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... Knight's Tale - Squire's Tale - Story of Griselda - Comic Tales -The two Prose Tales - Rime of Sir Thopas - Parson's Tale-- Language of Chaucer - The Flower and the Leaf 28 CHAPTER III . SIDNEY AND SPENSER . Elizabethan Era - ( vii )
... Knight's Tale - Squire's Tale - Story of Griselda - Comic Tales -The two Prose Tales - Rime of Sir Thopas - Parson's Tale-- Language of Chaucer - The Flower and the Leaf 28 CHAPTER III . SIDNEY AND SPENSER . Elizabethan Era - ( vii )
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... Comic Tales - The two Prose Tales - Rime of Sir Thopas -Parson's Tale - Language of Chaucer - The Flower and the Leaf . NEITHER the plan nor the extent of the present volume will permit us to give a detailed history of all the ...
... Comic Tales - The two Prose Tales - Rime of Sir Thopas -Parson's Tale - Language of Chaucer - The Flower and the Leaf . NEITHER the plan nor the extent of the present volume will permit us to give a detailed history of all the ...
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... comic tales the following will be found the most excellent : -The Nun's Priest's Tale , a droll logue of the Cock and the Fox , in which the very absurdity of some of the accompaniments confers one of the highest qualities which a fable ...
... comic tales the following will be found the most excellent : -The Nun's Priest's Tale , a droll logue of the Cock and the Fox , in which the very absurdity of some of the accompaniments confers one of the highest qualities which a fable ...
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... comic into dramas whose principal action was so solemn and supernatural . Ludicrous scenes , however , they were obliged to have ; for the people were in far too rude a state to be able to sit listen- ing for so long a time to purely ...
... comic into dramas whose principal action was so solemn and supernatural . Ludicrous scenes , however , they were obliged to have ; for the people were in far too rude a state to be able to sit listen- ing for so long a time to purely ...
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... comic character of the mysteries ; to which , wherever possible , they added other buffoons of a like ludicrous colour , generally selected among the wicked human personages of the drama . Thus , in the miracle - play of the ' Massacre ...
... comic character of the mysteries ; to which , wherever possible , they added other buffoons of a like ludicrous colour , generally selected among the wicked human personages of the drama . Thus , in the miracle - play of the ' Massacre ...
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Page 348 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 212 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 336 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 266 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 181 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
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Page 243 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write ; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
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Page 242 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Page 110 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.