A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... songs in his Shepheard's Calendar . His natural richness and loftiness led him to make of the song a little ode , if ... songs scattered through his Arcadia . The most popular of his songs is The Dirge of Love , ' Ring out your bells ...
... songs in his Shepheard's Calendar . His natural richness and loftiness led him to make of the song a little ode , if ... songs scattered through his Arcadia . The most popular of his songs is The Dirge of Love , ' Ring out your bells ...
Page 303
... songs occur not in his collections , but in his masques . The most exquisite songs of all were to be heard on the stage , and in order to cull them nearly every comedy and romantic play of the age must be searched . Some on mythological ...
... songs occur not in his collections , but in his masques . The most exquisite songs of all were to be heard on the stage , and in order to cull them nearly every comedy and romantic play of the age must be searched . Some on mythological ...
Page 304
... songs which still borrow much from nature : the cradle - song in Midsummer Night's Dream , banishing the ' spotted snakes , with double tongue , ' the ' thorny hedgehogs , ' and the ' newts and blind - worms ' from the bank where ...
... songs which still borrow much from nature : the cradle - song in Midsummer Night's Dream , banishing the ' spotted snakes , with double tongue , ' the ' thorny hedgehogs , ' and the ' newts and blind - worms ' from the bank where ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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