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... Italian poets . Dante died in 1321 , about twenty years after he had written his Divina Commedia . Petrarch lived till 1374 , Boccaccio till 1375. Chaucer's genius has made him solitary among the English writers of his own time , but it ...
... Italian poets . Dante died in 1321 , about twenty years after he had written his Divina Commedia . Petrarch lived till 1374 , Boccaccio till 1375. Chaucer's genius has made him solitary among the English writers of his own time , but it ...
Pagina 58
... Italian poets . If we examine a passage of Langland's verse , we shall find that what is called an alliterative line breaks up naturally into two parts or shorter lines . The break , suggesting a slight pause in the voice , is marked in ...
... Italian poets . If we examine a passage of Langland's verse , we shall find that what is called an alliterative line breaks up naturally into two parts or shorter lines . The break , suggesting a slight pause in the voice , is marked in ...
Pagina 76
... Italy , and were especially familiar with the writings of Boccaccio . Also , the poetry of Gower and Chaucer was wholly ideal and artistic , their aim being to delight the world rather than to inform or to correct it ; and they are , in ...
... Italy , and were especially familiar with the writings of Boccaccio . Also , the poetry of Gower and Chaucer was wholly ideal and artistic , their aim being to delight the world rather than to inform or to correct it ; and they are , in ...
Pagina 101
... Italy , Lydgate established himself as a Benedictine monk at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk . In his youth he was a friend and disciple of the aged Chaucer ; and he was about thirty years old when Chaucer died . The most important of his ...
... Italy , Lydgate established himself as a Benedictine monk at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk . In his youth he was a friend and disciple of the aged Chaucer ; and he was about thirty years old when Chaucer died . The most important of his ...
Pagina 125
... Italy , and in intercourse abroad and at home with foreigners and foreign books , Scottish students were brought into direct contact with the literature and culture of the continental cities . But it was chiefly from England that this ...
... Italy , and in intercourse abroad and at home with foreigners and foreign books , Scottish students were brought into direct contact with the literature and culture of the continental cities . But it was chiefly from England that this ...
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Pagina 207 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Pagina 253 - Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, Tomorrow will be dying.
Pagina 230 - Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Pagina 155 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
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Pagina 203 - Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune...
Pagina 158 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Pagina 209 - Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
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Pagina 200 - Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right ; To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, And smear with dust their glittering golden towers : 1 To fill with worm-holes stately monuments, To feed oblivion with decay of things, To blot old books, and alter their contents, To pluck the quills from ancient ravens...