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... kind of truth and sincerity altogether different from the sincere but fantastic artificiality of the seventeenth century lyrists , or the grave insincerity of the poets of the eighteenth century . In those modern poets , weighed down ...
... kind of truth and sincerity altogether different from the sincere but fantastic artificiality of the seventeenth century lyrists , or the grave insincerity of the poets of the eighteenth century . In those modern poets , weighed down ...
Page xi
... kind of puppet full of perfect words , to the great series of Histories , the tremendous series of Tragedies , the exquisite and lovely Comedies , in which he seems to have sounded the heights and depths of life on every side , ignoring ...
... kind of puppet full of perfect words , to the great series of Histories , the tremendous series of Tragedies , the exquisite and lovely Comedies , in which he seems to have sounded the heights and depths of life on every side , ignoring ...
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... kind of solitude almost monastic that he suddenly retired after the production of " The Tempest " in 1613 , reconciled at last to a continua . silence , allowing life and all the greatness and renown that he had known and understood ...
... kind of solitude almost monastic that he suddenly retired after the production of " The Tempest " in 1613 , reconciled at last to a continua . silence , allowing life and all the greatness and renown that he had known and understood ...
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... kind perfect . One discovers there a dainty and cheerful spirit of pleasure , a certain ritual of life that is exquisite and beautiful in itself no less in his sacred than in his profane verse . With all the passion and beauty of Carew ...
... kind perfect . One discovers there a dainty and cheerful spirit of pleasure , a certain ritual of life that is exquisite and beautiful in itself no less in his sacred than in his profane verse . With all the passion and beauty of Carew ...
Page xvii
... kind of re- spectableness with which we can have but little patience . It is in Blake that we find again a poet who can sing , and indeed he stands at the head of those poets who have made the nineteenth century so glorious . He died in ...
... kind of re- spectableness with which we can have but little patience . It is in Blake that we find again a poet who can sing , and indeed he stands at the head of those poets who have made the nineteenth century so glorious . He died in ...
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Airs by Thomas awake beams beauty beauty's BEN JONSON birds blush Book of Airs bosom bower breast breath bright brow chaste cheeks dare dear death delight doth dream echo ring EDMUND SPENSER eyes face fair Samela fear fire flame flowers golden goodly grace hair hand hath hear heart heaven heavenly Heigh honour Hymen JOHN DRYDEN kiss lady light lips live look love thee Love's lovers lute maid MICHAEL DRAYTON never night numbers o'er pain passion pity pleasure praise is due ROBERT HERRICK rose SAMUEL DANIEL Say nay shine sigh sing SIR JOHN SUCKLING SIR PHILIP SIDNEY sleep smiles soft song of praise sonnets sorrow soul stars stay sweet tears tell thine THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAREW THOMAS LODGE thou art thoughts unto verse voice WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR wanton weep WILLIAM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wilt thou leave wings woods may answer
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Page 150 - The floating clouds their state. shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 50 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
Page 107 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 52 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have expressed Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 47 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 178 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.
Page 185 - BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 49 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd...
Page 75 - Sweet air blow soft, mount larks aloft To give my Love good-morrow ! Wings from the wind to please her mind Notes from the lark I'll borrow ; Bird prune thy wing, nightingale sing, To give my Love good-morrow ; To give my Love good-morrow Notes from them both I'll borrow.
Page 12 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death : jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.