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... over the grave . They seldom turn to the gloomy side of things . Yet the more intimately we know him , the more we begin to form suspicions that , after all , his equanimity is only comparative , and that 18 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
... over the grave . They seldom turn to the gloomy side of things . Yet the more intimately we know him , the more we begin to form suspicions that , after all , his equanimity is only comparative , and that 18 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
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... side ; " and heroic , or five - accent couplets , in the " Legend of Good Women , " and most of the ' Canterbury Tales . ' The four - accent couplet is the original metre of the Roman de la Rose and nearly all the French fabliaux , and ...
... side ; " and heroic , or five - accent couplets , in the " Legend of Good Women , " and most of the ' Canterbury Tales . ' The four - accent couplet is the original metre of the Roman de la Rose and nearly all the French fabliaux , and ...
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... side of the Channel : but how they felt his power , which of its elements appealed to them most ir- resistibly , must ever remain matter for speculation . Archaisms of word and inflection cannot but be insepar- able elements in the sum ...
... side of the Channel : but how they felt his power , which of its elements appealed to them most ir- resistibly , must ever remain matter for speculation . Archaisms of word and inflection cannot but be insepar- able elements in the sum ...
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... through the city large , Hanging with cloth of gold and not with serge . Full like a lord this noble Duke can ride ; These two Thebanës upon either side : And after rode the Queen , and Emily , And THE CHIEF QUALITIES OF HIS POETRY . 39.
... through the city large , Hanging with cloth of gold and not with serge . Full like a lord this noble Duke can ride ; These two Thebanës upon either side : And after rode the Queen , and Emily , And THE CHIEF QUALITIES OF HIS POETRY . 39.
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... side of the wall stood he , And on that other sidë stood Thisbe , The sweetë sound of other to receive . And thus 42 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
... side of the wall stood he , And on that other sidë stood Thisbe , The sweetë sound of other to receive . And thus 42 GEOFFREY CHAUCER :
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admiration Æneid beauty blank verse Canterbury Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer colour comedy Court of Love death delight doth drama dramatist Elizabethan English expression eyes Faery Queen fair fancy favour feeling flowers French genius gentle Gorboduc Gower Greene Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry hero Hero and Leander honour humour imagination imitation Italian Jean de Meun Jonson King Knight's Tale knights lady language less lines lived look lovers ludicrous Lydgate Marlowe merry Mirror for Magistrates moral nature never Parliament of Birds passage passion Pembroke personages plays poem poet poet's poetical poetry praise probably revenge rhymes Richard Richard II romance rose satire seems sentiment Shakespeare shepherds sing song sonnets soul Spenser spirit stage stanza Stratford supposed Surrey Surrey's sweet tale Tamburlaine tears tender thee things thou tion tragedy translation Troilus Trouvères unto Venus verse wanton words write written wrote Wyatt youth
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Page 277 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound...
Page 365 - Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 279 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Page 283 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Page 390 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Page 356 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 366 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 380 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep; methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
Page 304 - Forsake thy king, and do but join with me, And we will triumph over all the world : I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about; And sooner shall the sun fall from his sphere Than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome.
Page 392 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.