry Euphues Euphuistic Europe example expression Faery Queen favour feeling feudal Gabriel Harvey Gascoigne Gavin Douglas genius George Gascoigne Grosart hath heart honour Ibid ideal ideas imagination imitation influence Interlude Italian Italy King knight Lady language Languet Latin learning lines literary Lord Lyly Machiavelli manner matter mediæval metrical mind Mirror for Magistrates Miscellanies moral nature noble Orlando Orlando Furioso pastoral Petrarch play poem poet poetical prince principle reader refinement Reformation reign rhyme romance Sackville satire says seems Sidney's sixteenth century sonnet Spenser spirit stanza style Surrey Surrey's syllable taste thee things Thomas thou thought tion Tottel's Miscellany tragedy translation unto verse virtue words write Wyatt
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Page 411 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Page 63 - O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak : O Lord, heal me ; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed : but thou, O Lord how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul : oh save me for thy mercies
Page 232 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Page 232 - Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Page 246 - Ilias, the other in his Odysseis : then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Page 259 - Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books...
Page 390 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of War...
Page 172 - SING lullaby, as women do, Wherewith they bring their babes to rest, And lullaby can I sing too, As womanly as can the best. With lullaby they still the child, And if I be not much beguiled, Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.
Page 407 - But how unseemly is it for my sex, My discipline of arms and chivalry, My nature, and the terror of my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint!
Page 285 - 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...