Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and Others] ...Clarendon Press, 1941 - 503 pages Selections of the best work of the masters of English poetry from Chaucer to Arnold. Each group of selections is preceded by short essays of appreciation and summaries of the poets' lives. |
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Page 142
... pleasure , however , and his strength , lay in aural imagery : ' By the harmony of sounds we allure the soul ' , he declared ; and Purcell was right in declining to set to notes Alexander's Feast on the ground that it was already its ...
... pleasure , however , and his strength , lay in aural imagery : ' By the harmony of sounds we allure the soul ' , he declared ; and Purcell was right in declining to set to notes Alexander's Feast on the ground that it was already its ...
Page 161
... pleasure , Sweet is pleasure after pain . CHORUS Bacchus ' blessings are a treasure , Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure , Sweet the pleasure , Sweet is pleasure after pain . Soothed with the sound the king grew vain ...
... pleasure , Sweet is pleasure after pain . CHORUS Bacchus ' blessings are a treasure , Drinking is the soldier's pleasure : Rich the treasure , Sweet the pleasure , Sweet is pleasure after pain . Soothed with the sound the king grew vain ...
Page 236
... pleasure : such , perhaps , As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life , His little , nameless , unremembered acts Of kindness and of love . Nor less , I trust , To them I may have owed another gift ...
... pleasure : such , perhaps , As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life , His little , nameless , unremembered acts Of kindness and of love . Nor less , I trust , To them I may have owed another gift ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By H S BENNETT | 8 |
The Dream | 33 |
The Fight of the Red Cross Knight and the Heathen | 54 |
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