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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour iu» reproduit en un seul ctichA, il est filmA A partir de Tangle supirieur gauche, de gauche it droite. et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'imagea n^cassaira. Las diagrammes suivants illustrent la m4thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 MIOtOCOPY RISOIUTION TiST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 I.I 12.0 116 1.8 ^ /APPLIED IIVMGE Inc S^ '653 Eosl Main Street STA Rochester. Neo York U609 USA ^g (716) 482 - 0300 -Phone ^S (716) 288 - 5989 - rai Y9M87ii P((!lill ^nibemtj), Poatreal. ILLUSTRITIOIS OF ER6LISH LITERITURE (FIRST YEIR COURSE). Professor Chas. K. Motsb, B.A. SUBJBOTS. The churacteristics of Literature — the connection between Literature and History — the divisions of English Liter.iture — the peopling of Europe and Britain. * Celtism and Teutonism. Celtism — its relation to history and literature— the characteristics of the Celt — his artistic faculty— the qualities of his literature — i*s imagination — delicacy — colour — melanclioly — humour. Teutonism — Beowulf — its subject — its Homeric quality — charac- teristics of the Teuton — his sense of duty — comparisons between his other qualities and that of the Celt. ILI.U ST R A-T ION S. All, that is literature, seeks to communicate power ; all, that is not literature, to communicate knowledge. Now, if it be asked what is meant by communicating power, I in my turn would ask by what name a OMa would designate the case in which I should be made to feel vj^^ntfiil ^^^^ ^ ^'^ consciousness, emotions which ordinary life wBBI^M ^i^ lJl p plies occasions for exciting, and which had previously lain unawii^j^ed, and hardly within the dawn of consctous- iiess — as myriads of modes of feeling are at this momeui in every human mind for want of a poet to organize them.' I say, when these itiett and sleeping forms are organized — 'When these possibilities etre actualized, — ^is this conscious and living possession of mine power. — Thomas DeQuincey. Letters to a young man whone Edueatiou htu been t^eetaJ, '' "^ IL llat a book is written not to multiply the voice merely, not to cany 11 aer^, but to perpetuate it The'auUior "jos something to aay «bi4h ha parceives to be ferae and useful or helpfully beautiful . . &V^\\^ ,*■•*='>.■ ■j I £f ■I. H« would fain set it .lown fnr Bv,.r . -yinK "tl.i8 i. the 1« t o „7o ;. ; l.:''^"*?? '' •^» '•«^''. i' '«« could ove.1 „„d hatod Jike an«t .« mv Utl Z ^ "*u "'"' '^""''^ "«J »le^ •'"t thU I nn,v nnd know tl'.i, If ' " Z'** ')' '•"'^" "»'' >• "o*^ memory." That is his « wri L'-'' i ? T'- "' "',"""' '« ^'""•'h you w.th whatever decree „f Tr e L.i^V ' " '" f "'"" '"""'"' «"y.'". -■■P^"-- That i a .. HOOK "- ™ C^i' ;" ';"'• '"" '"-"i'^^^" "' HI. I>an,el Defoe. Th. Tme-liorn KnulUunan [1701]. IV. A tt ow:%t;xr:.irh' a '" r^'^ ' ' -" -* — . ' ture; but I will siv t L^lf ''""'''^ Teutonic Bnpe«truc ' ™te^«.„.eti™LT„^i t^^,rs^^^^ I»egm to cast ab^ut a.,,1 see whS V •/["'?""'"""' *»^ «^« Arnold. On ike Stu.,, IjZhcU::,!:. ^ "* "' '—Matthaw V. fe' i!'*i>. ■ '>e could ; and slept, »d is not : i^orth your ' way, ami :ri|)ti()n <>r literaturu VI. Both thoulden covered with hia pointed ahield, The hero ther<-, nwift rts the wtir-horne i ashed. Noise in the ntovnt of t'atiffhUr, iioiw and Are ; The darting Uncea were oem. Morley'e account of it requires modification. It seems that the banl Aneurin composed only the first half, consisting of forty- four stanzas. The remainder, added by a subsequent writer or writers, w, m some degree, borrowed from another famous Welsh bard Talieain. The first part of the poem refe.-s to the battle of Catnwth, A D 596 which was fought " in that part of Scotland where Lothian ine«t^ Stirlingshire, in the two districts of Gododin and Catraeth both washed by the sea of the Firth of Forth." The second part refers to a battle fought in the same locality about fifteen year* later. (8m William F. Skene, The Four Ancient Poenit of Walet.) The poet Thomas Gray, one of the best Classical, Norse, and Old lilnaliih scholars of hia time, who had a share in detecting the fonreriM of Ihomaa Chatterton, translated a portion of Y Gododin into Enalidi verse {Ode from the WeUk, part //.-The death of Hoel), but not from the original. VII. More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her haDd» and her fingers than the blossom of the wood anemone «nidst th. spray of the meadow fountains. And in the evening he (Peredur) entered a valley, and at the h«k} IS; ?„W* T* ^ * ^r^''' ««"' ""'J »»>« hemit welcomed £ ^tt?n^ ."S"' ?'*tv^''S r '^^^^^^ "' snowhad fallen^- ^t before, and a hawk had killed a wild fowl in front of the cell. Shaven iAH^^^f*^"/?"^ ""'^ '^'^^P*^ *»»« blackness of £ttS W^S^ Si *w .1'^" T""' ""** *^« '^»«'» «' th« Wood, Mind to d^il iv V* ^^ \*.*^^^ ^^'""^ ^^ backer than the 2i! » J^ ui v'*' f ^'*^ '■« ^'^>*«' '!»«» the snow, and to the two ES TL^ ?^^ r"**^ *•« «<*<*« tl^an the blood upon tte n^il^e^u^tJ^' ^^'^'^i''- ^^^ CharlotteTu.*; ^^t in t^^ ' T?^ fi?H«« "o »Mgely m Arthurian romance.] fit^^L l^A '^"^ *^*^ ¥^ '•'^ ^«^' *»d they came to an open SPS'.^ wiT^ri^l^Lr ^' •"'^r^'- moiingth«Tne«i" 'J«n 1.5 u. th.*c.n.™ orhi'h^^^jrHS;!^"'^ ^.°''i!' and his horse were fully eauiDiK^l wi t K 1^ ^ ? • ^^^*^ **'* '''»!«*»' A helmet of tm d wa« on the hen.! n* f».J^ l. • kl ^^^ '™ *''••?• -tone, of greaf virtue. rnV;t%hr.l;yi^"£t'':LTe 1^"!!: a flame^oloured leopani with two ruby-rS stonM in^h-V Tu°f t was aatounding for a warrior, hoievefato^t W "w"^','^^^ the face of the leopard, much more at the f ace o trknl H^ had in hiH hand a bluemhafted lance, but from the haft tJ?h!\wS It was steined crimson-red. with the blood oTle aTven^^ ?S*. plumage.-7%. Mabinogion (The D««m of Bhcmabw?^) ^ IX. LLYWARCH HEN'S ODE TO HIS CEUTCH. O my crutch ! it is not antumn. when the fern is nd. th* wator-flxr vlU. t H»ve I not hat«°?;,"°it«'l hy initial-rime, or, •• it is generally caUed, aJhtewtion. The essential feature of Anglo-Saxon ?oet^k th^each half, ne contains two rhythmically accented sylkblel i^ therefore, two mebsuiea or feet. Alliteration is the use of (aUiS cm^^ or (ft) mnriJa, or different vowels and diphthong- AIK? •i^ib confined to rhythmicaUy accented sylUbV butthe last jteftmioaUy accented sylU le of *he line must not, with one exeep- .?ri.*»ll?^ with any preceding rhythmically accented syUable,aiid ^e^SrtJfr M'"Jl;^"«'•'■®«^ poetry with the first rhythmfeX PeCMted sylkMe of the seooBd Wf of flie Kw, wliieh Is tt strt^ r-u.!., reK„,,.n|e with th»^Ve«. I I'Ugon tlift to l»„c« . hvr. 'i'^'Ie* weal, '-•''holt uf.„ gr-T ir^^" ""lu the wn, Mors, m,,,^ . ^j,^ « ," J?, ' ^^•' •-■""'«»«. the battle dre« nJ «rn.o.rc.d Un.i wa. docked ourwTrwea^V^^^ with iron/ A: XII. Heowulf, II. 864-871 Th« k viii.vv. 97-265. ''^ horse-racMng. (Compare Ody«ey bk their excellence ; now a JZ nf ^ T""'* '*'' <>' *«" f»mi ftj n new tale in verses true '*' '^'*" °' ""'^'^nt saga«. fooS XIII. -i'ld the cliffs nrowim-CrtS S!^°'^*~^'"»»«»«V»e»^ •iangerous; where the Lo^n tain t^ritnt Itit**'"' ?* T "* ^ meaaured by miloa thnf ♦».« ^ i i" ? *'"■ ^* " not far hinig with rimJZZtLtlff\'^^2.^^^ '* ^''^ g«v« colS There may a dire iwrtent T^ ^"f** ovenhadow. ib« wSr hart (heath^tepper „rC ^ 7" '^^J'^^^ ^^^^ *<«?fc ^ hounds, the hart rtrong of hoJntaJ^S '[ "?** ?° *^«*»^ «» yield hia life. hi. life 'n the bnVk :^h."^^^ '^H^^'^a ^'^ pool. It is a wild spot whanel tlJ^ 1 \'*^* »"* h«d in J white to the cloud., wMe^^.t^li' 1^* *!!T -'°»°*»" heaven gww. dark and the akill^W^ ^ *^P~*^ '"»***' XIV The Haiti ' ff Maldon — • fngiuMit The BstUe of Maldou is tm" of th(^ two fu.uodt b«Ule-pi«c«f in Anglo-Haxuii ptwtry. Th« rabjoct of the other in the battle of fruiunburh. The poem on Rriiiwnburb it fouiitl in the Angio-8*.\on Chn'iiclc, and haa been tuni'^d by Terin^on into motlern Lngliah \rv .• ^''"''' ™^ ^'^'^'der gave Wrought by the hand of the smth ^T Z T *««{ earth, I am called, who carry this bu£ "^ ""^^ '°^«" '»«' ««• "kat ^^' — Thk Stork on Sba. jurge, *rrseek'thX7"f O^LnWbyi"' ^iti ''" •*""?*'* °^ *« foam rol 8. The naa wk *i- 7 . ^"y*'- ^he deep » stimd • ^* loud, i tlfes ^h tSrsw'^fi^d""'^" ''•^ ho Jro«:3 ^^f «»nd, with weed and wave Z'h " ^^^ !^^^'>^^ with rtonelSt; wave, dash agauut the steep diflk. -"^-^ vaulteil with the might of the deep, I fight my way on, and stir up the ground, the vast bed of the sea. I cannot free myself from my watery shroud before he who guides me on every path sets me free. Say, O mnn of wisdom, who draws me from the embrace of the flood when the streams become hushed once more, and the surge, which covered me erewhile, sinks to rest. XVII. From the Seafarer (Exeter Book). An old Engliah sea-pictttre. The Seaftirer is, by some, ascribed to Cynewulf, but the weight of authority inclines against this view. True is the tale that I can tell of myself and of my voyaging ; how ill days of toil I have often suffered times of hardship and felt bitter care at heart ; how I have known in my boat many a visitation of anxiety as I felt the fierce rolling of the billows, where the anxious night-watch often held me at the prow of my craft, as she beat against the cliffs. My feet were pinched with the cold, bound with the chilling clasps of frost ; there, too, cares plained hotly round my soul ; hunger within rent the heart of one weary of the sea. This the man knows not to whom on land things fall out most happily ; he knows not how I, miserably careworn, have stayed on the ice-cold sea the live-long winter, as if treading the steps of an exile, deprived of joys, bereft of my dear kinsfolk and covered with icicles. The hail flew in showers There heard I nothing save the roar of the sea and of its ice-cold wave or now and again the song of the swan ; I found my pleasure in the scream of the gannet and the noise of the seal instead of in the laughter of men ; I took solace in the mew as she sang instead of in the quaffing of mead. There storms beat the stony cliffs and there the tern with icy wing gave them back an answer ; many a time and oft did the eagle with its dew-covered pinions scream. Not one of my protecting kinsmen could comfort my poor soul ! Hence it is that he who has experienced the joy of life in cities, and proud and flushed with wine, has scarce known aught of perilous ventures, can little fancy how I in my weariness have often had to bide on the path of the deep. The shadow of night has descended ; from the north has come the snow ; frost has bound the soil ; hail has fallen on the earth, hail, the coldest of grains. ^ Why now do the^houghts of my heart urge me on to try the de«p floods, and the play of the salt surge ? The desire of my mind, hour after hour, bids my soul go onwards that I may visit the land of foreign men fr.i hence. JkMib mtUm Mil 11 I':" ciStll JBnibtrsttg. Poutreal. ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (FIRST YEAR COURSE). I'uoFKssou Chas. K. Moyse, B.A. SUBJECTS. Moiiivchism and Mediaevalism. Some general features of Monachism and Mediaevalism— St. Simon Stylites— the Kise of the Benedictines— tlie Cohimban and P-.»"o„ (Churches — Bede —Alfred — Dimstan — the Norman Conquest— tlie Chroniclers— Map and theCarmina Biirana— the Fnars— Rouer Bacon -Chancer— Wiclif. ^ ILLUSTRATIOMS. XVIII. St. Simeon Stvlitss. Let bhis avail, just, deadful, mighty Go'' '^''^^y'^^l God and morals anffbd rule a hon?eTr7^ ""f' ''r ^^'^'^ '"^ ^'>eir how they sped bS fn' tr^^d'wtrn'-'^'SVd^^^^ ^ .-'cclestastioal orders were both in te^c SramJ .rnin. LrH ""^"u I^ services they had to perform to Gn.l . f i ^^'^'^^"'"g. a^'d "» all the ^vere sought in this h ul Lm wl' "'"f "••^'Jom and learning obtain then, n w f onfa -r 7^ "?"H """^ '"'^ "'" «'"'"JJ have to Pleteiy bad le^nling^^l ^wav i^V Ind tlXT """• "'^ "«•"- on this Rwi« r.( u. „i ' """v" '" -i^ngianu that tliere were verv few "Engll^^l^rdtir^^^^^ I think th^re ^err:!oi^Z!:^i:y^l^J'XZ^t'' ' ^"^ there that I cannot bethink me V ""t o.'.e ^ouM of t.T. '"''■' when r came to the tlironp r^ j i \u ^ , , °^ "'e Thames of teachers Z Wh^n T t ""^'' ?'V^' '^^^'^ ^"^ «"PP'y very, very much at the 11 T'"'^""' *his. then I wondered moie wisdom m the land, the more languages we knew." XX. De captione Episeoporum. UayXU"tl;l\1,el^rfti;Tnd1b "^ ?^-^^t-«t the eighth Kaienus of July, and the prelates already mentioned iSHi attended .t The Bwhop of Salisbury began his journey thither much aganis h.s v^xW, for I heard him .peak to the foUowLj eject liy my holy Lady Mary, I knoA- not l„w. I.,,t ...y heart rfb^ls against thus journey ! One tlung I know, tha-: I .h.dl^rof jj t „ nuicl. use at court as a foal in battle." Thu. his nu:.d kopt fore- bo. ng future evis. Then, a. if f.„,„ne seen.eu to f.vour the k nX desiK., an outbreak arose ),etwee„ the retainers of the bishops and those of Count Alan of Hrittany about the right of nnar eT .s.sue was un ...tun.te; for the liisbop of Salisbury's n,L. vl o Jrt s. U„,g at ;able, lef. their food half .aten, ,,nd darfed out to the hTt Tb. affa.r was at brst one of curses, but presently of sword £ reta.ners of Alan were put to flight, and his nephew was a! mo t sla..; stdl, the victory which the bishops gained was not bloS-s' as n.Mo- were wounded and one knight was killed. The k nf S f ?nS t °"'''!!J' '"^'-'"^ ''"^ '^'=^''"P« '- ^^ summoned by Ts old m.st,gatrtrs .n order to give satisfaction to the court for the d turbance of the royal pence by their men. SaMsfaction could b, p!Id:VofL'eir~Tt Tr'"'"« ^'^^«^'« «' the'TasSl^a pie i<,e of Jidehty The bishops prepared to give 8atir,faction but dalhed over giving np the keys, so the king gave oSers tha they should be more strictly confined, to prevent Their goingawav Chancellor to Devues-the bishop unbound but the nei)hew in chains "nt"wi 1 ^'T'V''^' '"^^ ''°P'' °^ ^^'^"'S the caltlea stru tare William of Malmesbury, Hutorta Novella, Lib. If. (A.D. 1139) For aglimpse of another element to be fonr.I in our prpI,. I,.cf« • XXL aa they go from pnnie^ng, let them ,lo wh=,tevPr is need^' n! iT IS a nio.i one hour past the thir.1 (i.e, 10 a m Ster th„t I. n " read their books until mid dav \ft^« •, i '*"®' '■""t, let them taken their repast, let' tC.^ to th rTsf ' '[h S"" • ^ ''''■', any one should prefer to read when he Utf i f i • *l"»-'t"^«« ! '^ thirt be does not'disturb the others with S' I '"LTetir^r'/r^ monastery ^„i« that they gather thei^lSd. "d" he;te btl'j 1; I Vil< ill ^ liit'-i in that, stiil let tliom not be grieved, for they are true monks if lliej live by the labour of thoir own hands just as 'CiUing all •eviaritim, surprised. was once ^ to know ;d to Him I I should lie book, I ysteries of uany gape self bwren . Brewer). igauj»a ot he G(mftti> \ the nMrt his of literature is chiefly to b« found in two MSS. ; one has been |.iil)li.thed under the title Cainiiiia liniann ; the other under the titli^ of Latin Ponim eonunonhj attihtited I,, Waltrr Mapea. Fkom T/if Covfimion of Gnliaa. (C.IJ.) In the public-house to die Is my resolution ; Lei wine to my lips lie nigh At life's dissolution : That will make the angels cry With glad elocution. " Grant this toper, God on high, Grace and absolution ! " With the cup the soul lights up, Inspirations flicker ; Nectar lifts the soul on high With its heavenly ichor : To my lips a sounder taste Hath the tavern's liquor Than the wine a village clerk Waters for the vicar. Nature gives to every man Some gift serviceable ; Write I never could nor can Hungry at the table ; Fasting, atiy stripling to Vanquish me is able ; Hunger, thirst, I liken to Death that ends the fable. From thb Invitation to the Dance. (C.B.) Cast aside dull books and thought ; ' Sweet is folly, sweet is play : Take the pleasure vSpring hath brought In youth's opening holiday ! Right it is old age shouid ponder On grave matters fraught with care ; Tender youth is fiee to wander, Free to frolic light as air. Like a dream our i)rime is flown Prisoned in a stun"lcwitl,,.ropri,tv; 'ustiii^r eteriiuJly, t^iurtiiig infoniniiy • '"-" t.H „„k«,Mv„ of „.s ; ^i"evowewiihyree.l,nc4: '{rotJiercathoJicnJ, Alan apostolical, Tarn, tan tarn, teino. four Well fni- r k ' eaL- f'..„ 1 •""'^1 in those matters v " ""'les of the sea. - o k,ortl""' """'''' "'"> "eS V b,„^'; ;-' «»-' ""...y able to' it- for n "'■•"""•atical syafem of hJ« . '""^ «^xtremely fe,v -1 meC i ^J,.^-- 'earn, but know [.i J i^ J^ '^^-I-^k the Tijerc are four very ..eat Z ^ """ " ^'*"^«- "■''"'•'' 3«.'"M in the w.;Tf ev vu"''' "C "'^ comprehension of truth ""« to attain to the true Utle 7w^."'"^ "'""' ^"'^ '•'^^"•ly allow a^l ;""' ""-"rthy author* ;,e peZ'- "' "'i"^'^' "^' «'"»P'« of we.k J';»ant nn.liitu.le, and 't e S "2'^ f '">''''' '''* "^tions of Se RoS'ir ''''*"'y '-•ondition of life is 2^k! ' ^"^''"y'ed in these Koger Bacon, o^, ^„/„^ "^« '« t.>ken possession of by them- AS. f ^"^^^ V '/'•W7/'S lit^ant^lt. &/"""!i ^^ «'--«Afe ^"'^ ^»«^«^. acted in 1691, if yot hofuru ; pub. 1^94. Tliu play is bright and vigomuR, and preaenta tliu two Kriars iih tna^iciaiis. Thomaa of Uungay, who waa markadly infliieiiueii l>y Hnuoii, np|H*iirs to have attache«l gnat importiOice to iiiiitlietiiaticM, and l«ctur«d )x)tii at Oxfnnl and Cambridge. A ciiinpaiiy of (liMtiii<,'uiKiied person*, including King Henry III. of Knglaiid tind the Kmpernr of (ierniany, have juat witnessed the dia- I'onititiire of Friar Ilm ;iiy by a Ciennan necromancer, called Jaquea N'ainlernuwt, wiio Iiha raisoil Hurutilea to fitriiTTtfF the brunchea from tho tret* in the garden of tlie lleaperid*>8 which Itiingay had previously caused to appear. Iluiigay is unable to ninke Hercules desist. {Enter IUoon.) Hncnn. All hikil toHbia royal company, That sit to imiir auil soo this slrmge dispute ! — Uiin^'ay, how staud'iit tiiou a« a man amazed ? Wli:it ! hath tiie German acted more than thou 1 Van. Wiiat art thou that uut^stion'st thus 1 Bacon. Men call me Ilacon. Van. Lordly thou look'st, as if that thou wert leam'd ; Thy countenance as if science held her Heat Betwe«n the circled arches of thy brows. A'. //«/!. Now, moiiarchs, hath the German met his match. Emp. liestir thee, Jaiiues, take not now the foil. Lest thou dost lose what foretime thou did'nt gain. Van. Hacon, wilt thou dispute 1 Bacon No, Unless he were more leam'd than Vandorm:ut : For yet, tell me, what host, thou done 1 Van. Rais'd Hercules to ruinate that tree That liungay mounted by his magic spells. Bacon. Set Hercales to work. Van. Now, Hercules, I charge thee to thy task ; Pull off the golden branches from the root. Her. I dare not. See'st thou not great Bacon here, Whose frown doth act more than thy magic can 1 Van. By all the thrones, and dominations, Virtues, powers, and mighty hierarchies, I charge thee to obey to Vandermast Her. Bacon, that bridles headstrong Belcephon, And rules Asmenoth, guider of the north, Binds me from yielding unto Vandermast. K. Hen. How now, Vandermast? have you met with your match? Van. Never before was't known to Vandermast That men held devils in such obedient awe. Bacon doth more than that, or else I fail. Emp. Why, Vandermast, art thou overcome ? — Eaeon, dispute with him, and try his skill. , . Baeon. I came not, monarchs, for to hold dispute ^—^ With such a novice as is Vandermast j t"^'^ I came to have your royalties to dine With Friar Bacon here in Brazen-nose ; 1 i ^1 H ( ih !i. Men. .c»„t ,i,K„,„ „;,, ,2.*°'"",' ";• 'i"'"«. iw '^I "7"" '""^""■""*" "'"«•■'"•>. XX vr. B!/-ts,' that it tea* old Zi '^"^ ,^^^t> Tins vike monk hTSfeZS''''^"^ *"•«'' VV J.at shol.le he stiidie, and .«akT iim i lV>a a book in cJoistr^ alwevto '^"■^^''^•« ^«^' Or swinken with his handes and ffi ' M Austin bit? How flhaUK ^"r' Lat Austin have hia swink to t '""''^ ^ •^^'^^ ? Therefor he vyas a nrf "™ rewrred. Pr„i 1 , ? P"ca8our ariffhfc • (^rehoundes he hadde, as swift, „» * , • I seigh h,H sieves purtiJed »t the hi ^^' Wi h grys. and that the fynesU •Hi . ' ■' And, for to festne hi, hoi"„*;?e,tr,^^„^ II* hatlda of gold* y-wmgtii « curioua pin : A love-knot in the ((rettar tn«l« tber wm. liia head waa balicJ, tkat ahoon aa any ;^laa, And eek kia face, aa he hatkio been anoinu Jle wiiH u lonl ful fat aitd in goo«l |ioint : l{i8 cyt'u at^iw, and ollinge in hi* heed, Tliot atcnitfil aa a forneya of u leed ; Hia lH)te8 »oii|(|p, \u» hora in greet t-atat. Now certainly he waa n fair prelat ; He waa nat iwie aa a for pyned gooat. A fat swan loved he beat of any rooat Hia iwj/rey waa na hrouii aa ia a lieryo. Chaucer. Protog%t»: to Ike CanterUtry Taltt. (Morria and Skeat'a text). XXVII. Friar Laurenre's relu Knter Friar Lacrbwcb, with a hadcet. Frt. L Now, ere the atin advance liia burning eye The day ic cheer and niglit's dank »low to dry, ' I niust np-HII thia oaior cage of oiira With baleful weeds and prccioua-juicetl ilowera .... 0, mickle ia the powerful grace that lies In herba, planta, stonoa, and their trne o9ed kings encamp tham still In man aa well as herbs, grace and rude will ; And where the worser is predominant. Full soon the cankered death eats up '.hat plant. Shakspero, Romeo and Juliet, Act 11., Scene III. From Chaucbr's Dmoription or thu Friar, yfrologrie.) His tipet was ay faraed ful of knyves And pinnes for to yeven faire wyves. And certeinly he hadde a mery note ; Wei coude he singe and pleyen on a rote. Of yeddinget he bar utterly the prya. Hie nakke whyt waa aa the flour-de-lys. Iher-to he strong was as a champioun. He new the tavernes wel in every toun. And everich hoatiler and teppestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere. xxviir. I/' aarirt^MJ'^"^^''"."^-^,'*? '^^'^'^^'^^ Canon Law. and, as many aasert, Medicine and Civil Law, scarcely a useful book ia ti be found Znyen7t^rl\^^ "" f™ ^"^Jt up by the friar., so that ia every c^vent there ,8 a great and noble library, and every one of them who has a recognued position in the Universities (un.i such are now aJiu signihcant, although exaggerated.) XXIX. •midst .he „.„„.. pover7rL»t-rici,„„,T,iJ:;r '""P'' "" Iliese nie.i are as ant. ever preparine "leir meat in tile summer and I .geinous bees continnally fabricating cells of honey h."':L7enteX:',;:^r;re;'!;^"^''' ''■»' '"'^-;t;'"!r^ ^UedTutlrS '°"»'""« '» 'he footsteps of Pan], the last tot Richard de Hury. PhUobihlon (1345). XXX. The la^t description .f the onco celebrated library of the Francis cans at Oxford, written shortly before the dissolution of the Friary „,il' "'^^K'"','''''''"*'^ ^^''"'^ '^^'« *>■« cobwebs in the library and n :1= -I VI I mmrmm 56c@iU Unbeveit^, Montreal ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (FIRST Y!AR COURSE). PaoFEsaoB Chas. E. Motse, B.A. SUBJECTS. The Arthur-saga. Tts European aspect — the questions to which its compar-itive study givos rise— its relation to our own Literature— Spenser's Faerie Queene. The Idylls of the King — the title — an allegory pot a parable. The Coming of Arthur — the mystery of Arthur's birth — the coro- nation of Arthur — the allegorical meanrng of the three Queens — of the colour of the ra^s — Merlin — the allegorical meaning of the Lady of the Lake -ofExcalibur — of the ship and tlic wave in a flame — Leodogran's dream — its significance — tlie marriage hymn. Gareth and Lynette — the allegory of the story of the royal Eagle — tho meaning of Camelot — of the sate — of tlic old man's story — of the quest of Oiirctb — nf the Kniuhis and their colours and the river. Oernint and fJnid—iia source — the court as yet seemingly pure. Balin and Balan — foreahado wings — King Pellan. s false Arthur^ the chapel. Merlin and Vivien — complementary to Oeraint and Enid — the foal court — the storm. Lancelot and Elaine — contrast between Elaine and Guinevere. Holy Orail — Allegorical meaning of thci, sculpture in the Hall — of the wiodowB— of Peroival's quost — of Galahad's passing to the Holy City — of Sirfiors'a adventure — of Lancelot's — why Arthur does not go on the Quest. Pelleat and Ettarre — ^Pelleas and Elaine — the shadow deepens. The Last Tournament — the fool — Sir Tristram's character — the shadow deepens still more. Quinevere — the repentance — the scene with Arthur — ita poetical quality — not " too iatc.'' The Patting of Arthur — the picture of the last great battle — tlM dose bf the alkigwj. 1 1 Hk. I., ('anto IULUSTRAXlON». XXXI. Spenser^, i,,,.^ (The Faorio Q..eeno, m) . Una ( Truth) ...eots Arthur (J/,./«.> v...). A goodly knight fam- marchi,,^. by the wav Together with his squire, airayed met : ' li 8 glmerand armour shineii iar axvav Like glauncing light of Phci-bus' briduest ray • That deadly d.nt of stocle o.idan.^T may ■ That sh.nd, l,k« twmkling stars, with stone's ...ost pretious His haughtie hehnet, horrid all with gold For all r"' ^'•■S''*"^^^'^ ^^^ '-"•-'t torroiu bn.l • ^r all the crest a .Iragon did enf..M With grecdie fares and over ail did spred rini , '^J"-^ = •"« 'ircadinW hideous hod VrZ fl""''""' "" ""■ ^''''' •^«'»'<1 to throw rh.t suddeino horrour to tai,/to l.artes did sl,o\v And «caly tayl. was streeht ado.vne his b..k fan'io.v. Upon the top of all his loftie crest A bunch ofhai.es discojourd diversly With sprn.clod pearie. and goi.l full richly drest Did shake, and seenud to daunce for jollirv Like to an almond tree vmounted hvo ' On top of greene Selinis'all alone, With blossoms bravo bedeck,.! daintily ■ Whose tender locks do tremble every o,.o At every httlc breath, that under heaven is blowne His warlike shield all eio.selv covr'd was Nem..ht of mort.dl eye be ever scene -Not made of Steele nor of enduring bras But all of diamond perfect pure and cleene It tranied was, one massy entire mould ThaTZT "/^'''*'"^°^ '•««''•« with engim-s keene 1 hat point of speero it never pe. cen coujd, Ne d.nt of d.refull sword divide the substance would Una asks Arthur concerning his lineage. Bk. I., Canto IX. Faire virgin (said the Prince) ye me r A thmg without the compas of ,ny wit- For both the l.gnage a..d the certain sire l^rom which I sproDg, from mc are hidde rare. ■■'-''« 'M .iMt ' '■'Si XXXII. 7%*' re/en itcf in Nennius to the cxploita of Arthur. Nennius is ill all likelihood a fictifious niime, and the Historia Britonum in Latin, which purports to be his, has apparently undergone several recensions. Then it was, that the luaiinaniinous Arthur, with all the kingB and niilitiiry fbrcus of Britain, fought ngainst the Saxons. And tliouuh there were nmny more noble than himself, yet he wa« t welve times chosen their conimamler, and was as often conqueror. The first battle in which he was engaged was at the mouth of the river (ricni. Tlie second, third, fourth and fifth were on sinother river, by the Britains called Dugluss, in the region Linuik The sixth, ou the river Bas'sas. The .^^evcnth, in the wood Celidon| which the Britons call Cat Coit Ceiidou. The eighth was near Gurnion castle, where Arthur bore the ima2;e of the Holy "Virgin, mother of QroA, upon his shoulders, and through the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the holy Mary, put the Saxons to flLht, and pursued them the whole day with great slaughter. The ninth was'at the City of Legion, which k called Cair Lion. Tlio tenth was on the banks of the river Trat Treuroit. The eleventh was on the mountaio Breguoin, which we call>:it bright winter s day ( She told them of the lairy-haunted land, Awav the other side of Brittany, Tl.rou..h wnose green uougns w.e s"— ■ «»»«»'*"« «'<^^P^ Where Merlin by the enchanted thorn-tree sleeps. For here he came with the fay Vivian, One April, when the warm days first be^an. He was on foot, and that false fay, his friend, On her white palfrey ; here he met his end, In those lone sylvan dados, that April day. This tale of Merlin and the iovoly fay Was the one Iseult chose, and she brought clear Before the children's fancy him and her. ThcY'ca-ne'to where the brushwood ceased, and day Peer'd 'twixt the stems; and the ground broke away, In a sloped sward down to a brawling brook ; And up as high as where tluy >^tood to look On the brook's laither side was clear, but then The underwood and trees began agun. This open glen was studded thick with thorns Then white with blossom, and you saw the horns, Thr.ugh Iftst year's fern, of the shy f""«'-J«"^^ Wiio qome at u(\ The blossoni'd thmn *. »" ' w.tves it„ver Nine titnc. .,' ^'e^ S S: ''" ^'^'^"'"^ '"-r. And made, little S ''^.°^"^^'''"n' mmpl^ round And in thatdaitSd c.>l '-^^ "™"='J- Is Merlin prisooi til H '•'."'"" '^'^' Sir Thomas Malory's 1',,./ ^ ' ^ B«divere depart .dr/K*^ ''■''"^y bring you o.T ^''"- ''°'»™*»d- thepomJlS ,.V '^ bj the- way he bel.dd thl/ kF*'"- '^° »'> iSxcaliburundfr« .. "^r "'"^ ''«^- And Lr.^'' n",':'^^ «hal| the king, S'lj, Tjt ''' -". - '- Stt ^;tr ■ '""' sword into the water wtl^^"" "*' "'e water, and had S.tn^*"'."' he said, I saw noth ;. k^^^ rawest thou there V sL ,k ^''*'"* ">« tb«e, said To t " •"?' ""^^^"^ ''"•^ winds ThJ ■ '"' ¥« Sir, Then Sir Bcdivorc returned again, and took the sword in his hanil ; and then him thought sin and Hhaiiit; to throw away thii' noblu sword ; ami so e(t hi' hid tlui sword, and returned a^ain, nnd told to I lie kiu^ tlint lie h.id lieiii :it tlu> wtitt^r, nml dufH' Ills oomiuandmcnt. Whiit saw thnu ttierr? ^a;il the kinj:. Sir, lie 8;iid, I faw nothing l)ut the wan rs wap and tin: w.ivis wan. Ali, traitor, untrue, laid kintr Artliur, now Iia>t tliou bctiaycd uie twice. Who would have wend that thou that lia.'^t bun to me so inf .-ind dear, and thou art a Danied it noble knight, iiid would hctiay nic for tli'.' riches of the sword. But niiw go afraiii liirlitly, for thy lonji larryiuf; |iuttctli me in great jcippardy of my lilc, lir I havt- lakcn cold. And but ii thou do now as 1 bid theo, if cvt r I may mo thoc I siiall slay ihoe with nij own liands, for thou wouUKst ior my ricli swor.l sec inc dead. Then Sir Bedivere dipartcd and went to the sword nnd lightly took it up, and went to the water -ide, and there he brum I the girdle about tho hilts, and then he threw the sword as far into the water as he might, and there eanie an arm and an hand above the water, and met it and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the swor.l in th( water. So Sir Bedivere came again to the king and toM him what he s;iw. Alas, .''aid the king h<'lp mo henee, for 1 A n J,^" ^'?*' ' ^''' P""t'^d «« i^^ Le Joseph d'A.i„athie.- At T eldTt. i^'' ^""' ^^'."'' "« found. 3. Pe..5ival. Prose rimanee " P'"* ^"™''>» « 4. Queste del Saint Graal. Prose ro-n.-n^ce. 5. Grand St. Graal. Prose romance. ^ Pallets "ST.::: ^'"'°""""»" ^^"'-'^ u, Bobs,, d. Bo^T OT'2r.„ffi;r"'»' ""^** 5)ic3tll Unwcr^itt), 5Dlontrcal. ILIUITRATIOIIS OF ENOLISH IITERATURI (FIRIT YEA« CittRU). Professor Chah. E. Mothe, B. A. aUUJBCTt*. Teriod of Italian influenco. First sub diviaion : The infloenoe of rent Italian writerB on great English writers— the lofluenoe of the tti>t Italian triumvirate. Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, on Cliauoar and the Chauceriaa«i. , riL-u ii« «^j A gUnco at the history of Italy— tijo Guelf and Ghibeliioe feud- Florence and Dante Alighieri— Dante's place in Liter»tare--wnM of his characteristics as a philosopher -\d n poet— the plan of the I^nno Oomcdy-the plan of Milton's l-aradise Lost— Humanism— Krao- cpsco Putrarca and Qiovanni Boccaccio. XXXVIII. DANTE. Tosoan, that wandcrcst threugh the realms of gloom, With thoughtful pace, and sad, majestic eyes, Stem thoughts and awfnl from thy soul arise, Like Farinata from his fiery tomb. Thy sacred song is like the tramp of doom ; Yet in thy heart what haman sympathies, What sofc compassion glows, a<4 in the skies The tender sturs their cloadcd lamps relume 1 MethiokB I see tliee stand with pallid checks, By Fca Hilario in his diooeae, As up the oonyent walls, in golden streaks, The asccwdiBg sanbeams mark the day's decrease ; Andj M he asks what there the stranger seeks, ^ fhj voice along the cloister whisper* " Peace ! " LOKQFELLOW. line 4, Jfw-MKite.— See Inferno, Canto X. _ lane 10, T. Tiiarw— Sec Longfellow's Translation of Uu MtVtte Oeqiedy (Boufiedge), p. 199. illl iii 1 i! 1 ■ % t: H. ^ ^ r ' »• \\ M 1 , Iii. i ! 1 11 if. rl! ^i H ,^: W v^'w? ■ ! i 1 ■'-■»■■?'* pi' 1 i III '.-. i '■ I '- Sj-^ I _:; 11^ i r M ;jr ;■ V* 1^ ;;?: ; yj,. :* ?S i & { ttdm m Al y\\s\ XXXIX. TiiK KifiHT Sunn MK Mkvtbich. r.!i.lj nine iin..N .since my l.iitli il... he.ivci ,.r IJ.J.t I,,„l It'U It.. iCtollltllMI (III i(.t Jorious ladv of niV tlinll.rlits, wl W||, II fliPi ppiMIVil 1(1 inv ).y ucfoni- iC till' n.)win« wliiit nunic (.. ^'jvo li.r woiihv of I loni iiiiinv iK'iM.ns call.'^l H.^tric, n.>( starry licavon \m\ lui.v.il (V ini tlic (xci.lent t« tl • r. Mil.,- h.T i.irtli till part of a il, unc, m, (|,.a J „.,„ 1,^^ .,» t| year iiiid tMW.irlH ih fn( very nolilf i nl. ur, wliiel I nt uiino she waM -irdlal .md iidonuMl "' - n""i^'i "1(1 u.ioni.Mi II, a miinncr wliich I youlhlul nj-o. At fl.u* Mi,„„.,,t r say ,i„|y th;.t tl !«■ on.iii the twrllih «' fdinnipniiiiicrit of hor ninth Sill' appcarfd i<> m,. ,.|i,d j„ criiiisdii, and I \v;is 8uli(liu(| an.! nioiJcnt mid i» miinnt'r wliich l)cfitt.(l her uxtn-nidv I Wl f ti^iil.. *t,..A ^1. . • -. r (Iwoii^ ill th r m.)-t M-crcv (.jianil).! ..f („. 'jif.irt I Hfn.uifly. U.:.titni:,nifest<-li,.(Hrvi,.|,.„tly in tli- I body , and, tr.Mi.blin.', it naid th, sc words • AV .« j rnne,.s ilomhuiUt,,, m!/,;. i lUdicId a Cod st il- spintol liCe whicli ><',i,'ait 'o fieuihio k« // ca>t pnN^i of <■'•« /A».s firtmr nif. my shall come un( I rul e over mtM— Dan tl!. A./ |',V„ .V XL. ron^'er than I, who TiiK F.mKstr\i...wiN(i uv tiikJUvi.vk Comkdv, T .■^27.!''''Tr»'' "';''■' '"»''''''"■*■'' '" '"^' " ^-'-'dcrftil visi(,n, i„ which I saw th ng8 hat n.ndo n,o n-.-lvc n..t to ..peak uion- of thi. S- ono unt. sued. t.m.. as I cr„id di^conr-c „,o,o worthily 1, tT ADdtoth.,>.c.udUtnv.asn.ucha.slcar., ju.t a., sho L cTknow« wci. So that, ,f,t .hall pleas.. Ilin, through whou. all th -. r.? th.t my he continue for .^onie years I hope tc say of h.r that" wl irh has never been «aul of any woman. And then ...a/ it d^ase h m £ .8 the lord of courtesy, that my n.ind ,lep:.rt to L the Jo y of ,« lady J mean of that blessed Be.triee, who gloriously jrazes hfho f.l (The r/^/jV«o/7,, which describes the love of J»antc for Beatrice Portiuan, -s written in Italian, and consists of prose and 2^ v Dant« ana.j:.e9h.3,K,ems, exph.ining the meaning of" each portio^ TnK Account ok XLI. D.\.\TF.'.S F188T ATTRArnON ToWARDS Philosophy. When for me the first delight of D7 soul was lost, coDccrnina which mentton has been made already, I declare that I Vomain" %tkS wuh such deep grtef that no comfort availed me. After some timeS? reason which mce8.,antly sttovc to find a remedy, since neither mToJJ consolation, nor tho.^e of others brought any relief, formed the "/ea" of having recouLse to the means which some disconsolate spirite had adopted to console themselves. And I app».;„d myself to rcaySub^k of Boethius, unknown to many. i„ which, when ietctJadrTn e^e ■another book in which, when discusaing thothemo 01 friidshj,!" 3 1- <■ HI ^ ig^mn. J i.laU'il liow lijcliui, a most cxcollcnt luan, foun;iiicd iier faHhioncd liko I ludilu i;idy, and could not pitluro her in any >?uise cave one full of j.ity. Wherefore uiy sense so marvelled at lier of its own accord that I could scarcely turn from tier. And bceausK! of this itnaj,'iniD};, I I . -;un to go where she truly showed herself, — that is, in ♦'«• HchooU of ilie ruH^iouH and in tlie disputations of nhilortopher*, bo I'lat in a short lime, perchance in some thirty months, I begun to fool her iwuetnesa ' much, that love for h(!r- chised away an 1 desiroved every other thought in me For this lady was the daughter of(jt»d, WIS the queen of all, was that most noble and beautiful thing, pliilosophy. — Dantk, // C»niitll V • ; ., '"^f^ '''^" know that man k solria it r drew them t.^ i. 1 'T^^'"" clear fount; but seein-^ my As to the sonThe m tt 'S?prrud ^^l' «'""" V'^^^''^^ »^'-- what bitter tastcth the . air, ^T. " '^'l^'"'^ ^« »"« ^ f«r ^on,e. (Charles Eliot NortoStrariation)"" '''y~^"'9- C'anto XXX. XLlIf. Satan from hence, now on the lower .tair Ihat scnled by steps of gold to Heaven-gato 0^ thi^Vt '""^'' '' '^' «"^J<1'^° view' Ot all this World at once. As when a scour Through dark and de.sert ways with peS io ^" "•g'^l- *' I'^st by break of Jheerful'iiwn Obtems the brow of some high-climbin^S Winch to h,8 eye discovers unaware '^ ' 1 he goodly prospect of some foreign land ^ seen, or some renowned metropolis mthuT!^^ •P?''' ^"^ pinnacles adorned Which now the rising sun gilds with his beam, . Such wonderse zed, though after Heaven TeT ' Of Wight's ext..nded shade) from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that boars '^ Andromeda far off Atlantic seas Jieyond the horizon ; then from pole to pole He views ,n breadth,-and, without lonS pause J>ow„ right into the World's first region" h rot" ' llirough the pure marble air his oblique wav Amongst .nnumerable stars that shour ^ Stars distant, but nigh-hand seemed other worlds MitTON, Pa^Mlise Lo.t, Bk. Ill, lines 640-566. XLIY. To Brunetto Latim. Sent irith thr Vita Nmrrn. Master Brunetto, rliis my little maid Is come to sp 'id her Easter time with you Not that Wl " !:..i(5 *ea>tinj; as her due. — losc It J JH hanJly t(; e fed, but read. Not in i Nor mi" h'lvry can l;or onse be weigh 'd, f'l . JLvtt; 61 ar / noisy crew : All ! ant^ .-■ l wu." r little coaxin;; too Belorc slie'll <,'et iuto another's head. But if you do not find hor meaning clear, You've many Brother Albt>rts h:ird at hand, Whose Mrisdom will respond to any cill. (Vinsult with tliem and do not laugh :it her; -And if she still is hard to understand, Apply to Master Janus l:i.«t of all. J)ante. [Tran^aiion by D. G. Rossctti (1828-1882).] l>'ne 10, Brother Alberts. •' Probably in allusion to Albert of Cologne." Line 14, Master Janus. " It seems probable that Dante is merely playfully advising his preceptor to avail himself of the twofold insight of Janus the double-faced." The sonnet is of doubtful authentieity. Brunetto Latiui, Dante's tutor, is placed ia Inferno. See Canto XV. 30. He was also the tiior of (luido Cavaleanti, one of Dante's eirele of poets. Seethe strikin"- refer- ence to Guido Cavalcanti in Inferno, Canto X. 63. '^ And so. XLV. One day when Dante felt perplex'd If any day that tjould come next Were worth the waiting for or no, And mute he sat amid their din, — Can Grande called the Jester in. Then facing ou his guest, he cried, — " Say, Messer Uante, how it is I got out of a clown like this More than your wisdom can provide." And Dante : " 'Tis man'u ancient whim That still his like seems good to him." Also a talc is toid, Luw uuce, At clearing tables after meat, Piled for a jest at Daote's feet Were found the dinner's well-picked bones ; 80 lai'l, to please the banquet's lord, By one who crouched beneath the beard. t" m Il ' R' i I r ThcuMniled Can (;,,u,.let,.M,o rest, fe*' ".any honos you'd net d...sn-v lA As th Tlii.s . :» t;iIo tdls tl,;,t on I 1 1-* (IMcl entna'.s .-truois I H as CI iroiii,'h \' '3"i,^' certain womuu .,„, ;,',' strolls „, H,i, „„, 1^;,^^- I'C Went. :V»iil' JiolK.id I W llelVat Jfl V '" i^evcitlic'lcss i>-ped his beard 'iinl reck ^'"ged his cheek. ■ '^.11 ^ j,H-eaccio'.s words) '• he sn.ilM U'*-^- ' It niinjht I wc cannot know lie so I'iy lie were not Ijeguiled To hit! ■rer nii, tj,, who se H\ ■ ,-—■"", wno se " '»e indeed were back fV %;li;'''"{/-''""^ after a space, When Dante fdt assured th^t '^l.esunshmc must be sicklier ■arce could tell •otn JJell. Tl, tl lierc Kven than He ^-en I han many other place «aa come, he rose and went his w„„ way. c went and turned not From J., • i Itni . be M.nn... „i •, .:'^^"i'»ssIioes As S Ci Ouce and be that he shook the d 't;ry righteous dealer usf. must "ce ana again ere life can close Ad unaccomplished destinv fitruek cold his forehead it y may be Our i)antc with tht binir brlS "'''' ''' n;iTrn'*^^V''"^'«^^hosc> stairs A;>\"'""P«tl..^''i'^ feet knew idl I^-^NTE ( ABRm'^P '"'"*^ ^''^'"ileavenorHeli "'"' R...ssErT. (182S-1882), /S, .,, ,,,,„,, VI in The moriiiiig of the 8iii XL VI. -undoftrumi^ts; and the pel^ever S ' .^-.-'-'d in by the lu.irtrrs ,ee ihc cereu.ODv Tweltl .,*"* ** ''''^^ "aine from 3l a"..lHsofRome, and clotKd ir^car?;'"''''' '-'^'^^^ '"••"'» ^h'bT ii;^£:r s;r"r ^-^^--^Tthetet'^-rr"' - plnHwJ • ''^'•P'e. Ihey were foUowo.J k„ .'' P"*^s "» honour of a,co,npauied l.y tl.o first uun of tho council. The streets were strewed uitl. flowers, M .1 .1,.. w.n,low. fillcl with hulics, drcsse.l in the most >I.leiu]id man, r who siiowereape> AN hen th.y re.,ehed the Capitol, the .rumpet^v.M. L lid I etrareh, h.-ivM.g made a short speech, in which he .,ootcd a verse |..u. V,r^il,ened out tj.. -times'' l.,ns live the iJo.nanpeop|...! lon.r live tlic Senators may U . I preserve their liberty !" At the coaclu'^ ... of these wonk he knelt befbre the senator 0..so. who .akin"' a -Mown d laurel from h.s own h. ad, pl.-.ced it on that <.f Petr.rd. <;.yn..:, i his cr.nvn is the reward of virtue." The iH)et then repeated .sunnet.n pra.>e of the ancient Romans. The pe'.ple tcitifiJtleir .-probation by >b„„is of applause crying, "Ln„/fl„,',,is,, t,,e Capitol '.'"', "'^^T' ■ . .^ ''^ '■•"''nJ'* f l^ftrarch shed tears of joy an >t.^ano Colorma, h,s favourite heui, addressed the a.ssembly in hi honour The ceremony ha vn,- been finished at the Capitol, the proccs" on ..i.i.dst the sound of .run.jK^ts and the acclamations of the people re! I aired tJunee to the church of St. Peter where Petrarch offefed up Is I -own of laurel before the altar. The same day the Count of An^u ! lara caused letters patent to be delivered to Petrarch, in wh^h" d e H.mtors, after a flattermg prean.ble, declared that he had n.erited le -leofa great poet and h.st..r,an ; that, to mark his distinctiortlev i;.d put upon his head a laurel crown, not only bv the antl.mif J % K.n, Eobe.t. but l^ that of the Roman SenaSnd^;;,: ' j' {.:/ l-y L'aye h,m at Rome and elsewhere, the privilege to read to lispu « ...explain ,.ne.ent books, .0 make new ones to compose poms and to we.r a crown acco-ding to hi. choice, eithcr'of laurel^ beeJh o. myrH^ ;:^5!d^t?S;^ """^- '''''"' '-- ^ r--.ar'dres/^ From Petmrch',1 Sv.nets ,n,d Li/r (Bohu's Illustrated Library;. XLVIT. To Laura in Death. Sonnet LXXXIIL Volo con I' lilt de' priisiriinl cielo. He seems to be with her in Heavev. So often on the wings of thought 1 fly Up to heaven's blissful seats, that I appear As one of those whose treasure is lodged there The rent veil of mortality thrown by. ' A pleasing chillness thrills my heart, while I Listen to her voice, who bids me paleness wear— Ah ! now my friend, T love thee, now rcve. e. tor cham-d thy face, thy manners," doth she cry She lead ^ her Lord : and then I bow Prefcrr jle pmyer. He would allow ibat nous face and hew might see. Ihuf .168 : " Thy destiny's secure ; lo ,. , - ,ie twenty, or some ten years more. la rut htifc apace, though long it seetna to theC'-Notr. XLvrii. Baiite's j,'enius did not wait Ion- for officii! ro.-o.miflnn Ti SrS'/'' '''"'"^^ *""'"^^'' ^ ^''•-- '0'- 'he «,,;:'; "works : Horenco Boccac-co's com.n.ntary extends to the .seventeenth Mne i I • cntcneo. Jh..t the leclu>.r had ent.c.s in his audience is apparent r onool .l,.M„ ..wK.. fi,llowinL' sonnet: Ironi his iiddressinp- one of thoni in tht T(. ONE WHO MAUCEXS.RE.. ,„s PI UC.C Kxpns.TJO.N OK DanTE. If l)ante mourns, there ul.ere.oeer he be, Ihat such hij^h fancies of a soul so proud Should be l.Md open to the vnl^'.