History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century, Nide 4

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Reeves and Turner, 1871 - 479 sivua
 

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Sivu 43 - Pace non trovo , e non ho da far guerra ; E temo, e spero; ed ardo, e son un ghiaccio ; E volo sopra '1 cielo , e giaccio in terra ; . E nulla stringo, e tutto '1 mondo abbraccio. Tal m' ha in prigion, che non m'apre né serra ; Né per suo mi riten , né scioglie il laccio; E non m...
Sivu 367 - ... of the satirist is always the result of good sense. Nor are the thorns of severe invective unmixed with the flowers of pure poetry. The characters are delineated in strong and lively colouring, and their discriminations are touched with the masterly traces of genuine humour. The versification is equally energetic and elegant, and the fabric of the couplets approaches to the modern standard.
Sivu 160 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...
Sivu 314 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days.
Sivu 371 - I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing (and in my poor opinion) far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities.
Sivu 356 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Sivu 81 - His comedies, most of which appeared before the year 1 534, are destitute of plot, humour, or character, and give us no very high opinion of the festivity of this agreeable companion. They consist of low incident, and the language of ribaldry.
Sivu 30 - ... or elaborate conceits. If our author copies Petrarch, it is Petrarch's better manner : when he descends from his Platonic abstractions, his refinements of passion, his exaggerated compliments, and his play upon opposite sentiments, into a track of tenderness, simplicity, and nature. Petrarch would have been a better poet had he been a worse scholar. Our author's mind was not too much overlaid by learning.
Sivu 223 - Scrype,' had reviewed the royal pensioners in Greenwich Park, there came a tumbler, and played many pretty feats, the Queen and Cardinal Pole looking on ; whereat she was observed to laugh heartily.
Sivu 42 - In winter nights that are so cold, Plaining in vain unto the moon ; Thy wishes then dare not be told: Care then who list, for I have done. And then may chance thee to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon: Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done.

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