Outlines of English LiteratureBlanchard and Lea, 1864 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 49
... satirical versifier , who was one of the ornaments of the brilliant court of Charles le Bel . Chaucer has translated the whole of the portion composed by the former , together with some of Meun's continuation ; making , as he goes on ...
... satirical versifier , who was one of the ornaments of the brilliant court of Charles le Bel . Chaucer has translated the whole of the portion composed by the former , together with some of Meun's continuation ; making , as he goes on ...
Σελίδα 60
... satirical jests made by others . These passages , in which the tales themselves are , as it were , incrusted , are called Prologues to the various narratives which they respectively precede , and they add inexpressibly to the vivacity ...
... satirical jests made by others . These passages , in which the tales themselves are , as it were , incrusted , are called Prologues to the various narratives which they respectively precede , and they add inexpressibly to the vivacity ...
Σελίδα 77
... satire by an infusion of the admirable expressions of Villon and Rabelais : and we hardly agree with those critics who have complained of our poet's freedom in this respect . If the rough but time - honoured stones taken from the ...
... satire by an infusion of the admirable expressions of Villon and Rabelais : and we hardly agree with those critics who have complained of our poet's freedom in this respect . If the rough but time - honoured stones taken from the ...
Σελίδα 101
... satire presented by human weaknesses , and which are found in the writings of all periods . The quarrels of matrimony , ( and the miseries undergone by henpecked husbands , as they CHAP . V. ] THE MEDIEVAL DRAMA : MYSTERIES . 101.
... satire presented by human weaknesses , and which are found in the writings of all periods . The quarrels of matrimony , ( and the miseries undergone by henpecked husbands , as they CHAP . V. ] THE MEDIEVAL DRAMA : MYSTERIES . 101.
Σελίδα 103
... satire - are supposed by the learned to trace their pedi- gree to the moralities of the Middle Ages : so few in number are the forms under which the human mind embodies its creations . The old Italian comedy , the ancient Spanish comedy ...
... satire - are supposed by the learned to trace their pedi- gree to the moralities of the Middle Ages : so few in number are the forms under which the human mind embodies its creations . The old Italian comedy , the ancient Spanish comedy ...
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admirable adventures afterwards ancient appeared Bacon beautiful Boccaccio burlesque Byron Canterbury Tales character Chaucer comedy comic composition criticism degree delineation drama dramatists Dryden Dunciad eloquence England English English language English literature exhibited existence expression exquisite Faery Queen feeling fiction French genius give glory grace Greek hero Hudibras human humour idea immortal inimitable intellect intense interest language Layamon learning less literary literature manners merit Middle Ages Milton mind mock-heroic modern moral narrative nature noble novels original Paradise Lost passages passion pathos peculiar perhaps period personages persons Petrarch philosophy picture picturesque poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Pope possessed principal productions prose racter reader religious remarkable rich romantic satire Saxon scenery scenes Scotland Scott sentiment Shakspeare singular society species Spenser spirit splendour style sublime sympathy tale taste tion tone Trouvères true verse versification vigorous wonderful words writings written
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Σελίδα 289 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Σελίδα 234 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Σελίδα 134 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Σελίδα 244 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Σελίδα 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Σελίδα 419 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand...
Σελίδα 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Σελίδα 114 - 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.
Σελίδα 138 - They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Σελίδα 241 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?