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... tion , and preciosity , had but hastened on the certain and necessary reaction . When the leaders of litera- ture began to write as Donne and Crashaw * did , it * One example will serve as well as a dozen , and the reader may amuse ...
... tion , and preciosity , had but hastened on the certain and necessary reaction . When the leaders of litera- ture began to write as Donne and Crashaw * did , it * One example will serve as well as a dozen , and the reader may amuse ...
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... tion of Waller . So much we may note in passing . Holland was the sole Teutonic country that al- ready possessed a modern literature , a literature . springing from the Renaissance . And here we seem nearer to England , for during the ...
... tion of Waller . So much we may note in passing . Holland was the sole Teutonic country that al- ready possessed a modern literature , a literature . springing from the Renaissance . And here we seem nearer to England , for during the ...
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... tion . It is , indeed , a strange thing that at the moment when England , under the cloud of her civil Jonson's Bartholomew Fair ; the humour of Brederô is the humour of Ostade , or of Plautus read through the eyes of Ostade . war ...
... tion . It is , indeed , a strange thing that at the moment when England , under the cloud of her civil Jonson's Bartholomew Fair ; the humour of Brederô is the humour of Ostade , or of Plautus read through the eyes of Ostade . war ...
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... tion had to some degree possessed it . Sir Aston Cockaine , that egotistical poetaster , mentions that he knew all the men of that time , and could have written their lives had it been worth his while . The exasperating creature wrote ...
... tion had to some degree possessed it . Sir Aston Cockaine , that egotistical poetaster , mentions that he knew all the men of that time , and could have written their lives had it been worth his while . The exasperating creature wrote ...
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... who took a great deal more inter- est in hearing about a handsome earl who died for love of a fair queen , than in the effect that earl's insurrection may have had in improving the condi- tion of 30 POETRY AT THE DEATH.
... who took a great deal more inter- est in hearing about a handsome earl who died for love of a fair queen , than in the effect that earl's insurrection may have had in improving the condi- tion of 30 POETRY AT THE DEATH.
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Strona 185 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th...
Strona 6 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire and had govern'd long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Strona 91 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Strona 136 - Thalaba and to the Curse of Kehama. As in the case of those shapeless Indian epics, so in that of Davenant's long-winded Lombardian heroic, there were not a few critics and lovers of poetry who refused to bow the knee to a poetical Baal so foreign to the imaginative tradition of the race. But to the public at large the one class of epic and the other were equally attractive for the moment. The strenuous didactic tone of morality, the emphatic wish to improve the condition and raise the dignity of...
Strona 149 - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
Strona 4 - Could all this be forgotten ? Yes, a schism Nurtured by foppery and barbarism Made great Apollo blush for this his land. Men were thought wise who could not understand His glories; with a puling infant's force They sway'd about upon a rocking-horse, And thought it Pegasus.
Strona 186 - But when the vigilant patrol Of stars walks round about the pole, Their leaves, that to the stalks are curled, Seem to their staves the ensigns furled.
Strona 60 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Strona 61 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer; My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair; Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Strona 4 - The morning precious: beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smoothe, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied.