English Satire and SatiristsJ.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1925 - 325 strán (strany) |
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... Piers Plowman , who at once raised satire to a height it had never before reached in England . It is true that Piers Plow- man is a good deal more than a satire . There is pure poetic beauty 9 in the passage in which the author tells how ...
... Piers Plowman , who at once raised satire to a height it had never before reached in England . It is true that Piers Plow- man is a good deal more than a satire . There is pure poetic beauty 9 in the passage in which the author tells how ...
Strana 27
... beauty of one woman is praised , the plainness of another is ridiculed ; one is virtuous , another goes like a snail to church , but runs to the temple of Bacchus ; one is a miracle of patience , another inconstant as the moon ; one ...
... beauty of one woman is praised , the plainness of another is ridiculed ; one is virtuous , another goes like a snail to church , but runs to the temple of Bacchus ; one is a miracle of patience , another inconstant as the moon ; one ...
Strana 36
... beauty nor in plainness : - " The fairer of face , the prouder of hart , The lother to wo , the sooner wun , The lesse of speech , the more ouerthwart , Not one so daungerous as is dame dun , The fowler she is , the sooner it is doon ...
... beauty nor in plainness : - " The fairer of face , the prouder of hart , The lother to wo , the sooner wun , The lesse of speech , the more ouerthwart , Not one so daungerous as is dame dun , The fowler she is , the sooner it is doon ...
Strana 82
... exposes the devices by which women seek to heighten their beauty - a crude anticipation of a passage in Pope's Rape of the Lock : - 46 They know your spirits and your distillations Which make 82 ENGLISH SATIRE AND SATIRISTS.
... exposes the devices by which women seek to heighten their beauty - a crude anticipation of a passage in Pope's Rape of the Lock : - 46 They know your spirits and your distillations Which make 82 ENGLISH SATIRE AND SATIRISTS.
Strana 88
... beauty in the satire on Vanity read as if they might have been spoken from the pulpit : - " But why in beauty should men glory so ; As well we may perceive there's many do ; Sith ' tis no better than a fading flower , That flourishes ...
... beauty in the satire on Vanity read as if they might have been spoken from the pulpit : - " But why in beauty should men glory so ; As well we may perceive there's many do ; Sith ' tis no better than a fading flower , That flourishes ...
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Strana 169 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Strana 65 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Strana 188 - Way of using Books at present, is twofold: Either first, to serve them as some Men do Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail.
Strana 269 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep...
Strana 172 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Strana 220 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the Principle of Evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Strana 177 - Vellom, and the rest as good For all his Lordship knows, but they are Wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look, These shelves admit not any modern book.
Strana 116 - But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.
Strana 22 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Strana 71 - May all be bad ; doubt wisely ; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray ; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is.