English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - 460 pages |
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... Chaucer , after whom , encouraged and delighted with their excellent fore - going , others have fol- lowed , to beautify our mother tongue , as well in the same kind as in other arts . This did so notably show itself , that the philo ...
... Chaucer , after whom , encouraged and delighted with their excellent fore - going , others have fol- lowed , to beautify our mother tongue , as well in the same kind as in other arts . This did so notably show itself , that the philo ...
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... Chaucer's Pandar so expressed that we now use their names to signify their trades ; and finally , all virtues , vices , and passions so in their own natural seats laid to the view , that we seem not to hear of them , but clearly to see ...
... Chaucer's Pandar so expressed that we now use their names to signify their trades ; and finally , all virtues , vices , and passions so in their own natural seats laid to the view , that we seem not to hear of them , but clearly to see ...
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... Chaucer saith ) , - how both in other nations and in ours , before poets did soften us , we were full of courage , given to martial exercises , the pillars of manlike liberty , and not lulled asleep in shady idleness 38 SIDNEY.
... Chaucer saith ) , - how both in other nations and in ours , before poets did soften us , we were full of courage , given to martial exercises , the pillars of manlike liberty , and not lulled asleep in shady idleness 38 SIDNEY.
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... Chaucer , undoubtedly , did excellently in his Troilus and Cressida ; of whom , truly , I know not whether to marvel more , either that he in that misty time could see so clearly , or that we in this clear age walk so stumblingly after ...
... Chaucer , undoubtedly , did excellently in his Troilus and Cressida ; of whom , truly , I know not whether to marvel more , either that he in that misty time could see so clearly , or that we in this clear age walk so stumblingly after ...
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... Chaucer at first , lest falling too much in love with antiquity , and not apprehending the weight , they grow rough and barren in language only . When their judgements are firm and out of danger , let them read both the old and the new ...
... Chaucer at first , lest falling too much in love with antiquity , and not apprehending the weight , they grow rough and barren in language only . When their judgements are firm and out of danger , let them read both the old and the new ...
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Page 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 103 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 240 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 92 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 432 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 241 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Page 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this 'side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, braye notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Page 40 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place: then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave: while in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page 235 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach.