The Modern Language Review, Volumen4

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Modern Humanities Research Association, 1909
 

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Página 231 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 521 - Between his old feelings towards Harriet, from whom he was not then separated, and his new passion for Mary, he showed in his looks, in his gestures, in his speech, the state of a mind, suffering, 'like a little Kingdom, the nature of an insurrection.
Página 149 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed.
Página 14 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By cause that it was old and somdel streit This ilke Monk leet olde thynges pace, 175 And heeld after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters been nat hooly men...
Página 294 - For the onely or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and heaven, beeing used shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge...
Página 38 - Batallas, tempestades, amoríos Por mar y tierra, lances, descripciones De campos y ciudades, desafíos, Y el desastre y furor de las pasiones; Goces, dichas, aciertos, desvarios, Con algunas morales reflexiones Acerca de la vida y de la muerte, De mi propia cosecha, que es mi fuerte.
Página 38 - Vuelvan mi pecho a turbar. Pasad, pasad en óptica ilusoria, Y otras jóvenes almas engañad ; Nacaradas imágenes de gloria, Coronas de oro y de laurel, pasad. Pasad, pasad, mujeres voluptuosas, Con danza y algazara en confusión ; Pasad como visiones vaporosas Sin conmover ni herir mi corazón.
Página 41 - Verneuil. The former, having first accosted the latter with very hard words, gave her a box on the ear. At my suit three of them were arrested ; but the principal person, the author, escaped.
Página 332 - The earth, with what conceived is in her womb, What on her moves, were set unto thy sight, Till thou didst find their causes, essence, might. But unto nought thou so thy mind didst strain, As to be read in man, and learn to reign, To know the weight and Atlas of a crown, To spare the humble, proudlings pester down. When from those piercing cares which thrones invest, As thorns the rose, thou wearied wouldst thee rest, With lute in hand, full of celestial fire, To the Pierian groves thou didst retire....
Página 41 - I caused certain players to be forbid from acting ' The History of the Duke of Biron ; ' when, however, they saw that the whole court had left town, they persisted in acting it ; nay, they brought upon the stage the Queen of France and Mile, de Verneuil.

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