A Book of Seventeenth Century LyricsFelix Emmanuel Schelling Ginn, 1899 - 314 pages |
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... Waller , whose contact with earlier poetry is generally forgotten in the fact that he is the historical link between the lyric of Jonson and that of the Restoration . Shirley , the last illustrious name of the old drama , does not ...
... Waller , whose contact with earlier poetry is generally forgotten in the fact that he is the historical link between the lyric of Jonson and that of the Restoration . Shirley , the last illustrious name of the old drama , does not ...
Page xxiii
... Waller were courtiers ; Cartwright , Herrick , and King clergymen ; Herbert was suc- cessively both . Most of those who survived to the civil wars sided with the king or fought for him ; not a few fell in his cause . But if these ...
... Waller were courtiers ; Cartwright , Herrick , and King clergymen ; Herbert was suc- cessively both . Most of those who survived to the civil wars sided with the king or fought for him ; not a few fell in his cause . But if these ...
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... Waller . From the same passage Pope and Parnell derived the idea of translating " into numbers and English " the satires of Donne ; and the only thing which the critics of the next age omitted was the " variety , multi- plicity , and ...
... Waller . From the same passage Pope and Parnell derived the idea of translating " into numbers and English " the satires of Donne ; and the only thing which the critics of the next age omitted was the " variety , multi- plicity , and ...
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... Waller , we shall often find its success to consist in an orderly and skilful presentation of material , in a minute attention to the weight and value of words and the proper placing of them , whilst controlling all is an ever - present ...
... Waller , we shall often find its success to consist in an orderly and skilful presentation of material , in a minute attention to the weight and value of words and the proper placing of them , whilst controlling all is an ever - present ...
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... Waller must be deferred to a later consideration . It is sufficient to notice here that while he owes most to Carew in the thought and manner of his lyrics , as Pope long since pointed out , ' Waller did not disdain to borrow an ...
... Waller must be deferred to a later consideration . It is sufficient to notice here that while he owes most to Carew in the thought and manner of his lyrics , as Pope long since pointed out , ' Waller did not disdain to borrow an ...
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Amoret appears beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew Castara century Charles Charles Cotton charming Clorinda conceit Cowley Crashaw crown Dean Prior death delight devotional Donne Donne's dost doth earth edition EDMUND WALLER Elizabethan Lyrics English eyes face fair fate flame flowers glory grace Grosart hast hath heart heaven Herbert Herrick Hesperides JAMES SHIRLEY Jasper Mayne JOHN DRYDEN JOHN MILTON Jonson King kiss Lady light literature live Lord Love's lover Milton mistress night passion Pattison Phyllis play poem poetical poetry poets praise prose Quarles Queen reads reign RICHARD CRASHAW ROBERT HERRICK rose Sandys shade Shakespeare sing smile SONG sonnet soul Spenser spring stanza stars stay sweet baby sleep tears thee thine things Thomas Thomas Carew THOMAS FLATMAN thou thought Thyrsis unto Vaughan verse Waller whilst WILLIAM HABINGTON wings Wit's Recreations Wither word written youth ΙΟ
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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 34 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye; Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
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 xii - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 270 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Page 168 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Page 158 - But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 89 - The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.