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... Bartas " could shake this acknow- ledged supremacy . Sovereigns like François II , Charles IX , Elizabeth of England , and Mary of Scotland flattered Ronsard with praise and rewards . His reputation 11 PIERRE DE RONSARD.
... Bartas " could shake this acknow- ledged supremacy . Sovereigns like François II , Charles IX , Elizabeth of England , and Mary of Scotland flattered Ronsard with praise and rewards . His reputation 11 PIERRE DE RONSARD.
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... praise ( which Bayle later snubbed as chimères ) , we find this- Quant à ses œuvres , elles sont tant pleines d'excellence et de beautez , que nous les pouvons mieux entendre et admirer que les expliquer et imiter : et nostre Ronsard a ...
... praise ( which Bayle later snubbed as chimères ) , we find this- Quant à ses œuvres , elles sont tant pleines d'excellence et de beautez , que nous les pouvons mieux entendre et admirer que les expliquer et imiter : et nostre Ronsard a ...
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... praise poets for being learned . But in the sixteenth century the reverse was true . Within limits the more learned a poet , the more sedulous his imitation of the ancients , the greater his renown . Ronsard delighted his contemporaries ...
... praise poets for being learned . But in the sixteenth century the reverse was true . Within limits the more learned a poet , the more sedulous his imitation of the ancients , the greater his renown . Ronsard delighted his contemporaries ...
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... praise an author for writing as if he had never read a book " ; but in the six- teenth century such a person would have been censured as grievously impertinent . To know , to increase knowledge , to make his culture as wide and as ...
... praise an author for writing as if he had never read a book " ; but in the six- teenth century such a person would have been censured as grievously impertinent . To know , to increase knowledge , to make his culture as wide and as ...
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... praise , he has seized upon and ex- pressed better than anyone the essential charm of this poetry . He has analysed better even than Sainte - Beuve the wistful home - sickness of the ' Regrets , " the modern feeling for " out - of ...
... praise , he has seized upon and ex- pressed better than anyone the essential charm of this poetry . He has analysed better even than Sainte - Beuve the wistful home - sickness of the ' Regrets , " the modern feeling for " out - of ...
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Page 217 - No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Page 111 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...
Page 216 - They reply that with all this they can do nothing ; that the elements they need for the exercise of their art are great actions, calculated powerfully and delightfully to affect what is permanent in the human soul ; that so far as the present age can supply such actions, they will gladly make use of them ; but that an age wanting in moral grandeur can with difficulty supply such, and an age of spiritual discomfort with difficulty be powerfully and delightfully affected by them.
Page 189 - D'ESCURES. Ep. Oh of what contraries consists a man ! Of what impossible mixtures ! vice and virtue, . , Corruption, and eternnesse, at one time, And in one subject, let together, loose ! We have not any strength but weakens us, No greatness but doth crush us into air. Our knowledges do light us but to err, Our ornaments are burthens : our delights Are our tormentors ; fiends that, raised in fears, At parting shake our roofs about our ears.
Page 144 - Far, far from here, The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay Among the green Illyrian hills ; and there The sunshine in the happy glens is fair, And by the sea, and in the brakes. The grass is cool, the sea-side air Buoyant and fresh, the mountain flowers More virginal and sweet than ours.
Page 189 - Gives too soon Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with Till the refusal propagates a fear.
Page 216 - They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting their age, nor of the coming Poet ; all this, they know, is the mere delirium of vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling.
Page 153 - I have no flock : I kill Nothing that breathes, that stirs, that feels the air, The sun, the dew. Why should the beautiful (And thou art beautiful) disturb the source Whence springs all beauty? Hast thou never heard Of Hamadryads ? Rhaicos, Heard of them I have : Tell me some tale about them.
Page 43 - Par le monde volez, Et d'un sifflant murmure L'ombrageuse verdure Doulcement esbranlez, J'offre ces violettes, Ces lis, et ces fleurettes, Et ces roses icy, Ces vermeillettes roses, Tout freschement écloses, Et ces œilletz aussi.