The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, Volume 2Thomas Humphry Ward |
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... writer was ever at once so varied and so serious , so voluminous and so conscien- tious . Few have been so careful about what they wrote before publication , and so careless about it afterwards . He thought that he could trust his ...
... writer was ever at once so varied and so serious , so voluminous and so conscien- tious . Few have been so careful about what they wrote before publication , and so careless about it afterwards . He thought that he could trust his ...
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... writer's mind , and the circumstances of the writing be taken into account , it may be said with truth that few criticisms at once so generous and so discerning have ever been committed to posterity by one great poet concerning another ...
... writer's mind , and the circumstances of the writing be taken into account , it may be said with truth that few criticisms at once so generous and so discerning have ever been committed to posterity by one great poet concerning another ...
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... be , so to speak , adven- titious . Thus while his masques contain more dramatic life than those of any of his contemporaries , and reveal more poetic pur- pose than those of any other English writer except Milton 4 THE ENGLISH POETS .
... be , so to speak , adven- titious . Thus while his masques contain more dramatic life than those of any of his contemporaries , and reveal more poetic pur- pose than those of any other English writer except Milton 4 THE ENGLISH POETS .
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... writer except Milton , the lyrical part of them , though always adequate , rarely challenges special admiration . The extract in heroic couplets from the Hymenai furnishes a typical instance of the thought expended by Jonson upon what ...
... writer except Milton , the lyrical part of them , though always adequate , rarely challenges special admiration . The extract in heroic couplets from the Hymenai furnishes a typical instance of the thought expended by Jonson upon what ...
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... writing of love , partly on the favourite poets ' plea of growing age ; and in truth his muse was comparatively a stranger to Eros . Yet the little chaplet of tributes to ' Charis ' put together by Jonson in 1624 and inserted in the ...
... writing of love , partly on the favourite poets ' plea of growing age ; and in truth his muse was comparatively a stranger to Eros . Yet the little chaplet of tributes to ' Charis ' put together by Jonson in 1624 and inserted in the ...
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Absalom and Achitophel beauty Ben Jonson born breast breath bright Carew Castara Catullus Comus Cowley crown death delight died divine dost doth Dryden earth EDMUND W English eyes fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers genius Giles Fletcher glory grace Habington hand happy hast hath heart heaven hell Herbert heroic couplet Herrick Hesperides hill honour Hudibras Jonson King kiss Lady light live Lord Lovelace Lycidas maid masques Milton mind mistress Muse never night o'er once Paradise Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passion Perilla pleasure poems poet poet's poetic poetry praise pride rhyme rose sacred satire shade shalt shine sigh sight sing sleep song sonnet soul stars tears thee thine things thou thought unto verse Waller wanton weep WILLIAM HABINGTON winds wings write youth
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Page 315 - And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 218 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, poor captives, creep to death.
Page 218 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made : With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 309 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 178 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 337 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 309 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 307 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 301 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 357 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal spring.