Essay on English poetryJohn Murray, 1819 |
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... of the fourteenth century our language seems to have been inun- dated with metrical romances , until the public taste had been palled , by the mediocrity and monotony of the greater part of them . ENGLISH POETRY . 59.
... of the fourteenth century our language seems to have been inun- dated with metrical romances , until the public taste had been palled , by the mediocrity and monotony of the greater part of them . ENGLISH POETRY . 59.
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... taste of Chaucer . In modern poetry , his first , and long con- tinued , predilection was attracted by the new and allegorical style of romance , which had sprung up , in France , in the thirteenth century , under William de Lorris . We ...
... taste of Chaucer . In modern poetry , his first , and long con- tinued , predilection was attracted by the new and allegorical style of romance , which had sprung up , in France , in the thirteenth century , under William de Lorris . We ...
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... taste . The prevailing fault of English diction , in the fifteenth century , is redundant ornament , and an affectation of anglicising Latin words . In this pedantry and use of “ aureate terms , " the Scottish versifiers went even ...
... taste . The prevailing fault of English diction , in the fifteenth century , is redundant ornament , and an affectation of anglicising Latin words . In this pedantry and use of “ aureate terms , " the Scottish versifiers went even ...
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... taste of Italian poetry . It is certainly very tiresome to follow Hawes's hero , Grandamour , through all his ad- ventures , studying grammar , rhetoric , and arithmetic , in the tower of Doctrine ; afterwards slaughtering giants , who ...
... taste of Italian poetry . It is certainly very tiresome to follow Hawes's hero , Grandamour , through all his ad- ventures , studying grammar , rhetoric , and arithmetic , in the tower of Doctrine ; afterwards slaughtering giants , who ...
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... taste , that naturally delighted in squalid subjects of description . Barclay , indeed , though he has some stanzas which might be quoted for their strength of thought and felicity of expression , is , upon the whole , the least ...
... taste , that naturally delighted in squalid subjects of description . Barclay , indeed , though he has some stanzas which might be quoted for their strength of thought and felicity of expression , is , upon the whole , the least ...
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admiration allegorical ancient antiquity appear ballads beauty Ben Jonson Canterbury Tales certainly character Chaucer Chro Chronicle classical comedy Conquest contemporaries doth drama Dryden EARL Elizabeth Ellis England English poetry Erceldoun eyes fable Fairy Queen fancy feeling fiction fifteenth Fletcher French genius Gorboduc grace guage hath heart Henry Henry VIII humour JOHN Jonson Langlande language Latin Layamon's literature Lord Surrey lover manner ment metrical romance Milton mind Mirror for Magistrates modern moral Muse native nature Norman opinion original passion period pieces poem poet poetical prose racter reign of Edward rhyme Ritson Robert of Gloucester romance poetry satire Saxon Scottish Shakespeare shew sixteenth century song speak specimen Spenser spirit story style supposed Surrey sweet taste thee thirteenth century THOMAS Thomas the Rhymer thou Tidore tion tragedy translation verse versifier Warton WILLIAM William of Malmsbury words writers
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Seite 268 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Seite 268 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring" through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,
Seite 222 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.
Seite 245 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Seite 269 - So Zembla's rocks (the beauteous work of frost) Rise white in air, and glitter o'er the coast ; Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on th' impassive ice the lightnings play ; Eternal snows the growing mass supply, Till the bright mountains prop th' incumbent sky ; As Atlas fix'd, each hoary pile appears, The gather'd winter of a thousand years.
Seite 36 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Seite 111 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Seite 143 - Eva, plac'd in perfect happiness, Lending her praise-notes to the liberal heavens, Struck with the accents of Arch-angels' tunes, Wrought not more pleasure to her husband's thoughts, Than this fair woman's words and notes to mine.
Seite 119 - From ears to hear, and eyes to see. And when in mind I did consent To follow thus my fancy's will, And when my heart did first relent To taste such bait myself to spill, I would my heart had been as thine, Or else thy heart as soft as mine.
Seite 175 - Within a little silent grove hard by, Upon a small ascent, he might espy A stately chapel, richly gilt without, Beset with shady sycamores about: And ever and anon he might well hear A sound of music steal in at his ear >. As the wind gave it being...