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... poem , the picturesque vigor of which gives it a right to be placed among the most interesting monuments of early literature , is not inferior in energy and conciseness to the Nibe- lungen - Lied , though undeniably so in extent of plot ...
... poem , the picturesque vigor of which gives it a right to be placed among the most interesting monuments of early literature , is not inferior in energy and conciseness to the Nibe- lungen - Lied , though undeniably so in extent of plot ...
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... poets , both of the Northern and Southern dialects , drew the materials for their chivalric fictions , great diversity has prevailed ; and the various theories which have been broached on this curious subject may be practically reduced ...
... poets , both of the Northern and Southern dialects , drew the materials for their chivalric fictions , great diversity has prevailed ; and the various theories which have been broached on this curious subject may be practically reduced ...
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... poem , and appears to have supplied Milton with some hints . One passage strikingly resembles Mil- ton's soliloquy of Satan in hell . CYNEWULF ( in Latin Kenulphus ) , a monk of Winchester , and abbot of Peterborough in 992 , is highly ...
... poem , and appears to have supplied Milton with some hints . One passage strikingly resembles Mil- ton's soliloquy of Satan in hell . CYNEWULF ( in Latin Kenulphus ) , a monk of Winchester , and abbot of Peterborough in 992 , is highly ...
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... poets . He also wrote a pedition to Palestine . But the whole style was Latin poem entitled Antiocheïs , on Richard's ex- doomed to extinction before a more vigorous rival sprang up in imitation of the French minstrelsy - and it had ...
... poets . He also wrote a pedition to Palestine . But the whole style was Latin poem entitled Antiocheïs , on Richard's ex- doomed to extinction before a more vigorous rival sprang up in imitation of the French minstrelsy - and it had ...
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... poems is the Owl and Nightingale , a dispute between the two birds about their powers of song , consisting of about 1800 verses in rhymed octosyllabic metre . The satirical poem , called the Land of Cockayne , which Warton placed before ...
... poems is the Owl and Nightingale , a dispute between the two birds about their powers of song , consisting of about 1800 verses in rhymed octosyllabic metre . The satirical poem , called the Land of Cockayne , which Warton placed before ...
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Page 454 - ... by night in places of interment. Some stalked slowly on, absorbed in profound reverie ; some, shrieking with agony, ran furiously about like tigers wounded with poisoned arrows ; whilst others, grinding their teeth in rage, foamed along more frantic than the wildest maniac. They all avoided each other ; and, though surrounded by a multitude that no one could number, each wandered at random unheedful of the rest, as if alone on a desert where no foot had trodden.
Page 529 - Father, Thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns. Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these fair ranks of trees. They in Thy sun Budded, and shook their green leaves in Thy breeze, And shot towards heaven. The centuryliving crow, Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till at last they stood, As now they stand, massy and tall and dark, Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold Communion with his Maker.
Page 52 - Women," long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.
Page 463 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.
Page 24 - French derivatives. 4. By using less inversion and ellipsis, especially in poetry. Of these, the second alone, I think, can be considered as sufficient to describe a new form of language ; and this was brought about so gradually, that we are not relieved of much of our difficulty as to whether some compositions shall pass for the latest offspring of the mother, or the earlier fruits of the daughter's fertility.
Page 530 - ... the truth In her fair page; see, every season brings New change, to her, of everlasting youth; Still the green soil, with joyous living things, Swarms, the wide air is full of joyous wings, And myriads, still, are happy in the sleep Of ocean's azure gulfs, and where he flings The restless surge. Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms, the earth, the air, the deep.
Page 127 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
Page 372 - Dyer (here you will despise me highly) has more of poetry in his imagination than almost any of our number ; but rough and injudicious.
Page 50 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 46 - In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage To...