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... POETS . PROSE WRITERS . The Writers of the Paston Letters . Of the first half ( John Skelton , of the 16th Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey . Century . Sir Thomas Wyatt , The non - dramatic Elizabethan Poets . The Elizabethan Dramatists ...
... POETS . PROSE WRITERS . The Writers of the Paston Letters . Of the first half ( John Skelton , of the 16th Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey . Century . Sir Thomas Wyatt , The non - dramatic Elizabethan Poets . The Elizabethan Dramatists ...
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... poet of the Anglo - Saxons suggested to Milton the subject of his renowned epic . That Milton must have read Caedmon with great interest seems probable , in view of the fact that the MS . of Caedmon , dis- covered in 1654 , was first ...
... poet of the Anglo - Saxons suggested to Milton the subject of his renowned epic . That Milton must have read Caedmon with great interest seems probable , in view of the fact that the MS . of Caedmon , dis- covered in 1654 , was first ...
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... poet , " the Father of English Poetry , " furnish us with the most exact type and expression ; for , like all men of the highest order of genius , he at once followed and directed the intellectual tendencies of his age , and was him ...
... poet , " the Father of English Poetry , " furnish us with the most exact type and expression ; for , like all men of the highest order of genius , he at once followed and directed the intellectual tendencies of his age , and was him ...
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... poet's own life , he was obliged to submit to the bitter humiliation of imprison- ment . In 1389 , however , he was appointed to the office of clerk of the king's works , which he held for about two years . There is reason to believe ...
... poet's own life , he was obliged to submit to the bitter humiliation of imprison- ment . In 1389 , however , he was appointed to the office of clerk of the king's works , which he held for about two years . There is reason to believe ...
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... poet a pleasing and meditative countenance , and indi- cate that he was somewhat corpulent . In the prologue to The Rime of Sir Thopas , the host of the Tabard , himself represented as a " large man , " and a " faire burgess , " calls ...
... poet a pleasing and meditative countenance , and indi- cate that he was somewhat corpulent . In the prologue to The Rime of Sir Thopas , the host of the Tabard , himself represented as a " large man , " and a " faire burgess , " calls ...
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الصفحة 151 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the
الصفحة 142 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
الصفحة 142 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
الصفحة 282 - This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of A hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest.
الصفحة 215 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
الصفحة 252 - 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 berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
الصفحة 165 - Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile, Witty, and well employed, and like thy Lord Speaking in parables his slighted word...
الصفحة 202 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
الصفحة 202 - In search of wit, these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defence: Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, 30 Or with a rival's, or an eunuch's spite.
الصفحة 283 - It needs no effort of imagination,' says he, 'to conceive what the sensations of an isolated set of scholars (almost all either clergymen or professors) must have been in the presence of this big-boned, blackbrowed, brawny stranger, with his great flashing eyes, who, having forced his way among them from the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation a most thorough conviction, that in the society of the most eminent men of his nation he was exactly...