Afternoons with the PoetsHarper & brothers, 1879 - 320 pagini |
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Pagina 9
... genius transmutes the common clay and stubble of prose into the gold of poesy , and makes it current for all time . So likewise Ben Jonson , instead of indolently defining bell - ringing to be the act of causing a bell to give forth ...
... genius transmutes the common clay and stubble of prose into the gold of poesy , and makes it current for all time . So likewise Ben Jonson , instead of indolently defining bell - ringing to be the act of causing a bell to give forth ...
Pagina 14
... genius , together with the currency that such a sanction only could command , was the great Floren- tine , Dante . But it was Petrarch , pre - eminently , who secured for it , by the perfection to which he brought it , and by his large ...
... genius , together with the currency that such a sanction only could command , was the great Floren- tine , Dante . But it was Petrarch , pre - eminently , who secured for it , by the perfection to which he brought it , and by his large ...
Pagina 15
... genius , just as the diamond is only to be found by patient delving in the rich earth . And so it has happened that usually a few efforts at sonnet - mongering have satisfied pseudo or inferior poets ; and , repelled by the difficulty ...
... genius , just as the diamond is only to be found by patient delving in the rich earth . And so it has happened that usually a few efforts at sonnet - mongering have satisfied pseudo or inferior poets ; and , repelled by the difficulty ...
Pagina 21
... genius , ' did not hesitate to jot down in his copy of Petrarch some very severe criticisms , especially of his sonnets and can- zones ; some of which he pronounces ' ridiculous in the thoughts , ' others ' faulty , ' and others ...
... genius , ' did not hesitate to jot down in his copy of Petrarch some very severe criticisms , especially of his sonnets and can- zones ; some of which he pronounces ' ridiculous in the thoughts , ' others ' faulty , ' and others ...
Pagina 23
... genius , it is no dispraise to the Tuscan poet to say , ennobled whatever it touched . The selection is a portion of ' The Visions of Petrarch , ' seven in number , and treated in as many separate sonnets : the first be- ing a vision of ...
... genius , it is no dispraise to the Tuscan poet to say , ennobled whatever it touched . The selection is a portion of ' The Visions of Petrarch , ' seven in number , and treated in as many separate sonnets : the first be- ing a vision of ...
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amatory beauty Ben Jonson breath bright Castara Chapman charm Chaucer Coleridge criticism Daniel dark dear death delight doth earth Edmund Spenser English exquisite eyes Faerie Queene fair fancy feeling flowers genius gentle Giles Fletcher glory grace grief hast hath heart Heaven Henry Francis Cary Homer honor hope Jonson language Leigh Hunt less light lines literary live lofty lonely look Milton mind muse nature never noble o'er passages passion perfect Petrarch poems poet's poetical merit poetry poets praise Professor prose Provençal remarkable replied rhyme rich River Duddon sentiment Shakespeare Sidney Sidney's sight sing Sir John Davies sleep smile song sonnets soul Southey specimens Spenser spirit stanza strain style sweet taste tells tender thee thine things Thomas Warton thou thought tion translation true verse virtue Wordsworth writings written wrote Wyatt youth
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Pagina 162 - Hast reared God's trophies, and his work pursued ; While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath...
Pagina 72 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth "s unknown, although his height be taken.
Pagina 73 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom.
Pagina 172 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Pagina 106 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Pagina 163 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Pagina 70 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Pagina 164 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Pagina 227 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words appear: // "My...
Pagina 310 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.