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... measured melody which is the essential form of poetry in the Arabic - or possibly Celtic - invention of rhyme , by ... measures ; among their authors were St. Anselm , St. Bernard , St. Thomas Aquinas , and Pope Innocent III . The ...
... measured melody which is the essential form of poetry in the Arabic - or possibly Celtic - invention of rhyme , by ... measures ; among their authors were St. Anselm , St. Bernard , St. Thomas Aquinas , and Pope Innocent III . The ...
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... measure ; the remaining portion , and all the Brut d'Angleterre are in the eight - syllable romance metre . Another chronicler , Benoit , also composed , at the desire of Henry II . , a history of the Dukes of Normandy , which appeared ...
... measure ; the remaining portion , and all the Brut d'Angleterre are in the eight - syllable romance metre . Another chronicler , Benoit , also composed , at the desire of Henry II . , a history of the Dukes of Normandy , which appeared ...
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... measure . Among the minor poets of this period , there is none so well deserving of notice as Lawrence Minot , whose poems were accidentally discovered by Mr. Tyrrhwitt among the Cottonian MSS . in the British Museum , near the close of ...
... measure . Among the minor poets of this period , there is none so well deserving of notice as Lawrence Minot , whose poems were accidentally discovered by Mr. Tyrrhwitt among the Cottonian MSS . in the British Museum , near the close of ...
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Thomas Arnold. It is in the eight - syllable rhyming measure , and consists of between twelve and thirteen thousand lines . James I. of Scotland , who received his education while retained as a captive in England between the years 1405 ...
Thomas Arnold. It is in the eight - syllable rhyming measure , and consists of between twelve and thirteen thousand lines . James I. of Scotland , who received his education while retained as a captive in England between the years 1405 ...
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... measures and style of the Italian poesie , as novises newly crept out of the school of Dante , Ariosto , and Petrarch , they greatly polished our rude and homely manner of vulgar poesie from that it had been before , and for that cause ...
... measures and style of the Italian poesie , as novises newly crept out of the school of Dante , Ariosto , and Petrarch , they greatly polished our rude and homely manner of vulgar poesie from that it had been before , and for that cause ...
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Page 338 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest. Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Page 320 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 304 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 255 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 331 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 164 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 338 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 308 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 282 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 315 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.