Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 16
Page 18
... sustained and most * Stick . + Long and well proportioned . + In soothe . ? Dryden's Palemon and Arcite , the glorious paraphrase of this tale , is familiar to every one . Warton calls it " the most animated and harmonious piece of ...
... sustained and most * Stick . + Long and well proportioned . + In soothe . ? Dryden's Palemon and Arcite , the glorious paraphrase of this tale , is familiar to every one . Warton calls it " the most animated and harmonious piece of ...
Page 25
... sustained blank verse , and this , in a translation of the Æneid of Virgil , he has employed with a force and grandeur worthy of later times . His description and praise of his love Geraldine , although often quoted , is too full of ...
... sustained blank verse , and this , in a translation of the Æneid of Virgil , he has employed with a force and grandeur worthy of later times . His description and praise of his love Geraldine , although often quoted , is too full of ...
Page 27
... sustained , and the characters and action appropriate . It was acted before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall in 1561 , by the students of the Inner Temple . D They The English in remote times had their scenic representations 27.
... sustained , and the characters and action appropriate . It was acted before Queen Elizabeth at Whitehall in 1561 , by the students of the Inner Temple . D They The English in remote times had their scenic representations 27.
Page 28
... sustained by the priesthood . were , according to the wife of Bath's prologue in the Canterbury Tales , exhibited during the season of Lent , * and sometimes a sequel of scripture histories was carried on for several days . Beelzebub ...
... sustained by the priesthood . were , according to the wife of Bath's prologue in the Canterbury Tales , exhibited during the season of Lent , * and sometimes a sequel of scripture histories was carried on for several days . Beelzebub ...
Page 29
... sustained performance . It was in the reign of Elizabeth that the drama , in its first infancy , rose to its fullest might and glory ; it sprung into existence , like Venus from the waste of waters , in all its power and proportion . It ...
... sustained performance . It was in the reign of Elizabeth that the drama , in its first infancy , rose to its fullest might and glory ; it sprung into existence , like Venus from the waste of waters , in all its power and proportion . It ...
Other editions - View all
Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of Milton (Classic Reprint) Stanhope Busby No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
Æneid affections allusion amidst angels appear battle beautiful Ben Johnson bird bold breath bright Canterbury Tales celebrated characters Chaucer composed composition Comus conceit court dark deep delight dignity doth eloquence ENGLISH POETRY eternal expression fair fancy feelings flowers fugitive verses gallantry genius Geoffrey Chaucer GILES FLETCHER gloomy glowing gold happy heart heaven heroes hire human images imagination Inner Temple inspiration John of Gaunt King language learning legends light literature lived lofty looked Lord mankind mighty Milton mind minstrels moral muse narration nature night Paradise Lost passions Petrarch poem poet poetical popular proud quaint refined reign religious rendered rhymes rise romance rose rude Saint Brandon sang Satan Saxon sentiment Shakspeare shew songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stanza stream sublime sustained sweet Temple thee tree truth unto verse virtues wanting wife of Bath wild wings Wynkyn de Worde zeal
Popular passages
Page 38 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Page 71 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Page 99 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west; behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air and light the soil, Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 101 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 77 - 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.
Page 39 - They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you ; you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play : XCIX.
Page 103 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 77 - Nor then destroys it with too fond a stay, Like mothers which their infants overlay. Nor with a sudden and impetuous wave, Like profuse kings, resumes the wealth he gave. No unexpected inundations spoil The mower's hopes...
Page 101 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 103 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.