The Masters of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1904 - 423 Seiten |
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... ye make me hevy chere , Me were as leef be leyd up - on my bere ; For whiche unto your mercy thus I crye : Beth hevy ageyn , or elles mot I dye ! Two more stanzas maintain the same rhymes and the Envoy 2 THE MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... ye make me hevy chere , Me were as leef be leyd up - on my bere ; For whiche unto your mercy thus I crye : Beth hevy ageyn , or elles mot I dye ! Two more stanzas maintain the same rhymes and the Envoy 2 THE MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... ye make me hevy chere , Me were as leef be leyd up - on my bere ; For whiche unto your mercy thus I crye : Beth hevy ageyn , or elles mot I dye ! Two more stanzas maintain the same rhymes and the Envoy 2 THE MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... ye make me hevy chere , Me were as leef be leyd up - on my bere ; For whiche unto your mercy thus I crye : Beth hevy ageyn , or elles mot I dye ! Two more stanzas maintain the same rhymes and the Envoy 2 THE MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Stephen Lucius Gwynn. Two more stanzas maintain the same rhymes and the Envoy concludes : O Conquerour of Brutės Albioun ! Which that by lyne and free eleccioun Ben verray king , this song to you I sende ; And ye that mowen al myn harm ...
Stephen Lucius Gwynn. Two more stanzas maintain the same rhymes and the Envoy concludes : O Conquerour of Brutės Albioun ! Which that by lyne and free eleccioun Ben verray king , this song to you I sende ; And ye that mowen al myn harm ...
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... stanzas of nine lines- we have only the half of his project . As there were twelve cantos in each book , so there were to be twelve books in the poem ; and by an odd arrangement , only in the twelfth were readers to receive an ex ...
... stanzas of nine lines- we have only the half of his project . As there were twelve cantos in each book , so there were to be twelve books in the poem ; and by an odd arrangement , only in the twelfth were readers to receive an ex ...
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... stanzas from his description of Mammon : At last he came unto a gloomy glade , Covered with boughes and shrubs from heavens light , Whereas he sitting found in secret shade An uncouth , salvage , and uncivile wight , Of griesly hew and ...
... stanzas from his description of Mammon : At last he came unto a gloomy glade , Covered with boughes and shrubs from heavens light , Whereas he sitting found in secret shade An uncouth , salvage , and uncivile wight , Of griesly hew and ...
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Seite 143 - Changed his hand, and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good! ~By too severe a fate, Fallen! fallen! fallen! fallen! Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood!
Seite 270 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Seite 330 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration...
Seite 112 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Seite 100 - Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, 80 Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 241 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 117 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best...
Seite 365 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Seite 243 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Seite 344 - Lyrical Ballads^; in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.