Retrospective Review, Volume 9Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 - English literature |
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Page 175
... Chaucer are not less decisive than in phraseo- logy and structure : and we shall endeavour to shew hereafter , that in his versification are to be found , not only the less rigid models of our present septasyllabic and octosyllabic ...
... Chaucer are not less decisive than in phraseo- logy and structure : and we shall endeavour to shew hereafter , that in his versification are to be found , not only the less rigid models of our present septasyllabic and octosyllabic ...
Page 176
... Chaucer still continue to be the models of our serious and our familiar versification . But it is not merely in a literary point of view , as works of 1532. An observation which will be sufficiently illustrated in the fol- lowing ...
... Chaucer still continue to be the models of our serious and our familiar versification . But it is not merely in a literary point of view , as works of 1532. An observation which will be sufficiently illustrated in the fol- lowing ...
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... Chaucer are entitled to particular attention . They are pregnant with instruction of a higher order . They are an essential portion of the authentic history of his country ; not of its sieges , its battles , and its revolutions - like ...
... Chaucer are entitled to particular attention . They are pregnant with instruction of a higher order . They are an essential portion of the authentic history of his country ; not of its sieges , its battles , and its revolutions - like ...
Page 178
... Chaucer . In these respects we trust that we have said enough to justify the degree of importance we attach to this subject , and the space to which we may probably find it necessary to extend the present article : since every reader ...
... Chaucer . In these respects we trust that we have said enough to justify the degree of importance we attach to this subject , and the space to which we may probably find it necessary to extend the present article : since every reader ...
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... Chaucer as is still to be regarded among the desiderata of our restored literature . -an edition which would obviate ... Chaucer's days somewhat too freely admitted , without precisely substituting that fasti- dious phraseology with ...
... Chaucer as is still to be regarded among the desiderata of our restored literature . -an edition which would obviate ... Chaucer's days somewhat too freely admitted , without precisely substituting that fasti- dious phraseology with ...
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Page 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 31 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 19 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...