The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I.Archibald Constable, 1820 - 674 strán (strany) |
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Strana xlii
... Vertue , " might , perhaps , have afforded the party a useful hint or two in some of the dryer points of these conversa- tions : " To gape in such vnseemely sort with vgly gaping mouth Is like an image pictured , a blowing from the ...
... Vertue , " might , perhaps , have afforded the party a useful hint or two in some of the dryer points of these conversa- tions : " To gape in such vnseemely sort with vgly gaping mouth Is like an image pictured , a blowing from the ...
Strana 58
... vertue shapes : Whether to Europes boundes or Asian plaines To Africks shore or rich America ** Sayle on ; pursue your honours to your graues ! Heauen is a sacred couering for your heads , And euery Clymat vertues Tabernacle ! " ELLIOT ...
... vertue shapes : Whether to Europes boundes or Asian plaines To Africks shore or rich America ** Sayle on ; pursue your honours to your graues ! Heauen is a sacred couering for your heads , And euery Clymat vertues Tabernacle ! " ELLIOT ...
Strana 83
... vertue can neuer dye : Folowynge this noble fame there sawe I Manye of those whyche I tofore haue rehersed That by loue ( as sayd is ) were sore oppressed . On her ryght hand there fyrst in my syght Was Cesar and Scipion , that ...
... vertue can neuer dye : Folowynge this noble fame there sawe I Manye of those whyche I tofore haue rehersed That by loue ( as sayd is ) were sore oppressed . On her ryght hand there fyrst in my syght Was Cesar and Scipion , that ...
Strana 86
... vertue fayre and dread fast locked in a cage : Although he be a lorde yet serues he as a page . Two perlouse noughty vices , worse then a fend of hell , Where that these monsters rule right hard for to aswage . If that ye note this ...
... vertue fayre and dread fast locked in a cage : Although he be a lorde yet serues he as a page . Two perlouse noughty vices , worse then a fend of hell , Where that these monsters rule right hard for to aswage . If that ye note this ...
Strana 133
... vertue , voide of all disdaine , The Muses sung & wakde me with these wordes : " Seest thou that English Nimph in face and shape Resembling some great Goddesse , and whose beames Doe sprinkle Heauen with unacquainted light , While shee ...
... vertue , voide of all disdaine , The Muses sung & wakde me with these wordes : " Seest thou that English Nimph in face and shape Resembling some great Goddesse , and whose beames Doe sprinkle Heauen with unacquainted light , While shee ...
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Strana 270 - Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises ; and oft it hits, Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
Strana 22 - Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence ; yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.
Strana xix - ... genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns and the beauties of the ancients.
Strana 244 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Strana 68 - ENTITLED To the noble and vertuous Gentleman, most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie, MA1STER PHILIP SIDNEY.
Strana xliii - Of a Jew, who would for his Debt have a Pound of the Flesh of a Christian.
Strana xliv - Wonder not (for with thee will I first begin), thou famous gracer of tragedians, that Greene, who hath said with thee like the fool in his heart, "There is no God...
Strana 160 - twixt each drop, he nigardly, As loth to enrich mee, so tells many a lie. More than ten Hollensheads, or Halls, or Stowes, Of triviall houshold trash he knowes ; He knowes When the Queene frown'd, or smil'd, and he knowes what A subtle States-man may gather of that...
Strana 251 - I can willinglyer conceive then dare to prescribe; yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow. I cannot, nay, I will not delude your sight with mists; yet I dare defend my plainenesse against the verjuice-face of the crabbedst Satyrist that ever stuttered.
Strana 90 - tis true ; but now, if any Should for that cause despise it, we have many Reasons, both just and pregnant, to maintain Antiquity, and those, too, not all vain. We know (and not long since) there was a time, Strong lines were not look'd after ; but if rhyme, Oh ! then 'twas excellent...