Sonnets, Selected from English and American AuthorsHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 113 páginas |
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Página iii
... thing to say ; and as far as possible to choose only those that develop this thought , according to a clearly conceived plan ... things in literature ; real greatness has been iii C 5688 PREFACE achieved in few cases . Some of the sonnets.
... thing to say ; and as far as possible to choose only those that develop this thought , according to a clearly conceived plan ... things in literature ; real greatness has been iii C 5688 PREFACE achieved in few cases . Some of the sonnets.
Página ix
... thing approximate to it , from the Provençal troubadours , " and this thesis has been warmly supported , especially by the French critics ; secondly , that the sonnet came to birth in Italy itself or at least in Sicily . Those who ...
... thing approximate to it , from the Provençal troubadours , " and this thesis has been warmly supported , especially by the French critics ; secondly , that the sonnet came to birth in Italy itself or at least in Sicily . Those who ...
Página x
... thing and name comes to us from the Italian . " 2 And it came not by accident or unconscious imitation , but brought by the poets Thomas Wyatt ( 1503-1642 ) and the Earl of Surrey ( 1515-47 ) , with the definite purpose of introducing ...
... thing and name comes to us from the Italian . " 2 And it came not by accident or unconscious imitation , but brought by the poets Thomas Wyatt ( 1503-1642 ) and the Earl of Surrey ( 1515-47 ) , with the definite purpose of introducing ...
Página xii
... thing his contemporaries are doing , only he does it superlatively well , with far greater power of thought , delicacy of sentiment , and sweetness of music . But the number of really great sonnets from his pen is small ; the faults of ...
... thing his contemporaries are doing , only he does it superlatively well , with far greater power of thought , delicacy of sentiment , and sweetness of music . But the number of really great sonnets from his pen is small ; the faults of ...
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... busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers ' bale . And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays , and yet my sorrow springs ! Earl of Surrey . AMORETTI THIS holy season , fit to fast and pray 2.
... busy bee her honey now she mings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers ' bale . And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays , and yet my sorrow springs ! Earl of Surrey . AMORETTI THIS holy season , fit to fast and pray 2.
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Términos y frases comunes
beauty behold beneath birds blood breath bright Christina G cloud Company Dante Gabriel Rossetti dark dead dear death deep door dost doth dream earth Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Barrett Browning English eternal eyes face fair feet flowers gaze glorious grace hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow hour immortal Italian John Keats John Milton land leaves life's lines lips lone look Lord love thee love's mighty moon murmur never night o'er pale passion pause permission Petrarch Philip Bourke Marston poets praise publishers Reprinted from Poems rhyme scheme round sestet shadows shine sight silence sing sleep smile song sonnet sorrow soul sound Spenser Spring stars summer Surrey sweet tears Theodore Watts-Dunton thine things thou art thought trembling verse voice weary weep wild William Lisle Bowles William Shakespeare William Wordsworth wind wings Wyatt
Pasajes populares
Página 38 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Página 23 - Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Página 16 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 13 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 19 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Página 24 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página 11 - 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.
Página 35 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
Página 16 - In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Página 29 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.