-.r crowd, (As, touching my Di>c,iurse. I'm told by thee ) xhis wen. my grievous p.iii ; and c.Mtainlv My prrprr bla me should not be d isavow'd ; 1 hough hereof somewhat, I declare aloud n (Me due to others, not a one to me irT ''T'J ']"' r"''"^^'' ""^' tlxrewithal Ih.^ b mdcd judirment of a host of friends Andlhe,rentre.,iies, mndethatldid thus. Knt of all this there is no irain at all Unto the thankless souls' wltli whose base ends .Nothing agrees that's great or generous. ' (Translation by I). G. liossetti.) I.VSORIPTIO.N FOR A rohTRAIT OF I/ANTE. Dante Aliqhieri. a dark oracle Of wisdom and art, I am ; whose mind Has to my country such great gifts assion'd lliat men account my powers a miracle My lo ty fiucy passed as low as Hell, As high as Heaven, secure and unconfin'd- And II. my noble book doth every kind Of earthly lore and heavenly doctrine dwell JCenowneU Horcnce was my mother.-nay SiMimotber unto me her piteous son Through sin of cursed slander's tongue and tooth liaveuna sheltered me so cast away • My body is with her,-my soul viith One *or whom no envy can make dim the truth IllUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (FIRST YEAR COURSE). \'r.,ny.s<.,:i ('n\s. I!. M,,v.„k. M.A. A coiiip:ira( ^'i iAli:c-rs. ivo view ol'l'hmcer. Sliakspc iwmodooflif«^ZcS"T,r^nt- Wbe.. the is silent. '' ''"'' '" '•^■'^"" cases with A, the tinai e haf^st?:i:t;;;;i!rt"^^'l*^ ^-^ «•'-- *»-*- comparatively mod. ro "'"'"' "* '"^ '» '^'^l, which i. i til 1 J- W ' XXXIX. one tsiics Ihy likeness on her. Time hiij. ..,.,„ F«sh rain,™, .U i. Tain and „„ ™ arr, ' W n J'"' " ■■" "T '" '^'y l»"e done Onrfa.,icha„ee,,hc;i:;';„'!*?h;rn,„ fathe, Chaucer, hero we praise thy nau.e. A. C. Swinburne, • '"^ " '"""'"^ ^'>"'f(^ Midsuimncr Holiday). {•ppy with a crust and spr n./-wa cf !S 1 V^' '"'t'' ^^ """i'* »« ben^ face in a flagon o&r,? w h.; 1h ''^/"' ^'^'^ '''"•*°'' ^^ •»» opposite . c, .^....^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .ro't^isTit^^gi"' " look tf. ( iod without abjcctness, and on man withotit contempt. The pupil of Oiinifold experience,— scholar, coartier, Holilier, ambassador, who )i;id known poverty as a housemate and been the coinpanio-i of prinoes, — li is WIS one of those happy temperaments that could equally enjoy botii liaives of culture,— the world of l)ooks and tlic world of men. " Unto this day it doth niine hertO boote, ' That I have h.id my world as iu my time !" Tln! jMirtrait of Chuuccr which we owe to the loving regret of his -lisciple Occleve, confirms the judgment of him which we make from his works. It is, I think, more en-aging than that of any other poet. The (lowncnst eyes, half sly, half meditative, the sensuous mouth, the broad brow, drooping with weight of thougiit, and yet with an iiiex- jmgnable youth shining cut of it as from the morning forehead of a boy, are all noticeable, and not less so their harmony of placid tender- ness. We are struck, too, with the smoothness of the face as of one who thought easily, whose phrase flowed naturally, and who had never puckrrcd his brow over an unmanageable verse. James Ru8.sell Lowkll. — Literar;/ Essni/s, Chtnieer. 321 330 340 XLI. I And, sooth to scyu, my chambre was Ful wel depeynted, and with glas Were al the windows wel y-glased, Ful clere, and nat an hole y-crased. That to bcholde hit wasgret loye. For hoolly al the storie of Troye Was in the glasing y-wroght thus, Of Ector and king Priamus, Of Achilles and Lumedon, Of Medea and of lason. Of Paris, Bleyne, and Ijavyne. And alle the walles with colours fync Were peynted, bothe text and glose, (Of) al the Bomaunce of the Rose. My windowes weren shet echon. And through the glas the sunne shon Upon my bed with brighte bemes, With many glade gilden stremes ; And eek the welken was so fair, Blew, bright, clere was th^ir, And ful atempre, for sothejhit was) ; For nother cold nor .hoot i^nas, Ne in al the welken was aliogde. . CHAtJOEa, The Bdok of the Duehe$»e. (Skcat's text.) 324, jonged bnken; 333, glose, margin; 334, echon, each one: 340, atempre, mild. ' % :■ - I Mtmiim ■^ammii i' J' I I H 'it , i XLir. J be toiupli. . •' • I (^"Jtil! '■''^'■'' '!''"•'-' '^-'''; ^f^.r,:&'':i;;;„::»": S?n- ----'''-• -«'ul th(» bc-Mti flip ^,„ ' And wonno. .md ici,,„ p.- A'-d Polite. IUs.t;;?^:^y-'ay„. ;\"d Paris t„h:„o„,. *=- A i f ^r" to Medoa • T'«J.v,.ltel,i,„„|e.Lo!... (3Gr.) 1455 MfcO 147(1 14S0 UiJO 1500 XLiir. Thesj, of which.- I ;;inno rede, Ther saujrh I stone, That for to bore hit was no "ame But yit I If..,,, fill wel t.spy,/ Betwix heni was a littl cnvye One seyde, Omere made lyes, i'eynin<^e in hi^ poctryes, And was to Grekes f.vorable ; Tlierfor held he hit hut fahle.' Tiio sau-h 1 stonde on a pileer, II at was ol tinned yien deer TjiatLai , poete (dan) Virjj'yle, I hat bnre hath up a ionise whyle The fame of Piu.s Eneas" And next him on a pjler was Of fo|K3r, Venus clerk, Qvydo,' Tliat haih y-sowcn wonder "wyde The grete -jod of Loves name. And ther he bar up wel his fame I. [ion thispiier, also hye As I might SCO hit with myn ye Kiwhy this halle, of whichc I rede V\ .s woxe on hi-ht»'fr«->yl'"«hc wore wood, l)an Claudian, the so.h to telle. 1 hot bar up al the fa,.,e of heile. OfPluto, andofProserpyno, i- hat quene is of the derko pyue Chauckr._7V.c- ITous of Fame. Liue.s I45r,-1512. (Bk. III., lines 365-422) (Skeaf. text). I;t56, ginoo rede, hvqia to descrlh, ■ \±Kei i andnotatTouIoJ^ ' S w?n p?' ^"7/" ^^M^s (A.J). (.1). sanie blunder. SV/,IS' ^S^- ^'"'"««^f«^l"^^•^ I'vre, inakes the ') .^'^''Z' f>.ins Phry- oMnmed authorrof °io shit I iV; . '^'"'"' ^."'" ^'^«^='°) ^^'^"^^ 'he »"ing the middle v'es w 1 Ho/™'*' ""r''^**' "^^''^ ^J^'">" »*r. discredited as a -leSfS^ SZ"" ^^ '|°°'»'" ^"ly by natne and from which the 'rs of the T-" " '■"^^' "*"'"'" "'"' *'"'•^•^' Guido delle Colo,.,.u /line UfioTT '""'^ ^'''^^'"'^ '" '^•■"^ '"^''^^'ial. ashisamhorities „ lisliS; J^;'?^'*"'''' "T^. D"e.and Dictys ^as quite familiar, and 5 wS ft"!' " ''"n'''"' ''^'*''' ^'»'^"'^''- ever, the Historia Tr Jana Ts bu„H ..K "''• ?"• ^^'""•""•io", how- de7Vo,-eofBenoit Tlim. Talo ^n l.''T't''°" "^ ''''^ ^«'»"» Troy story is largely d«r qS^^^^^ ,'"''"''''*'" P0P»""ity o'' the •«toMid/leEngri..hl[tcrature whhM :'^""J'''J''"'* '^'"'d its way gives an accounto7fhe Itle.'.enrof h'' T^'^'^''^. '^ ^°«'"««'A,- who becomes almost a c^on J ace i, s!h!f "^1"' '" ^"'^■"- ^"•^^^ ^^ble .ve. eye; 1493, for-why, Am,««r UQ^ „ ' '° Y''.'!' *'>* '^9-'. del, . John Lvdoate, Tempko/Glat (Schick's Text). (The cariy English symbol for a »oft*ued g has been changed to gh er y in a few places.) XLV. 1967 (1109) Why sholde I nc^ht a» wel eek telle yow al The portreiture, that ws upon the wal WiUi-inue the temple of mighty Mars the rede ? III Im * 1 *r JE fr . •4'' : »i r* '" which theru Jirr'"^!""''' ' ^"'"^^'< Tl rmipotento, iM'tlto. •er stood nteiiipJc of M And tl '*-'»■ out onrii u "•"go and such a "r to .sec. VOHC, !!'»<• Tiled ihurgh which men lores were alle o( a.J <■ M 01 lie was th.-r no nii^'l'fon .my light ,|, iMtiunt (tonic ll.SCCIIIC. -jnohedovc.rthwart,;i;ji:;;;,:,;;;; »Vith iron tou.'h ■ -nul <' . . ""'<"' I'll' to ,sust. m, n""t. 01 Men bri<>^ If m,! I. 1 her ..au«h I first the licrk icno. o nnaifinin. Thee ri;r ;,"^'"'"P*-i"" jhepjkepurs.andcek.hc,,. .'d.., J lie siDvkr with .1 I ' ' drod^ , Bnej.n, biennin-with tlic l.l.i .* 'I'ho tr The no'the inordi ' t''e l.i.-.kc .suiokc '"- '" the bedd> The .sle: ^"osiecivofhi ill" heite-blood inu wa,M that dde ;nmn.elf>.t >uu.h I ••^"i}- jilac ''h. h.ith b.ahed al li tlier. »';>'IV driven in the ..h,,de iM. ,'■ .' "'iven in ihoeolded-itli. witi, li mouth ir.ipi Cii lis li,.,.,. ii-ni''lit • AU l""g»p right. ■'J19«7(1109)^2008 (1150), 19«9.rede...^.j.,-„, , , ^«W.Text.) 2n.!v, ;«.,-.i;; j4J;''?'''-ede. irmrf,/,, J37J . *V i!^ b'„r„„, ; ^'''r^"' ^""•«', w iJ?, t"""*'"'^'/ /iS.ij .' ^^^^^'^(^iiniishcj iQfti 1 ' ^"^'. beote, «/•«*.« .A'-'-o' Wo«/ , vcse, ,-«*/, ifjfifi , , • ^V ' **" "^' "'''•'•on- ■ lOSfi 1 •'^ ' '• o(, snoon, «AoM*' , iggj f>veifliwftrt, ,/,/VM, oiideloriiT. lfHQthin\. looi », ..„ II ruth ■ loa-. 1 . yiftiiii iKi . ijiifj toiinc'srcat ai-mt nm -;i^t,,ir; ::;;;;.:''' i^'':;;t'^ "v--"^. /'/'>"4 • ;;^ ;^ ^b,Hko. ,1...., 2002. b^biJddif!::;; J'^-^'^:.;, '•:;;;;;^;"g j^- XL VI. With different figures all ,he m.I.-h won- spread ; ring teuiple, lew ,n for,,., with a.ual .-race W..i iniitatire of tho Aim i.. 'J'hrace ; " ' 1< or that cold reRion wm the love.J abode And sovereign mansion of tlie warrior -'od i he landscape was a forcHt wid« and bare ' Where neither beast nor l.uumn kind repair, i he fowl that - -it afar the borders fly ' And shun tho bitter bla» Soft smiling and demurcljr looking down Out hid the dagger underneath the gown The assassmatinrr wife, the household fiend : And far the blackest there, the traitor-friend. 0.1 the other side there stood De -iction bare, Unpunished Rapine, nnd a waste ' var • Contest with sharpened knives in oistc^^ drawn, And all with blood bespread the holy L.wn L,oud menaces were heard, and foul disgiaci- And bawling infamy, in language bii.se ] Till sense was lost in sound, and silence fled the plae. The .layer ol himself yet saw I there, ^ i he gore congealed was clottered in his hair • V\ irh eyes half closed and gaping mouth he lay And grim as when he breathed his sullen soul away DRYmy.—Palamou and Arritr.. Book Fl I lies 524 57!)' XLVII. Till: COMPLKIXT OK CHAUCER TO U,s KMPTv ..rK.SK, ht Jo you, my purse, and to non other wi-h < ompleyno I, for ye be my lady dere •" 1 am so sory, now that ye be light ; 1' or certes, but yo make me hevy cheie Me were as leef be le>d up-on my beio • iJeth hevy ageyn, or elles mot T dye ! Now vouceth saul'this day, or hit bo niul.t, 1 hat I ot you the blisful soun may h< re Or see your colour lyk the sonne bVight, ' 1 hat ot yelownessc l.adde never peiv \o be my lyf, ye be myn hertes store, guene of comfort and of good companye : «eth hevy ageyn, or elles mot T dye ! Now purs, that be to me inv lyves Ii-bt And saveour, as doun in th'is worlde"hok>, Out of this toune heln me through your might, .^in that ye wcle nat bom my tresorere tor 1 am shave as nyo as any frerc But yit I pray un-to your curtesye -beth hevy ageyn, or elles mot I dye ! LKNyOY DE CIIAUCKR, ',i c?nquerour of Brutes Albioun ! Which that by lyne and free eleccioun JJen verray king, this song to you I sonde • And ye, that mowen al oar harm amende, ilave minde upon my supplioaoioun I (Skeat's text.) (Four days after the accession of Hem v of Lancaster to the throne las Henry IV. [Sept. ."JO, 1399J, Cliaucer's'ixTiod of distress came to an end. The poet did not hni' enjoy his better toiiuuc. lie died on I Oct. 25, 1400.) XI. VII T. The Teneide of Boccaccio, :iu tpic poem in Italian, aftbrded Chaucer matter not only for The Parleimnt of FouIck, whieii coutiins sixteen 1 ftanzas directly taken from it, but also for the Kitightfn Tnh.. the first oftheCaiiterbury Tales, which is really derived from it. Tlieie are I other traces of the influence of the Tisi ii/r on Chancer. Boccaccio, Tcseidc. lii'i 1 J And near to the entry of the temple She saw that there sat quietly My lady Peace, who a curtain Moved lightly belore the door. Next her, very subdued in aspect, Sat Patience discreetly, Pallid in look ; and ou all sides Around her she .saw artful Promises. Then entering the temple, of Sighs She felt there an earthquake, which whirled All fiery with hot desires. This lit up )dl the altars With new flames born of pangs ; Each of which dripped with tears Produced by a woman cruel and fell Whom she there saw, called Jealousy. Chauoer — The Parleimnt of Foules Before the temple done ful soberly Dame Pecs sat, with a curtcyn in hir hond ; And hir besyde, wonder disoretly, Oame Pacience sitting ther I fond With face pale, upon an hillc of sond ; And alder-next, within and eek with-oute. Behest and A:\ and of hir folke a route. Within the temple, of syghes hote as fyr I herde a swc^h (murmur) that ganaboute renne ; Which sygheit were engcndred with desyr, That maden every auter for to brenne Of newe flaume ; and well aspyed I thenne That ai the eause of sorwes that they drye (suffer) Com of the bitter goddeaae lalousye. m \y\t ft XLIX t/ I I ll.e following extract Ironi Prof. Skenfs edition of the Minor o.-ms of Chaucer will serve to show the indebte-lness of Chaucer to D.uite, 80 far as the Bous „f Fan,, is concerned. It will also servJ j.s .specimen of modern criticism, which is beini: applied, particuUrlv .y the Gerinans, to the poets of the Cnaucerian school with rcfer«n«' Id rhaucer himself ''It is needless to say that this poem is g.-nuine, .-.s Chaucer him- self claims It twice oyer : once in his Prologue to the Legend of Good '"oen (1. 417) and again by the insertion in the poom itself of the nan e G,ffrc,, (1. 729). The influence of Dante is here very marked hence Lydg^te refers to it by the name of «' Dante .n English." Thi« influence .s thoroughly disc..ssed by il.mbe.m in Englische Studien, i». 209 m an nrtic e which is far too important to be neglected. I can only say here tlmt the author points ..ut both general and parti- tu .r likcDe^ses between the two poems. In general, both are visions : l>oih are in three books : u. both the a.ithors seek abstraction fro... surrounding troubles by venturing into the realm of inia-zination ; as Danteisle. byV.rgil so Ch.ucer is upborne by the e.gle. Dante b.-g.ns his third book, II Paradi.o. with un invocation to ApoUo and Chaucer hkewise begins his third book with the same ; moreover ( JiMUcer s invocation is little more th.n a translation of Dant -'s Among the part.cuh.r resemblances, we may notice the method of .•o.nmcncing each division of ,he poem with an invocation. Again both poets mark th. exact da'e of c.rnmmeing their poems: Dante descended into the Inferno on (iood Friday 1300 (Inf. xxi 112) • p':;;:%'a!'" ""' "" '" ^''^ "•' ''"^"'^^- ^'^ y^"' '^^'^s- •■ Chaucer sees the desert of I.ibya (\. 4S8), corresponding to similar «aM..spaecsnientionedby Dan.c. Chaucer's cavdc is Dante's eagle ( hauce.- gives an account of Phaeton (I. 042) and of Icarus (1 920) ii...ch like those given by Dante (Inf. xvii. 107, 109); both account., how. yer n,ay have beeu taken from Ovid. Chaucer's account of th cad..s lecture to h.m (1. 729) is copied from Parad. i. 109-117. Prr'nlPr^'i/^r ^'- ^^^^^ corresponds to Danto's steep rock iuij,. 1.1 4,) If Chaucer cannot describe all the b.^auty of the on.seo Laino (1. 1168), Danto is equally unable to describe Paradise (1 ar. .. ,). Chaucer copies irom Dante his descriptio.. of Statius, and lu^k^ws Ins n„.take in saying that he was born at Touloiue. ' (.btalins he poet, was born at Naples.) "The description of the House otKumonr is also imitated fron. Dante. Chaucer's error of making Marsy ' ■ _ - . form Maisia." {. niaie arose from his not understanding the Itaitaa * 4 i ■iwk L. 1 irijlii miitlnr. (liiuijhtiu' of thji Sou, humble (LcMlovieo Ariost<))_.()rliin,l„ FurioM,, ^F.rn,r,f iiorniird.. TasH, (fatlKToCTonjuuto T ,-o).- /■:,■,,>>■<,. Art. nrin? """"'''"'' ^'"' '''-''^■•^'' '"^I'-'fntr, UKtkiu,' cUr the attractive- Michael Angelo (Michael An-do Buon.-.rolti)— Florence — 7,'ome Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio,.-Floreuco.-AW.. ' Uhtorif anil Politics. 1513-152/^''''''"'"' ^"''^^^^''^'••"^■'■""J '^"» of Lorenzo the Magnificent) Emperor Charles V (ISSU— abdicated, 15r)t;) Machiavelh (NicoloMacliiavelii).— FA-mar Luther (Diet of Worms, 1521). Erasmus (d. Jksel, 153G). POST-ItKNAISSANCK. Torquato Tasso— Gerusalcmnio Liber.ita.— /;,>v/w Guarini (Giovanni Battista Guarini) Jl Pastor Fido!— /^eyram In the Amn,ta of Torquato Tas.o and the Pastor Fido of (luarini Italian pas'tora. presents its complete development. LIIL The father of iialomon's House gives an outline of its varioua depart- ments, and mdicates the duties assigned to the workers connected iii'Yf '"*^'^al«« perspective-houses, where we make demonstrations of all lights and radiations ; and of all colours ; and out of things uncoloured and transparent, we can rtprescut unto you all several colours : not in ram-bows, as it is m gems and prisms, but of themselves sincle. We represent also all multiplications of light, which w carry to great distance, and make so sharp as to discern smaU point, and lines also all colourations of light ; all delusions and deceits of t'le si-ht in figures magnitudes, motionf colours ; all demonstrations of shadows We find also divers means, yet unknown to you, of producing of light oridnaliv trom divers bodies. We procure means of seeing objects afar oft • as in the heaven and remote places ;and represent things near as afar off and things afar off as near ; making feigned distances. We have also helps tor the sight, far above spectacles and glasses- in use. Wc have also glasses and means to see small and minute hndic« perfectly and dis- femctly...We make artificial rain-bows, halos, and circles about light. We represent al^o all manner of reflexions, refractions, and multiplica- tions 01 visual beams of objects. "We have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate aU sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-Kounds, and lesser slides of sound.><. Divers instruments of music likowiHC to yoii unknown, some swcetor than any you have : together with bells and rin^s tliat are d:iinty and sweet. We represent small sounds :is grout and di-i'p; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp ; we make divers tri'mbliii^is and warblings of sounds, which in their original uri' entire. \Vc represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of boasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do furtlier the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it : and some that give back the voice louder than it came ; some shriller, and some deeper ; yea, some render- ing the voice, diflFering in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to con v sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange linei* and distances. " We have also engine-house.^, where are prepared engines and in- struments for all sorts of motions. There we imitate and practise to make swifter motions titan any you have, either out of your muskets or any engine that you have ; and to make them and multiply them more easily, apd with small force, by wheels and other means : and to make them stronger, and more violent thm yours are: exceeding your greatest cannons and basilisks. We represent also ordnance and instruments of war, and engines of all kinds : and likewise new mixtures and com- positions of gun-powder, wildfires burning in wuter, and unquenobable. Also fireworks of all variety, both for pleasure and use. We imitate also flights of birds ; we have .«ome degrees of flying in the air; we have ships and boats for going under water, and brooking of seas ; also swimming-girdles and supporters. We have divers curious clocks, and other like motions of return, and some perpetual motions. We imitate also motions of living creatures, by images of men, beasts, birds, fishes and serpents. Wc have also a great number of other various motions, strange lor equality, fineness and subtilty "J or the several employments and offices of our fellows; we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations, (for our own we conceal ;) who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call Merchants of Light. '' We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books. These we call Depredators. " We have three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts ; and also of liberal sciences ; and also of practices which arc not broaght into arts. These we call Mystery-men. " We have three that try new experiments, such as themselves think good. These we call Pioners or Mmers. " We have three that draw the experiments of the former four into titles and tables, to give the better light for the drawing of ohservations and axioms oat of them. These wc call Compilers. "We have three that bend themselves, looking into the experiments of their fellows, and cast about how to draw out of them things otxiai and practice for man's life, and knowledge as well for works as for plsia demonstration of causes, means of natural divinations, a&d the easy and I i iMi Jkil, I, ■•] Mil oloar discoverj of the virtues and parts of bodie. T«,«« pene;rat.„, into „at„rc ,ha„ ,1... foj.nor Th Jo we c'i a mt ' ""^ " We have t hnv others th it do ,>x.;.„t A. "^^^ c.iil JiOtiips. and report thou.. Thes^ ^^ c:,;^;.:.;;:,.:!:^' ^^'^^ "« ^ '^--ted, your xnonlc that was r;lt;^'' ,■ ) r:.;.:';:,! llr'"""'"^''^'''^ ^ inventor of music: the inventor of It -rl "^ -.'unpowder : the inventor of observations of ,1 .vH ' ""'''"'".'' "^ P""'"'S • '^e the inventor ofJl.tL„t:,3^i^^ I".""""" "^ '""'^' '" •"«^' = wine: the i.ivcntor of c n^„TlTead I /^^^^^^ r'%'- ""^ "''^'•^•- «^ these by moreeertain tradition h nyou .v " '' "^ •''""''™ = *"^ "" Bacon.— iVw Aflaut!^. Vol. Ill, p. 161.) (Kpeddinjif, LIV order to give new vi.^^^r o tl is Tl. , '7 t";°,"'" ''^ ^^"'^ «f- I" bad been indcbtod lo tl,o Luniv nf .u f^ V ? J"'"^ "°»' *"'* 8oiMCT at the SSvTf pT' , *? "i"''' ' """'id'^blo pro- a Vi6it at Knmc. On his way he re-ived •. Lrfp, f J"^ ^™ di.U„gai,W. After delifc" '„ wiS ^ 17 ™ T' ^ """"""^ Leo formed the design of inviting n number of .young and noblo Qreeka to quit their country and take up their re!