From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsGrosset & Dunlap, 1898 - 317 pages |
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Page 70
... thee . Sidney's " Defense of Poesy , " composed in 1581 , but not printed till 1595 , was written in manlier Eng- lish than the " ' Arcadia , " and is one of the very few books of criticism belonging to a creative and un- critical time ...
... thee . Sidney's " Defense of Poesy , " composed in 1581 , but not printed till 1595 , was written in manlier Eng- lish than the " ' Arcadia , " and is one of the very few books of criticism belonging to a creative and un- critical time ...
Page 120
... thee , And in this flea our two bloods mingled be . He says that the flea is their marriage - temple , and bids her forbear to kill it lest she thereby commit murder , suicide , and sacrilege all in one . Donne's figures are scholastic ...
... thee , And in this flea our two bloods mingled be . He says that the flea is their marriage - temple , and bids her forbear to kill it lest she thereby commit murder , suicide , and sacrilege all in one . Donne's figures are scholastic ...
Page 121
... long , Till it get wing and fly away with thee , which is almost as ludicrous as the epitaph written by George Herbert's " Temple . " Religious Vaughan . verse : Robert Herrick . his contemporary The Age of Milton . 121.
... long , Till it get wing and fly away with thee , which is almost as ludicrous as the epitaph written by George Herbert's " Temple . " Religious Vaughan . verse : Robert Herrick . his contemporary The Age of Milton . 121.
Page 124
... thee , dear , so much , Loved I not honor more- and " To Althea from Prison , " in which he sings " the sweetness , mercy , majesty , and glories " of his king , and declares that Stone walls do not a prison make , Nor iron bars a cage ...
... thee , dear , so much , Loved I not honor more- and " To Althea from Prison , " in which he sings " the sweetness , mercy , majesty , and glories " of his king , and declares that Stone walls do not a prison make , Nor iron bars a cage ...
Page 125
... in the interest of Charles II . , and was taken prisoner and put to death at Edin- burgh in 1650 . My dear and only love , I pray That little world of thee Montrose . John Milton . Be governed by no other sway Than The Age of Milton . 125.
... in the interest of Charles II . , and was taken prisoner and put to death at Edin- burgh in 1650 . My dear and only love , I pray That little world of thee Montrose . John Milton . Be governed by no other sway Than The Age of Milton . 125.
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