English Satire and SatiristsJ.M. Dent & sons Limited, 1925 - 325 strani |
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... John of Salisbury and Alexander Neckham have both been spoken of as satirists , but they are rather serious- minded preachers and moralists , and their methods are too direct for true satire . It is otherwise with John de Hauteville and ...
... John of Salisbury and Alexander Neckham have both been spoken of as satirists , but they are rather serious- minded preachers and moralists , and their methods are too direct for true satire . It is otherwise with John de Hauteville and ...
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... John de Hauteville , they are far more effective . His superiority was appreciated , and the conception of the Order of the Ass became popular . Nigel's idea is borrowed and worked out at greater length in a keen and lively satire in ...
... John de Hauteville , they are far more effective . His superiority was appreciated , and the conception of the Order of the Ass became popular . Nigel's idea is borrowed and worked out at greater length in a keen and lively satire in ...
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... John de Hauteville and Nigel Wireker , has no relation to classical Latin satire . It is frankly medieval . The language is the language of men who have no desire to follow in the steps of Cicero or Horace or Ovid . The metres are far ...
... John de Hauteville and Nigel Wireker , has no relation to classical Latin satire . It is frankly medieval . The language is the language of men who have no desire to follow in the steps of Cicero or Horace or Ovid . The metres are far ...
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... John of Coupland a wight man in wede , Talked to Dauid and kend him his crede . pare was Sir Dauid so dughty in his dede , Pe faire toure of London haued he to mede . " · The glories of Edward were , however , superficial ; and though ...
... John of Coupland a wight man in wede , Talked to Dauid and kend him his crede . pare was Sir Dauid so dughty in his dede , Pe faire toure of London haued he to mede . " · The glories of Edward were , however , superficial ; and though ...
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... John Gower , who has all along rivalled Langland in fame , though he never rivalled him in real literary gift or in insight . Gower is a man who owes a great part of his fame to bulk rather than to merit : he wrote so much that he ...
... John Gower , who has all along rivalled Langland in fame , though he never rivalled him in real literary gift or in insight . Gower is a man who owes a great part of his fame to bulk rather than to merit : he wrote so much that he ...
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Stran 169 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Stran 65 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Stran 188 - Way of using Books at present, is twofold: Either first, to serve them as some Men do Lords, learn their Titles exactly, and then brag of their Acquaintance. Or Secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer Method, to get a thorough Insight into the Index, by which the whole Book is governed and turned, like Fishes by the Tail.
Stran 269 - And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep...
Stran 172 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Stran 220 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the Principle of Evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Stran 177 - Vellom, and the rest as good For all his Lordship knows, but they are Wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look, These shelves admit not any modern book.
Stran 116 - But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.
Stran 22 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Stran 71 - May all be bad ; doubt wisely ; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray ; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is.