Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 - English language |
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... Spenser -Nash - Harvey English Hexameter Verse Edmund Spenser Minor Elizabethan Poetry Warner Daniel Drayton Sylvester Chapman • · 55 64 • 70 127 128 · 142 149 · 156 · 160 383859 Harington . - Fairfax . - Fanshawe Drummond Davies • ( vii )
... Spenser -Nash - Harvey English Hexameter Verse Edmund Spenser Minor Elizabethan Poetry Warner Daniel Drayton Sylvester Chapman • · 55 64 • 70 127 128 · 142 149 · 156 · 160 383859 Harington . - Fairfax . - Fanshawe Drummond Davies • ( vii )
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... Spenser , between the Canterbury Tales and the Fairy Queen . For the sake of affording a means of comparison with the style and manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of ...
... Spenser , between the Canterbury Tales and the Fairy Queen . For the sake of affording a means of comparison with the style and manner of the extracts we shall presently have to give from the latter work , we will add here another of ...
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... Spenser has been indebted to him for many hints , as well as for example and inspira- tion in a general sense : what most marks the imma- turity of his style is a certain operose and constrained air , a stiffness and hardness of manner ...
... Spenser has been indebted to him for many hints , as well as for example and inspira- tion in a general sense : what most marks the imma- turity of his style is a certain operose and constrained air , a stiffness and hardness of manner ...
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... Spenser and Shakspeare , there is little in Sackville ; his poetry - pon- derous , gloomy , and monotonous - is still oppressed by the shadows of night ; and we see that , although the darkness is retiring , the sun has not yet risen ...
... Spenser and Shakspeare , there is little in Sackville ; his poetry - pon- derous , gloomy , and monotonous - is still oppressed by the shadows of night ; and we see that , although the darkness is retiring , the sun has not yet risen ...
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... Spenser , illustrious as the latter stands in the front line of the poets of his country and of the world . Gorboduc , accordingly , is a most unaffecting and un- interesting tragedy ; as would also be the noblest book of the Fairy ...
... Spenser , illustrious as the latter stands in the front line of the poets of his country and of the world . Gorboduc , accordingly , is a most unaffecting and un- interesting tragedy ; as would also be the noblest book of the Fairy ...
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Page 118 - Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 28 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Page 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Page 105 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 56 - With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Page 114 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 77 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Page 49 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 120 - Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.