The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 4English Association, 1924 |
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Page 248 - The play that is to give them a quite natural pleasure should tell them either of their own life, or of that life of poetry where every man can see his own image, because there alone does human nature escape i, from arbitrary conditions. Plays about drawing-rooms are written for the middle classes of great cities, for the classes who live in drawing-rooms...
Page 131 - The golden laws of nature are repeald, Which our first Fathers in such reverence held; Our liberty's revers'd, our Charter's gone...
Page 109 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 127 - For such whose poems, be they ne're so rare, In private chambers, that incloistered are, And by transcription daintyly must goe...
Page 138 - I deplored; and above them all preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never write but honour of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression.
Page 41 - The poet has raised him to the rank of a singularly spotless hero, a 'defending, protecting, redeeming being',1 a truly ideal character. In fact, we need not hesitate to recognize features of the Christian Savior in the destroyer of hellish fiends, the warrior brave and gentle, blameless in thought and deed, the king that dies for his people.
Page 248 - The poor Irish clerk or shop boy, who writes verses or articles in his brief leisure, writes for the glory of God and of his country, and because his motive is high, there is not one vulgar thought in the countless little ballad books that have been written from Callinan's day to this. They are often clumsily written for they are in English and if you have not read a great deal, it is difficult to write well in a language which has been long separated, from the - folk-speech' ; but they have not...
Page 72 - Incarnacion of our said lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and eyghte/And ended and fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the .xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen &c.
Page 132 - I confesse I read it a hundred times before I understand it once, or can conclude it to signifie that which the author should at that time meane.
Page 60 - Chaucer, in order to furnish such a motivating force for the final stages of the action, has skilfully gone about transferring the power of the ancient gods of his sources to the astrological planets of the same name; that the real conflict behind the surface action of the story is a conflict between the planets, Saturn and Mars...