A Book of Seventeenth Century LyricsFelix Emmanuel Schelling Ginn, 1899 - 314 pages |
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... Crashaw , but in differing mode , displays , in his tenderness for natural objects , a spiritual contemplativeness which every now and then flashes a revealing light upon the relation of man to the universe . Herrick , in his humaneness ...
... Crashaw , but in differing mode , displays , in his tenderness for natural objects , a spiritual contemplativeness which every now and then flashes a revealing light upon the relation of man to the universe . Herrick , in his humaneness ...
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... Crashaw's confusion , and Cowley's irregularity of thought , and the all but universal search after ' conceit ' and far- fetched imagery . Thus it was that Donne's lordly contempt for mere form came to be made accountable for the ...
... Crashaw's confusion , and Cowley's irregularity of thought , and the all but universal search after ' conceit ' and far- fetched imagery . Thus it was that Donne's lordly contempt for mere form came to be made accountable for the ...
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... Crashaw's otherwise noble Hymn of the Nativity . The Vir- gin is spoken of , and represented with the Child , who is addressed by the poet : She sings thy tears asleep , and dips Her kisses in thy weeping eye ; She spreads the red ...
... Crashaw's otherwise noble Hymn of the Nativity . The Vir- gin is spoken of , and represented with the Child , who is addressed by the poet : She sings thy tears asleep , and dips Her kisses in thy weeping eye ; She spreads the red ...
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... Crashaw is inspired , not by the intellect , which clears and distinguishes objects , but by passion , which blends and confuses them . The language is one mass of involved and tangled figure , in which similarity suggests similarity in ...
... Crashaw is inspired , not by the intellect , which clears and distinguishes objects , but by passion , which blends and confuses them . The language is one mass of involved and tangled figure , in which similarity suggests similarity in ...
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Felix Emmanuel Schelling. find them in the verse of Quarles , Cartwright , Crashaw , Love- lace , and Davenant ; even in Carew , Herbert , and Vaughan . Cowley , who has been much abused on this score , but who is often a true poet ...
Felix Emmanuel Schelling. find them in the verse of Quarles , Cartwright , Crashaw , Love- lace , and Davenant ; even in Carew , Herbert , and Vaughan . Cowley , who has been much abused on this score , but who is often a true poet ...
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Page 256 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 275 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 254 - WHENAS in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes! Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, — O how that glittering taketh me ! Robert Herrick 121.
Page 217 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 134 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates — When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 216 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 159 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 21 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 22 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 144 - But ah, my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And, when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.