The Works of George Chapman ...Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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Page x
... sweet airs and tender outlines and floating Elysian echoes of Spenser's vision , he has nothing to offer in exchange but the thick rank mist of a lowland inhabited by monstrous hybrids and haunted by jarring discords . Behind Spenser ...
... sweet airs and tender outlines and floating Elysian echoes of Spenser's vision , he has nothing to offer in exchange but the thick rank mist of a lowland inhabited by monstrous hybrids and haunted by jarring discords . Behind Spenser ...
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... sweet , no emotion so exalted and august is here discernible as that which uplifts the contemplation and upholds the confidence of the highest in spirit and the deepest in thought among those earlier speakers who served as mouthpieces ...
... sweet , no emotion so exalted and august is here discernible as that which uplifts the contemplation and upholds the confidence of the highest in spirit and the deepest in thought among those earlier speakers who served as mouthpieces ...
Page li
... sweet than banqueting . " In this poem , with much wearisome confusion and iteration of thought and imagery , reprobation and complaint , there are several noble interludes of gnomic and symbolic verse . The allegory is of course ...
... sweet than banqueting . " In this poem , with much wearisome confusion and iteration of thought and imagery , reprobation and complaint , there are several noble interludes of gnomic and symbolic verse . The allegory is of course ...
Page lviii
... sweet and equal exaltation of style which no English poet of his age , and Chapman less than any , could hope even faintly to reproduce or to recall . In his original poems the most turgid and barbarous writer of a time whose poets had ...
... sweet and equal exaltation of style which no English poet of his age , and Chapman less than any , could hope even faintly to reproduce or to recall . In his original poems the most turgid and barbarous writer of a time whose poets had ...
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... sweet tradition from oversea , of memories and notes which came mended from their tongues , ' — he alone was the true Apollo of our dawn , the bright and morning star of the full midsummer day of English poetry at its highest . Chaucer ...
... sweet tradition from oversea , of memories and notes which came mended from their tongues , ' — he alone was the true Apollo of our dawn , the bright and morning star of the full midsummer day of English poetry at its highest . Chaucer ...
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Page 57 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by Fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice. What we behold is censured by our eyes.