From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsFlood and Vincent, 1894 - 313 pages |
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... genius was at school , and followed awkwardly the copy set by its master . The Anglo - Saxon poetry , for example , had been rhyth- mical and alliterative . It was commonly written in lines containing four rhythmical accents and with ...
... genius was at school , and followed awkwardly the copy set by its master . The Anglo - Saxon poetry , for example , had been rhyth- mical and alliterative . It was commonly written in lines containing four rhythmical accents and with ...
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... genius was also beginning to assert itself , roused in part , perhaps , by the English victories in the wars of Edward III . against the French . It was the bows of the English yeomanry that won the fight at Crecy , fully as much as the ...
... genius was also beginning to assert itself , roused in part , perhaps , by the English victories in the wars of Edward III . against the French . It was the bows of the English yeomanry that won the fight at Crecy , fully as much as the ...
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... genius to make any fine use of them . The manner of a true poet may be learned , but his style , in the high sense of the word , remains his own secret . Some of the poems which have been attributed to Chaucer and printed in editions of ...
... genius to make any fine use of them . The manner of a true poet may be learned , but his style , in the high sense of the word , remains his own secret . Some of the poems which have been attributed to Chaucer and printed in editions of ...
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... genius , they had , at least , a definite model to follow . As in the 14th century , metrical romances continued to be trans- lated from the French , homilies and saints ' legends and rhyming chronicles were still manufactured . But the ...
... genius , they had , at least , a definite model to follow . As in the 14th century , metrical romances continued to be trans- lated from the French , homilies and saints ' legends and rhyming chronicles were still manufactured . But the ...
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... genius of Edmund Spenser ( 1552-1599 ) . While a student at Pembroke Hall , Cambridge , he had translated some of the Visions of Petrarch , and the Visions of Bellay , a French poet , but it was only in 1579 that the publication of his ...
... genius of Edmund Spenser ( 1552-1599 ) . While a student at Pembroke Hall , Cambridge , he had translated some of the Visions of Petrarch , and the Visions of Bellay , a French poet , but it was only in 1579 that the publication of his ...
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Page 272 - For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 270 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 253 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 259 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 247 - 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...
Page 259 - His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast...
Page 238 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 275 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 260 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 282 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...