>idonce under his prot(>otion at Kome ; where, by tlie direction of Liiscaris, they were not only to proHt'cutc the study uf tlicir nutivc tongue, but to be instructed also in Latin literature. On the recomiiicnd;itinii of Lattcuris, the pontiff also addressed liiinsolf on this occasion to Mnrcus Musurus, out of the ilisciplcs of Laiicaris, who, artcr liavin^r taught in the university of i'adiia, had chosen his resilience at Venice. The letter written by Loo od education nnd virtuous disposition, who may compose a feminiiry of liberiil studies, and from whom the Italians ni.iy derive the proper use and knowledge of the (i reck tongue. On this subject you will be more fully instructed by Giovanni L iscaris, whose virtues jmd learning have deservedly rendered him dear to me. I have :i confidence, also, that from the respect and kindness which you hiive already shown me. you will apply with the utmost diligence to effect wliat may seem to you to be necessary for accomplishing the purposes which I have in view. — Dated, viii. Id. Aug. 1513. For the accou)modc. ,, London in J),<-,.tiilH.r Uq- i.- Tliom^sMor., ilr>„ , U, «• Moun joy had -troducd hin to nogr»a.n.a. .^ dl. = "^t^vi I" ■••::''"r''^ "'" ^'^"^ "' ^-''^' «nd obl«,,rv rron: |.^f.,,hio^ ? . '<:'*<''. ""' ",uch oppoHui,-, friead .ij, i'. .,,. :^^''^''^^^. J'' -* ""trodTod \n. them. Obv;„u«]y .N.-VMrnrr?^' . IT-'''^,' -n fkn l;y . monij the country bcuut,f„j th h«m ^'rr"'^"'"">^'""«- Hefound M, and tli society .he l-;'":^,;;;;;i'S^,l' ""^ ""^■-'"-) ^«Ji»''t- " Tl)e air (lie vvritisi i« w/n i-j.i- jielli«en.. Many of tl.e.V^re" 1 , ." J^.H Z ' '"^"■' .'-.r"'"*''' ""'' -" Italy. When^let ,.m-.4k^ I n.i.'l t h.. '"' '""' ""''' '" "^^i Koing fT. deep and acutrathink/rnJlf'i ''^'^"'"K. '<> I'latn, Li„. ,e if that of Tho.na, More. The m., U ot vo^.„' ' ' '«PP'erdi8no.,t.on tUo literature hero is a«tuni.l.,ng!- """*^ " ' ' '^ '' '"« "t'^ing ancient "J "" J^eiii ,,f hiasiinis. Lect. IJI. _ Erasmus visited Enda,,,! [-^ .■ ,. « ^ . . inv.t;.tiunofLordMo;„,j.,v.'« er^!f; ^,' "« t-^^t vsit, m»de oo , »t the University of Paris m- i ' ? ^'^^ " P"P" "' -■^'"^ it was one of which Er™sri.u" '"""'" ''^"^ '' " 0»»-- Cambridge whereho h . ^^'^ " "■"'° '«""«• H« «P d.8appo.nting to him throuj^hout Henr VuflrlT" " England, but in vain Ho Im,..,.,! t. i o ^"^J" ^'" Bon,eand all its charms a! Sn^l ^T'V ' ^''^" centre of the world. ZH^oT^;, ^'jf/« -P«"*- , libranes. In R,.„,c one meets and eonvlr^c. t^:Z of i "" Borne are the mapnidcent mouuraeuts of Lm/ ."'" ''^''"' '« if, and •net' " • e b«" bin . hink oi nie is the pltndtd la LVI Tho folloniD^ (txtrkut given an idci ^i one iiU{)ortaQt < -Atnre of later The Hinhon nrd< r.i his Ti>ti,ij nt Snint Praxeif* Church, ,\i f<' itiout tliiN f/>nih of It in'*. 1 f'ousht With UHith ani nm, ssv my 'lichf ye know: —Old (J H" ilf C( I ' m«>. despite my care; Hhrewil ' *8 ttu< «' ii fioiu fiut the i orner South He gract t !m» carrion w th, G id curs< ihc same I Y< * »iill r y niche i not -o cr 'mf)eil ' t thonc<' ( ■»(! sw I K' pn ; it tl vpistle-»iilf. \ncl somewhat '>f ti e ehi-ir tho«»' ^ilent acnw, An ip inf aei v . in wb '!'' •ngelf' a 8Ui - -am sur At, 1 JiUuii Hii y HI '' sail V .11 '^ I! .VlHi With The . P aoi colu icath 0)' 1080 niii 1 one iit ti V ..■)S.-oii! mnfi \^ frt'Si pOUl(odii H And Some )in> Bigi^ Blue ^s '1 Wlii> his lo'l- how wK iurk : •i. -0, •■*k est, two no' two, a sta « ri .ty pu ly uiiion 8ton> him ! True pe ch, earoi d the priz< conflagration of my church much wag snved if au;;ht were missed ' vouiJ not be my deuth ? Go dig ;i.= >o vineyard where the oil-press stood, itly till the nuriace tiink -Ah God, I know not, 1 ! — of otten fii;leave8 soft, -J. in isiht olive-frail, ah Gro. <»f lapin lazuli, v's hea< out oflF at the nape, vein oV ; the Madonna's breast — hav"' bec^ucathed you, villas, all. '^'^ns, all 1 aat bi e Fra.>H;ati villa with its bath, 0, let tiie blue iump poise between my knees, ike God the Father's globe on both his hands Yt vor.'ihii in the Jesu Church so ,11^ Fo andolf shall not choose but see and burst ! ■""w as caver's shuttle fleet our years : Ma u< .0 the grave, and where is he ? Diu - basalt for s>y slab, sons ? Black — Twas cvt r antique-black I mcHnt ! How else Shall ye contrast my frieze to come beneath ? The bas-relief in bronse ye promi.%d me, Those Pans and Nymphs ye wot of, and perobanee Some tripod, thyrsus, with a vase or so, The Saviour at hm .sermon on the mount, Saint Praxed in a glory, an.^. one Pan ' Ready to twitch the Nymph's last -arment off And Moses with the tablcL-but 1 k, ow ' SilTnr "\°"' '. ^^^"' ^' *''«^ ^''i«PeT thee Ch.ld my bowels, Ansel,,. ? Ah ve hone ' To revel down my villas while I ^J" '''^ Wl inh O ^"Af: ^^"'''' "'°»''>y travertine Which Gandolf from h,s tomb-top chuckle^ at ' Nay, boys, ye love me-all ofja4r then I " Tis jasper ye stand pledged tj ifft i ' Jo e My bath must needs be left beh:„d, a las' 1 here 8 plenty jasper s..„.cwhere in the world And have I not Saint Prax.-d's ear t^ um Horses for ye, a.ul brown Greek mLtSripts No gaudy wakfhk\^1,SS:,^^^^^^^ TuUy, my masters ■< Ulpian .eives his need. Jivbert Browning.' LVII. In the latter end ofthnsunA i-: . upanewcompanyofL'Xr.kes^o/:f ^S'""^ ^"^^ «Pr«ng elder and Henry, Earl of Sur^cv JL f. T ^['. ^'"'"'^'^ ^V* 'he travelled in Itaf; and there ta«2dth° ^^^V^'^^ft'-ins, who having style of the It^li;,, Poosie as novio! T ""'^ ^'^^'^^^ "'•a^"'™ and Dante Ariosto and Pe r^^ch tl ev ^"^^^ "^^^^^ homely manner of vulgar p^ct fZ r;'''\ Pf'i^''*^*^ «" '"d" a^d that cause n,ay justly ^e sS Uie Tt ^^^ " ^'''^ ^^" ^^ft''-^. «">-» LniL Aa extract from Asclmm'B cr ; t Jfg^ding Italy, whicf t'7e elot'f rw^'/ '•T'''.^ '''« T"<» Pununiea literature of Elizabeth's rei^n AnTn^'" *^ ^"»«^ *«« If you think we Judge am., an/^rite ^^2^^'^tr what the Italian saith of the Eoglish Man, what the master reporteth of the scholar : who nttereth plainly what is taught by him. and what learned by you, snying, Englese Italianato e un diabolo incamato, that is to say, you remain men in ^hape and fashion, but become devils in life and condition . . . . If some yet do not well understand what is an English man Italianated, I will plninly tell him. He, that by living and travelling in Italy, bringeth home into England out of Italy the religion, the learning, the policy, the experience, the manners of Italy. . . , These >>" the enchantments of Circe, brought out of Italy, to mar men's mai.iiers in England ; much, by example of ill life, but more by p.tjcepts of fond (fooUth) books, of late translated out of Italian into English, sold in every shop in London, commended by honest titles the sooner to corrupt honest mnnners ; dedicated over boldly to virtuous and honourable personages, the easier to beguile simple and innocent wits (minds) Ten sermons at Paul's Cross do not so much good for moving men to true doctrine, as one of those books do harm, with inciting men to ill living. LIX. / Yet was not Knowledge fullie confirmed in hir Monarchic amongst Ts, till that most famous and fortunate Nurse of all learning. Saint lohnt in Cambridge, that at that time was as an Yniuerstic within it selfc ; shining ) farre aboue all other Houses Halls and Hospitalls whatsoener, thai no Colledge in the Towne, was able to compare with the ty the of her Students; h.aing (as I baue hearde graue men of credit report) more candles light in it, euerie Winter Morning before fowreof the olocke, than the fowre of clucke b^ll gaue strokes; till Shee (I swc) as a pittying Mother, put too her helping hande, and sent from her fruitfull wombe, sufficient Schollers, both to support her owne weale, as also to supplie aU other inferiour foundations defects, and namelie that royall erection of Trinitie Colledge, which the Vniversitie Orator, in an Epistle to the Duke of Somertet, aptlie tearnied Colonia diducta from the Suburbes of Saint Johns. (From •n address To the Oenileman Students, prefixed to R, Greene's Menaphon, 1589. St. John's College, Cambridee. was founded in 1611.) Thy age, like ours, soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than tnad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek. (From Milton's sonnet entitled On the detraction which JoUowed •pon my writing certain Treatises). ! li a. '■ ■iMifi ^..aa^.- li' ■^!'l If : LX. A Sonnet on the Sonnet »ith It Cam,«n» «,othcd an exile's .-ricf ' H.» »..,ona,], brow ; , jlo.-worm lamp ^he S'tnnet'n voice. (A metrical le.son by the sea-shore) A sonnet is a wave of melody ' ^^^- f lows ,n the " octave" ; then, retumL free It-s ebbing surge.. i„ the " sestet " roll^ ' B.ck to the deeps of Life>« tumultuous .sea. '^bba abba odd cdc [Italian tWm]. ^"^" ^""'• LXI. and Sonettes, rorittlk i,/ £n/i/ * "'" ?? "'° <'«"«'tion is ^«,^^ tion of a final . ^ould prc^ntlu oidestl^h 1 T '" P^^^^ = ^''^ '^^'^■ oher^ common iu fiLbethan llt'e A"//^''"''^-. ^he plural kvelhng." " literature , the form othen is due to A Myrrour for Magistrates. 1559 The Pa.ad,8c> of Dainty Devisc-s^' igTtf. i A Gorgious Gallery of Gallan^Inventions. 1578. A Handefull of Pleasant Delitcs. 1584 The PhoDnix Nest. 1593. Enplands Helicon. IfiOO. A Poetical Rapsod)-. IGO-'. (The dates arc those of first Klitious.) LXII. Construction op the Sonnet.^ I. PetrarchaD form. (1) abba abba cde ode (3 rimes in Sestette). (2-' abba abba cdc dcd (2 rimes in Sestette). (3^ abba abba cde dec (3 rimes in Sestette). 123 Sonnets. 112 out of 124. 28 Sonnets. ■"T Wyat translated 13 Surrey translated English Literature. Wyat— prevailing ibrm :— abba abba edde ee. of Petrarch's sonnets. Surrey— prevailing form :— abab edcd cfef g two of Petrarch's sonnets. Sidney— prevailing form :— abba abba cdcd ee. — - -_ Spenser— prevailing form .—abab bcbc cdcd ee. ' Sliaksperc— prevailing form :— abab cdcd efef gg.' d Diummond of Ilawthorudcn— prevailing form :— abbu abba cdcd ee Milton (English Sonnets)— abba abba (invariable); cdcdcd— pre- vailing form of Sestette. • Wordsworth— prevailing form :_abba abba | about equal : Sestette, abba acca j very numerous forma. LXIII. Madrigal, w The word madrigal is derived from the Italian madrujale, a kind of short song or ditty ; madrigale, in its turn, stands for mandrigale a shepherd's song, and this is derived from the Latin mandra, £ stall or stable. Madrigals vary in length, and may consist of five lines only. An examination of the lines shows that they have, as a rule three and five accents and that their order varies. The following is a twelve- hned madrigal from VVilliasL Drummo nd^of H awthornden : — When V.3 she smiles, I find More light before mine eyes, Than when the sun from Indc Brings to our world a flowery paradise : But when she gently weeps ind pours forth ptsarly showers. On cheeks fair blushing flowers, A sweet melancholy my senses keeps, Both iised so my diiei>Be, 4io mqeh boUi do me please, That oft I doubt, which more my heart doth burn Loyt to behold her mule, or pitj mourc ; I i me a kingdom it."). Folke GrevJUc, Lord Brooke. Biiali$h &>enterian» (indirect and numerous'' William Browne. Britannia's Pattorals. Phineas Fletcher. Purple Island. Giles Fletolier. Chrutl Victorie and Triumph. Seoteh Spenteriana (indireot). William Drummond of Hawthoniden. 4 LXV. The Miscoll.iny published by Richard Tottel in IfiRT ;• n spoktm of a. the first miscellany of Enivp!^ Za^ \8«°«'-a ly n the main t. no « head. Beside he^twoyo^uhs with fl.X^™^^^^ and a snood on her either side, with alterSLTch b"^ are contending from his cast, as one that kbourrstoutlv Tho.