Sonnets of this CenturyWilliam Sharp W. Scott, 1886 - 333 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 38
Pagina xxii
... English Sonnets ' served as an unmistakable in- dex to the awakening of general interest in this poetic form ; Mr. D. M. Main , an accomplished student of literature and a critic possessing the true instinct , whose honour it is to have ...
... English Sonnets ' served as an unmistakable in- dex to the awakening of general interest in this poetic form ; Mr. D. M. Main , an accomplished student of literature and a critic possessing the true instinct , whose honour it is to have ...
Pagina xxvi
... English genius has been in its most poetical condition ; this has , as I think most will agree , been true in the past , even up to so late a date as the middle of this century , and if a renascence of this interest have a prophetic ...
... English genius has been in its most poetical condition ; this has , as I think most will agree , been true in the past , even up to so late a date as the middle of this century , and if a renascence of this interest have a prophetic ...
Pagina xxxi
... English sonnet is an indigenous growth , I shall have something to say later on . It will be well to consider the Sonnet in a three- fold aspect : the aspect of Formal Excellence , that of Characteristic Excellence , and that of Ideal ...
... English sonnet is an indigenous growth , I shall have something to say later on . It will be well to consider the Sonnet in a three- fold aspect : the aspect of Formal Excellence , that of Characteristic Excellence , and that of Ideal ...
Pagina xxxvii
... English sonnet : but to the sensitive ear , especially sensitive among Italians , it is as out of place as some strain , sweet in itself , is in a melody that is already in itself amply sufficient and that loses in effect by the alien ...
... English sonnet : but to the sensitive ear , especially sensitive among Italians , it is as out of place as some strain , sweet in itself , is in a melody that is already in itself amply sufficient and that loses in effect by the alien ...
Pagina xl
... English , for in the latter practically all sonnets are what the Italians call mute , that is , the rhyming terminals are in one syllable , while in the language of Petrarca and Dante they are trisyllabic and dissyllabic — a ...
... English , for in the latter practically all sonnets are what the Italians call mute , that is , the rhyming terminals are in one syllable , while in the language of Petrarca and Dante they are trisyllabic and dissyllabic — a ...
Inhoudsopgave
xv | |
lviii | |
lxiv | |
lxxii | |
lxxv | |
lxxxi | |
66 | |
67 | |
170 | |
171 | |
172 | |
173 | |
182 | |
197 | |
202 | |
203 | |
75 | |
83 | |
91 | |
99 | |
120 | |
135 | |
143 | |
150 | |
153 | |
154 | |
155 | |
156 | |
157 | |
158 | |
159 | |
160 | |
161 | |
162 | |
163 | |
164 | |
165 | |
166 | |
167 | |
168 | |
169 | |
204 | |
205 | |
206 | |
207 | |
208 | |
209 | |
210 | |
211 | |
212 | |
213 | |
214 | |
215 | |
216 | |
217 | |
218 | |
219 | |
220 | |
221 | |
222 | |
223 | |
230 | |
236 | |
295 | |
306 | |
320 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Sonnets of this Century: Ed. and Arranged, with a Critical Introduction on ... William Sharp Volledige weergave - 1887 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alcyone Art thou Aubrey De Vere beauty beneath bird blind breast breath bright brow calm cloud cold couplet Dante Gabriel Rossetti dark dead death deep delight dost doth dream earth English sonnet eternal eyes fair fate fatiguing physical fear flowers gaze gleam gloom glory golden grave Hall Caine hand Hartley Coleridge hath hear heart heaven Helen's Tower hill hope immortal Italian Leigh Hunt life's light lines lips living lone love thee love's melody mighty Milton moon mould murmur nature night o'er octave Ozymandias Petrarcan Poems poet poetic poetry pure quatrains rhyme-sounds rhymes Rossetti round seems sestet shadow Shakespeare Shakespearian shore sigh silence sing sleep smile soft song soul sound stars stream strive sweet tercets Theodore Watts thine things thou art thought verse voice volume wave weary wild wind wings Wordsworth writers
Populaire passages
Pagina lvi - 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 114 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Pagina 119 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Pagina 202 - I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : 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 name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Pagina 264 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven...
Pagina 292 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Pagina 256 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Pagina lviii - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream.
Pagina 34 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Pagina 260 - Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees ; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth : So do not let me wear...