Chaucer to DonneThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan and Company, 1880 - English poetry |
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... the poet . Chaucer then is for us the first English poet , and as such has all the interest that attaches to a great original figure . But he makes no parade of his originality ; on the contrary , 2 THE ENGLISH POETS .
... the poet . Chaucer then is for us the first English poet , and as such has all the interest that attaches to a great original figure . But he makes no parade of his originality ; on the contrary , 2 THE ENGLISH POETS .
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... original genius , was in point of matter , from first to last , an imitator of the trouvères . A more rational criticism has since then put the case in a truer light , and shown not only the bold independence of his models which Chaucer ...
... original genius , was in point of matter , from first to last , an imitator of the trouvères . A more rational criticism has since then put the case in a truer light , and shown not only the bold independence of his models which Chaucer ...
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... original of the ' May morning ' passages which abound in Chaucer and his successors . Whether by Chaucer or not , it is a vigorous and exact rendering of the French . That it was May me thoughtë tho1 , It is .v . yere or more ago ; That ...
... original of the ' May morning ' passages which abound in Chaucer and his successors . Whether by Chaucer or not , it is a vigorous and exact rendering of the French . That it was May me thoughtë tho1 , It is .v . yere or more ago ; That ...
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... original ; this being the inevitable result of his obvious desire to tone down some of the more out- spoken passages , and to express a certain leaning towards conser- vatism such as frequently comes with advancing years . We are bound ...
... original ; this being the inevitable result of his obvious desire to tone down some of the more out- spoken passages , and to express a certain leaning towards conser- vatism such as frequently comes with advancing years . We are bound ...
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... original shape , as we 1 Speaking of the stories of Canace and of Appollinus of Tyre , told by Gower in his third and eighth books , Chaucer says- ' Of suche corsed stories I seye fy , ' and declares that not a word of this kind shall ...
... original shape , as we 1 Speaking of the stories of Canace and of Appollinus of Tyre , told by Gower in his third and eighth books , Chaucer says- ' Of suche corsed stories I seye fy , ' and declares that not a word of this kind shall ...
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Common terms and phrases
Aeneid Astrophel and Stella ballads beauty behold bliss Caelica Chaucer Clerk Saunders Creusa dead dear death delight doth Edom Elizabethan England's Helicon English eyes Faery Queen fair fayre fear flowers genius Glasgerion gold grace gret grief gude hand hart hast hath heart heaven herte hire honour king Kinmont Willie lady light live Lord lovers Marlowe mind mony never night nocht nought passion Petrarch play pleasure poems poet poetical poetry praise Quhat Quhen Quhilk quoth rich Robin Robin Hood sall satire sche Scotch Shakespeare Sidney Sidney's sighs sight sing sleep song sonnets sorrow soul Spenser sweet Tamburlaine tell thair thay thee ther thine thing thou thought thow Timor Mortis conturbat true unto Venus Venus and Adonis verse virtue whan wolde words write
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Page 445 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 452 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 444 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 444 - When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope...
Page xlii - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Page 446 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
Page 343 - 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...
Page 442 - Proving his beauty by succession thine! This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
Page 457 - Tu-whit, tu-who - a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl...
Page xxvii - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?