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... stanzas in which he laments his " master dear and father reverent , " Occleve is for a moment raised above himself . But , in spite of their discipleship , the difference between the master and the early fifteenth - century poets is ...
... stanzas in which he laments his " master dear and father reverent , " Occleve is for a moment raised above himself . But , in spite of their discipleship , the difference between the master and the early fifteenth - century poets is ...
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... stanzas of eight lines , and each character is set over against its opposite . The beauty of one woman is praised , the plainness of another is ridiculed ; one is virtuous , another goes like a snail to church , but runs to the temple ...
... stanzas of eight lines , and each character is set over against its opposite . The beauty of one woman is praised , the plainness of another is ridiculed ; one is virtuous , another goes like a snail to church , but runs to the temple ...
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... stanzas descriptive of Riot : — " Wyth that came Ryotte , russhynge all at ones , A rusty gallande , to - ragged and ... stanza , however , overstrains such metrical skill as Skelton possessed . His characteristic virtue is energy . He ...
... stanzas descriptive of Riot : — " Wyth that came Ryotte , russhynge all at ones , A rusty gallande , to - ragged and ... stanza , however , overstrains such metrical skill as Skelton possessed . His characteristic virtue is energy . He ...
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... stanzas of seven lines a lamentation on the death of the Mass.1 The chief upholder of our liberties , cries the priest , that whereby our concubines and harlots were maintained , is gone : - " Our gay velvet gownis furred with sables ...
... stanzas of seven lines a lamentation on the death of the Mass.1 The chief upholder of our liberties , cries the priest , that whereby our concubines and harlots were maintained , is gone : - " Our gay velvet gownis furred with sables ...
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... stanzas , like the authors of Rede Me and be nott Wrothe , or compose moralities , like Lyndsay and Heywood . Yet the movement had already begun which gave rise to the regular drama , and so had that which settled the five - beat iambic ...
... stanzas , like the authors of Rede Me and be nott Wrothe , or compose moralities , like Lyndsay and Heywood . Yet the movement had already begun which gave rise to the regular drama , and so had that which settled the five - beat iambic ...
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Page 270 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 169 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 65 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 269 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep...
Page 65 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Page 220 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Page 219 - ... other hands* Your friends have a privilege to play upon the easiness of your temper, or possibly they are better acquainted with your good qualities than I am. You have done good by stealth. The rest is upon record. You have still left ample room for speculation, when panegyric is exhausted. You are, indeed, a very considerable man. The highest rank ; a splendid fortune ; and a name, glorious till it was yours, were sufficient to have supported you with meaner abilities than I think you possess.
Page 162 - Even I, a dunce of more renown than they, Was sent before but to prepare thy way; And coarsely clad in Norwich drugget came To teach the nations in thy greater name.
Page 22 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 194 - My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country ; you have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.