Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 Seiten |
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... battle songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal lines . The impressions of the ...
... battle songs . The first poetry of an uncivilized race is always nervous and empassioned , abounding in grand but simple meta- phor , and preserving a tempestuous harmony through its irregular and unequal lines . The impressions of the ...
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... battle songs ; and Langlande , the author of the Visions of Piers Plowman . Yet these were but unworthy precursors of Chaucer . Their poetry was generally vague , tedious , and obscure , their language harsh and unsettled ; their ...
... battle songs ; and Langlande , the author of the Visions of Piers Plowman . Yet these were but unworthy precursors of Chaucer . Their poetry was generally vague , tedious , and obscure , their language harsh and unsettled ; their ...
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... battle field ; and celebrated the beauty of the Lady Geraldine with the gallantry , while he defended it with the courage of a knight errant . His sonnets are polished and expressive , wanting in power , yet free from that conceit which ...
... battle field ; and celebrated the beauty of the Lady Geraldine with the gallantry , while he defended it with the courage of a knight errant . His sonnets are polished and expressive , wanting in power , yet free from that conceit which ...
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... battle of Zutphen , when , being mortally wounded , he commanded the cup of water brought for his relief to be given to a dying soldier who eyed it wistfully , will be remembered as one of those beautiful traits of humanity , which ...
... battle of Zutphen , when , being mortally wounded , he commanded the cup of water brought for his relief to be given to a dying soldier who eyed it wistfully , will be remembered as one of those beautiful traits of humanity , which ...
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... Battle of Agincourt , the Baron's Wars , and England's Heroic Epistles . His chief work , the Poly - olbion is a description of our island , and full of antiquarian detail and allegorical personifications . He paints battle or hunting ...
... Battle of Agincourt , the Baron's Wars , and England's Heroic Epistles . His chief work , the Poly - olbion is a description of our island , and full of antiquarian detail and allegorical personifications . He paints battle or hunting ...
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Æneid allusion amidst angels appear battle beautiful Ben Johnson bird bold breath bright Canterbury Tales celebrated characters Chaucer composed composition Comus conceit court dark deep delight dignity doth eloquence English English poetry eternal expression fair fancy feelings flowers fugitive verses gallantry genius Geoffrey Chaucer GILES FLETCHER gloomy glowing gold happy heart heaven heroes hire human images imagination Inner Temple inspiration John of Gaunt King language learning legends light literature lived lofty looked Lord mankind mighty Milton mind minstrels moral muse narration nature night Paradise Lost passions Petrarch poem poet poetical poetry popular proud quaint refined reign religious rendered rhymes rise romance rose rude Saint Brandon sang Satan Saxon sentiment Shakspeare shew songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stream sublime sustained sweet Temple thee tree truth unto verse virtues wanting wife of Bath wild wings Wynkyn de Worde zeal