The Modern Language Review, Volume 2Modern Humanities Research Association, 1907 - Languages, Modern |
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Page 336 - And all at once it seem'd at last The living soul was flash'd on mine, And mine in this was wound, and whirl'd About empyreal heights of thought, And came on that which is, and caught The deep pulsations of the world, ^Eonian music measuring out The steps of Time—the shocks of Chance— The blows of Death.
Page 336 - began to tremble o'er The large leaves of the sycamore, And fluctuate all the still perfume, And gathering freshlier overhead, Rock'd the fnll-foliaged elms, and swung" The heavy-folded rose, and flung The lilies to and fro, and said ' The dawn, the dawn
Page 109 - 3 vols.) professes to have been written in 1343, that is, thirty years before Boccaccio began his lectures in Florence. This date, which appears to have been added by a later hand, is obviously incorrect. The commentary is now usually assigned to the end of the fourteenth century or the beginning of the fifteenth. See Hegel,
Page 336 - from their golden day, They haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory like a cloudless air, The conscience as a sea at rest: and
Page 170 - Vit. Humbly thus. Thus low, to the most worthy and respected Leigier Embassadors, my modesty And womanhood I tender ; but withall So intangled in a cursed accusation That my defence of force like Perseus. Must personate masculine vertue to the point.
Page 63 - A HEADLESS BEAR.' . Puck. Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound, A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire; And neigh,
Page 64 - There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars ! A sacred receptacle of my joys, Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,
Page 312 - an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.
Page 261 - The Little Flowers of the Glorious Messer St Francis and of his Friars. Done into English by W. HEYWOOD, with an Introduction by AG FERRERS HOWELL.
Page 63 - Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends; my phantasie Presents a thousand ugly shapes, Headless bears, black men, and apes, Doleful outcries, and fearful sights, My sad and