A History of English Poetry, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1903 - English poetry |
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... DIVINE POEMS . " Metamorphosis of Donne's amorous into his religious manner . The characteristics of Donne's " Wit , " Abstraction and Metaphorical Imagery . The Primrose Hill . Effect on Donne's imagination of the new philosophy ...
... DIVINE POEMS . " Metamorphosis of Donne's amorous into his religious manner . The characteristics of Donne's " Wit , " Abstraction and Metaphorical Imagery . The Primrose Hill . Effect on Donne's imagination of the new philosophy ...
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... divine why it is that a poet who enjoyed so great a reputation in his own day , who undoubtedly possessed many rare qualities , and who wrote so much , and often so well , as Drayton , should have left so little behind him which ...
... divine why it is that a poet who enjoyed so great a reputation in his own day , who undoubtedly possessed many rare qualities , and who wrote so much , and often so well , as Drayton , should have left so little behind him which ...
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... divine region above the heavy and gross atmosphere of hack- writing . This was in the delightful fairy epic Nymphidia , in which he burlesques the action both of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Orlando Furioso . Many years before he ...
... divine region above the heavy and gross atmosphere of hack- writing . This was in the delightful fairy epic Nymphidia , in which he burlesques the action both of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Orlando Furioso . Many years before he ...
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... divine , too reasonable for the times in which he lived . When he wrote against what he himself calls " the damnable corruption of the Roman Church , " he found himself " suddenly exposed to the rash censures of many well - affected and ...
... divine , too reasonable for the times in which he lived . When he wrote against what he himself calls " the damnable corruption of the Roman Church , " he found himself " suddenly exposed to the rash censures of many well - affected and ...
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... divine grace . In the following lines , taken from a satire entitled Cras ( " To - morrow " ) , his philosophy reaches its high - water mark : If not to - day ( quoth that Nasonian ) , Much less to - morrow . " Yes , " saith Fabian ...
... divine grace . In the following lines , taken from a satire entitled Cras ( " To - morrow " ) , his philosophy reaches its high - water mark : If not to - day ( quoth that Nasonian ) , Much less to - morrow . " Yes , " saith Fabian ...
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Page 399 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters; but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge...
Page 399 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 215 - I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in nature, not the God of nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.
Page 424 - The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter...
Page 45 - 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.
Page 390 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 422 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 412 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 249 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 422 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...