Sonnets of this CenturyWilliam Sharp W. Scott, 1886 - 333 pagina's |
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Pagina xxiv
... mould of the sonnet , and how worthy that mould is of the honour and to meet , by the formation of an anthology of which the first and only absolute principle is the inclusion of no sonnet that does not possess - of course in varying ...
... mould of the sonnet , and how worthy that mould is of the honour and to meet , by the formation of an anthology of which the first and only absolute principle is the inclusion of no sonnet that does not possess - of course in varying ...
Pagina xxv
... mould into which to cast their most personal , their most vivid utterances : thus did Petrarch , and thus in less exclusive degree did Dante and Milton ; thus did Shake- speare , and Mrs. Browning , and Wordsworth , and Rossetti , and ...
... mould into which to cast their most personal , their most vivid utterances : thus did Petrarch , and thus in less exclusive degree did Dante and Milton ; thus did Shake- speare , and Mrs. Browning , and Wordsworth , and Rossetti , and ...
Pagina xxvi
... mould is a very secondary matter com- pared with the substance which renders it vital , and that a fine poem in not altogether the best form is infinitely better than a poor or feeble one in flawless structure . As a matter of fact ...
... mould is a very secondary matter com- pared with the substance which renders it vital , and that a fine poem in not altogether the best form is infinitely better than a poor or feeble one in flawless structure . As a matter of fact ...
Pagina xxix
... moulded into a certain recognised type , very probably not uninfluenced by the Greek epi- grams with which the more cultivated of the poet - musicians ( ' sonneteers ' ) were probably in some degree acquainted , and by the stornelli ...
... moulded into a certain recognised type , very probably not uninfluenced by the Greek epi- grams with which the more cultivated of the poet - musicians ( ' sonneteers ' ) were probably in some degree acquainted , and by the stornelli ...
Pagina xxxiii
... moulded by mental and musical influences : it is not a form to be held sacred simply because this or that great poet , or a dozen poets , pronounced it to be the best possible poetic vehicle for its purpose . It has withstood the ...
... moulded by mental and musical influences : it is not a form to be held sacred simply because this or that great poet , or a dozen poets , pronounced it to be the best possible poetic vehicle for its purpose . It has withstood the ...
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Sonnets of this Century: Ed. and Arranged, with a Critical Introduction on ... William Sharp Volledige weergave - 1887 |
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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...