Quomodo Edmundus Spenserus ad Chaucerum se fingens in eclogis "The Shepheardes calender" versum heroicum renovarit ac refecerit ...

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G. Masson, 1896 - 84 strani
 

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Stran 62 - My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer, A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe — My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go!
Stran 69 - ... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.
Stran 69 - They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical ; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of...
Stran 69 - I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him;2 for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine, but this opinion is not worth confuting, it is so gross and obvious an error that 1 Cowley.
Stran 6 - I like your late Englishe hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometime in that kinde...
Stran 4 - And firste of the wordes to speake, I graunt they be something hard, and of most men unused, yet both English, and also used of most excellent Authors and most famous Poetes.
Stran 9 - A Hand, that taught what might be said in rhyme, That reft CHAUCER the glory of his wit. A mark, the which, (unparfited, for time) Some may approach; but never none shall hit!
Stran 10 - The God of shepheards, Tityrus, is dead, Who taught me homely, as I can, to make...
Stran 71 - And their flockes fleeces them to araye : But tract of time, and long prosperitie, That nource of vice, this of insolencie, Lulled the shepheards in such securitie, That, not content with loyall obeysaunce, Some gan to gape for greedie governaunce, And match them selfe with mighty potentates, Lovers of Lordship, and troublers of states.
Stran 69 - Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries : there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.

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