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... literary perform- ance of the period from 1560 to 1660 , excluding or only lightly touching on those authors in its later part who may be said to have anticipated or prepared the post- Restoration changes , but including those who ...
... literary perform- ance of the period from 1560 to 1660 , excluding or only lightly touching on those authors in its later part who may be said to have anticipated or prepared the post- Restoration changes , but including those who ...
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... literary production -First Period , the minor poems - The special excellences of Comus- Lycidas - Second Period , the pamphlets -- Their merits and defects— Milton's prose style - Third Period , the larger poems - Milton's blank verse ...
... literary production -First Period , the minor poems - The special excellences of Comus- Lycidas - Second Period , the pamphlets -- Their merits and defects— Milton's prose style - Third Period , the larger poems - Milton's blank verse ...
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... literary hack , Whetstone , who wrote a poetical memoir of George Gascoigne after his death , entitles it a remembrance of " the well employed life and godly end " of his hero . It is not necessary to dispute that Gascoigne's end was ...
... literary hack , Whetstone , who wrote a poetical memoir of George Gascoigne after his death , entitles it a remembrance of " the well employed life and godly end " of his hero . It is not necessary to dispute that Gascoigne's end was ...
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... literary power , and chiefly note- worthy because of his long life after contributing to Tottel's Miscellany , which makes him a link between the old literature and the new . The literary interests and tentative character of the time ...
... literary power , and chiefly note- worthy because of his long life after contributing to Tottel's Miscellany , which makes him a link between the old literature and the new . The literary interests and tentative character of the time ...
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... production which had put English on a level with Greek and above Latin as a literary instrument . But for Harvey and Spenser , Sidney and Webbe , with those fifty years still to come 22 FROM TOTTEL'S " MISCELLANY " TO SPENSER CHAP .
... production which had put English on a level with Greek and above Latin as a literary instrument . But for Harvey and Spenser , Sidney and Webbe , with those fifty years still to come 22 FROM TOTTEL'S " MISCELLANY " TO SPENSER CHAP .
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Page 115 - 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. Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his...
Page 115 - 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 110 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
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Page 102 - I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain; Oft turning others...
Page 363 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from mortal eye In shady leaves of destiny...
Page 361 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day...
Page 332 - ... inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
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Page 275 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.