^r lA''''' V^'"^"' °«' ''«'' iog with all the mighttf i:riitsobigX:?;'srwVi^^ 'r.^^ neck, gray.haired thou-h he is but hi« »fr„n ^j " u " *^"' •»" youth.^ Now divided but a iie space from So si' "' **•' f?'°8th of vineyard laden well with fire-red eCrs!^i «ea-worn old man is a lad watches the vineVard skZt tW ' p *^ "!;' /^° '"""S'^ ^*" » '«*!« skulking, and onTgri^Tthf vrn:row^rl^^^^^^ ""^ than delight in his plaiting ' """P'"*' '"^' """^ °* ^'^ ^'''«', 'AH about the cup is spread the soft acanthus n mVa-i e ■ i work, a thing i , thee to marvel on. "'-''"""'■"' " ^'ra*^!^- «f -med Theocritus.- rm««. Andrew Laug. (Id. 1., II. 27-66.) ADQDST. -%Ioi:a Octava, Argument. ZZ^f':, ''T' •■ r''"''"! "''' y''Vilr/...hioned hi, third Zl yy''^"'- J^"'l '^'""" J'"- "'"/'f'-^' «/ thdr Hrift, Caddie sct/e a j>rop,r song, ,choro/ Coli,,, hi myth, ,ra» A uthour. Willie. Then loe, Perigot, the Plod-o which I plijrht, A tuazer {howl) ywrouoht of t'.i.. Maple ttarro. (imre) Wherein is enchased many a fayre sight Of Beres and Tyores, that njaken fiers warre : And over them spread a -oodly wild vine, *.n trailed with a Wiinton Yvio twine. Thereby is a Lamhe in the Wolves jawe:. : iJut, see, how fast renneth the shepheard swayne 10 save the innocent from the heastes pawcs And here with his .shepe-hooke hath hi .. sl.yne. iell me, such a cuj) hast thou ever .-^ene ? Well monght it beseme any harvest Qucene. (As will be seen from the Anjument, the Au-'us/yESoKue^^bllones to thfl singing-match variety.) ^'ogue oeiongs M\. The Dirge. {Two extract* from the lament of Moschus for Bion.) Wail, let lae hear you wall, ye woodland glades, and thou Dorian water ; and weep ye river,,, for Kion, the wellbeloved ! Now all ye aJiSS thtngs mourn and now ye groves lament him, ye flowe« now in «d clusters breathe yoursevc. away. Now redden ye roses in youTs^rr^w and now wax red ye wind flowers, naw thou hyacinth whiter tTrTel' reZu'i^X?'' ^"' ''' ' ''''-' ^' "' '' '^y^^^^^^''^^, Btgin, ye Sicilian Muses, begin the dirge ST he^diL i ^ ^^i'''"'", T'"" ^^ ^'•*^**'°«'' '^' t'dines that Bioo ;Sifrat£SeKn^"mttL^^^^^ "'^" ^^^ ^ ^ ^^'^ «^ Begin, ye Sicilian A/uses, begin 'the dirge. Ah tne, when the mallows wiihe'rVn the^rdVii"aud Ihc'gr^n m«w' and the curled tendrils of the anise, on a later day they lfvX£ S spring ID another year, but we men, we, the great and mght^or;!- when once we have died, in hollo'w ^nh %e sleep' ^ d^nlS muM I MJ 'W •ilenoe ; ■ right Iodk, and endlasa, and unavakonioff alMn a „ i .l J<^'», J/e Sicilum Muie$, he A\ ^'-.v i • j ■ ; It floureth fresh, as it should never fayleT''^ '""''''''"'' Hut thing on e.rth that is of most availe As yertuesbraunchand beauties budde Kehven {revive) not for any -ood. O heiivie herse ' LXVII. The nliKious coDtroversio, -i Sponser'8 day form the Kroundwork of the May .nd July «k ,,ue.. It h hco that the po.T exhibit, the s.tmc vein to wi..ch aliu.ion ha. „ln ady ban luado. Ah the attitude " ^^^'"^'^'«J\J''d"'»"dtir.n.kl was commented on in th. Iccturen, ,Le ^.ud..n. had better read the J uly re^logae, which opens wnha refer.noe "; '^'^7;;'"; "'^".V'i/.lK'.'i. The April a^glo^Mtc containH atypical p eco-Me l.ff .„ /,,.,.„. 0/ Ehni,:tU-^ once Hn.,K,th, melodious and ..V n^ pronw... of lolty Muvnt.on. I„ the June aj.-log.Ie will be found t KV .TTr "/^r"^ .^uh-btedness to ( •l.aueer ( 7VVyr««). \u Mer IMberd. h,/., „ot.ee the appe.-r.n.ce of the Inilit ry un,.,.tor-a stock ol.nructer in l-iizabethan Hu-rature-aH one who IX>th turue the tiame of Souldiers to abusioir And that, whieh i> the n..bK-.i n.ysterie. a"-'"/'»»!oH) nriii-fH to repioaeh and coujuinn iiifainif ' Spender's de«,ripti.m of lifo at court shouM be read and the Dortion that toue e. on the eo.d.u..u of the baffled «..itor p,.r.1 ular^ Ztd (■' Full httle knotceal thou, that hunt not tritU ") Colia CloHtH Come Horn, Again— » pa«to.,,l. Thin piece is note worthy because of .t. bio,rapi,ieal value, Ld al.o bee le reflccL the murntm. lu.pu.e of .Spcnse.'. age. Kven Th. Faerie QulZt thl KirtS'.) ""' "'""• ^'^-'^ ^''^' '"-^^ ^'""^^ °' "- '-'Canto o{ RalegK, Visit to Spenter (Colin Clout) at Kilcolman ^1589). " Vt"®,*^°- (*!""''' '"') ' •■"** '•'*« "='« '"/ trade) Under the foote of Mole, that mountaine hore Keeping my sheepe amongt^t the cooly shade Of the grcene alders by the Mullaes i-Iiore • Ihere a straunge shepheard olmunBt to find iLr out Whether allured with ujy pipes delight, ' Whose pleasing sound yshrilled far about', Or thither led by cliaunce, I kn w notVisht • Whoia when I a.ked from what piaco he came' And how he hight, him.s.fe he did ycleepe [call] I he Shepheard of the Uc. u. by name, And said he came far from the main-sea dcepe He, sitting nie beside in that same shade Provoked me to plaie some pleasant fit • imnq] And, when he heard the musicko which I niaie He lounde himselle full greatly pleased at it' Yet aemuiing my pipe, he tooke in hood My pipe, before that temuled of many And plaid thereon ; (for well that skiU he cond •) llimselte as skilfuil in that art as any. He pip'd, I sung ; aud, when he sung, 1 piped : By ohaoDge of turnes, each making other mery ■ ^^ iN either envying other, nor envied, ' So piped we, until we both were weary." -. ^ II 5 ^1 !! i •''■.V P-rt olih^ ro^touLcJ^ co„«.cul.vo .Un,M tak.n from HHUic- t.i,u., it „. n.a„d« a ^^ J,. ,'* ' '"" ,*^".V ^ ""^ own. Xt the i/'/».«.. wu m:.M.,. r^^^fi;,;. tt/if '''"'?. ^->'/^ and th. nn. n. «.s ot i>i>vmvt'H diKinctiv. qualitjr. Lxv/ir. iru//«- Jiiniihi Of il,t m:,i,ii. r , i • -lightly.] '*^' '""^ "io.l. ruizcd ..,d language «l«,, but only JAem worn ol thinL's whi.h K, » T P'''S*^"' B'lt wh«t lor that ? th^r .• ■ ■ ''*-'*<'''a''ce, dpwrvcd : T.. .scorne the rc... and seek to pl.a^c^i" wT^ iiut c.nvi.,u.s brains Tlo^^.^^Jt ^"'th*?) S„r ' Sue ^ftely step, as th.'.y eannottt^i , '"' l-or whoHo re.ps renown ak.ve the rest W.thhe.,..< , at. shall surely be op,,;.,..s8cd. ^i^SsJa^ ^' s; 7 "'""'^ ^^''"^") «f ^l*- book : Abuses :dlt^ 1 ^^^' ""P^'^'aJly doth «low ADuses all, to such a,-, m it look its a.e that it becomes u valuabt rv.. ^^T\ '^*' ^*™"« *"«*t'"-<^« "^ poetry, whe.c.s in Spen>..r we '.»lutV ".' *''*"' -'' '" »«*'« without tempts cluster, round ( fasooiKoe'?,!! Tt ''•^"'■'•.i'»We set of Bret at- y>ro« co.nedy ^«;,;,^,,, ih^TlrCT.', V *™*?/»'t .fi""" English m 15ti«; the fii^V regular !^,Vr^rLv/;"^r'*^ which was acted tion of a Greek tragedy Je.^'7« nt !f ?/"' ' ^« *"* ^»n»l*- but indirectly, thrcSgh a tTvfol^ l!'^- *''" ^^'"'^ «^ ^''"F'i^. haiardous to icnbe to hfrn*^ as Z^f'Z '^'"*"'>- ^' ^ P«»-«'*pi first critical eway. ' "**"•* ''**' "' '''« P'«e tale ard tC Balev-h-i pow«r en be aeen in the WHiaet prefixed to the fir.t edition f tlu F»eri6 Qaeeui . (Bk«. Mil, 1590.) Melhou^ht I saw th»« grave where Uura lay, Within that teniplu where tho yt.iul flame Was wont to bum ; and, pnBsini; by thnt way To Me fh.jt buriod dui of living' flame, Who»e tomb fair love und fnirer virtue kept All suddenly I mw the Faery (iuceno ' At whoM approach the soul of Petrarch wept ; And from thenceforth those graces were not seen !< or they this queen attended ; in whose »tecd [»ffmh Oblivion laid ' ini down on Laura's henrw. iioreat the hardv „ stones were seen to bleed And CToans of buried ghoeti the heavens did perse [merce] Where Homer's sprite did tremble all Jbr grief And curse th' access of that celestial thief. Ralegh can let his vein of delicate fancy Bii{H.ar in convenUonal n.ode, as wunesa h« rephr to CI. ri«oph or Marlowe's little ^JsSrl entitle', The Pauwnatt Shepherd to his love. Marlowe bccins 5^?h foll^JJ^l ^''""' '"•' "''^ "« '^"•^ ^ -y 1°- " ; HaJegh anTerTi. Tht Nymph'a Repli/. If all the work «nd love And truth in every sliep These pretty pleasures . To 11- with thee and Wvie youiig, . rd's loiij^e, „h" !«i? luove 10 fold, cold; But Time drives flocks j'j. . TV hen rivirs rage and rocks ■■ And Phiiumel beoometh dumb, The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton firlds To wayward wint. r reckoning j' I'i • A hooey tongue— a heart of j;ai. Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's tail. Thy gowns, thy si.oea. thy beds of roses. Thy cap, tliy kirtle, and thy noaifts Soon break, soon witlier, soon forgotten In fdly ripe, in reason rotten. ' Tiiy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps nnd amber studs ; All tiie~e in me no means can move To come to the'', an J oe thy love. !:=! I But could .youth la«t, and love s.ilj brcxd, J«a.l joys no -late, nor a^e ..o ne.d. Ih.u those deiij-hts my .soul n.i.ht move io live \vitl» thee, and be thy love. LXIX. 'ixfropfifi andStell,!. SONNET XXXI. iiow 8 Kntly ! and with how wan a fac.< ! Wl^t! may u be that oven in heavenly place That busy archer h s .harp arrows tries ? Sure, ,f that long with love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love thou feel'st J lover's case To me that fH the like, thy ,uPe descrL. f« 2ri °^^«^'«^'^»'iP. O Moon! tell me Is constant love deemed there, but want of wit? Do they above love to be loved ; and yet Ihose lovers scorn whom that kve doth possess - r>o they call virtue there, ung-.atefulnessT Sir Phtlip Sidneif. LXX. My Mind to me a Kingdfjtn is. Mjr mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find 1 hat It excels all other bliss ' That cauh affords or grows by k^d : rhough much I want which most would have Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely pomp, no wealthy store, ^lor force to win the victory • ^o wijy wit to save a sore, ' iS'o shape tc; teed a loving eye ■ To none of these I yield as thrall ' ForwI.y (Umute.) my im»d d„t|, ;,rve for all. ! sec l)ow plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soon Jo fall • I sre that those which are aloft, ' Mishap doih threaten most of uH ■ rh««egot with toil, they keep with' fear- auoa cares my mind could never bear ' Content to live, this is mj stay ; I seek no more tliuu dotli suffice ; I press to bi ar no hnuglity sway ; Look, what I lack my mitid supplies ; Ln ! thus I triumph like a king. Content with that my mind doth briuj^. Some have too much, yet still do crave ; 1 little have and seek no more. They arc but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store : They poor, I rich ; they beg, I give ; They lack, I leave ; they pine, 1 live. I laugh not at another's loss ; I grudiic not at another's giiin ; No worldly waves my mind can toss; My state ut one doth still remain : I fear no f<>e, Ifuwn no friend ; I loatli not life, nor dread my end. Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their r&'^e of will ; Their treasure is their only trust ; A cloaked craft their st>re of skill : But all the pleasure that I find, Is to maintain a quiet mind. My wealth is health and perfect ease : My conscience clear my chief defence ; I neither s«^k by bribes to please. Nor by deceit to breed ott'eneo : Thus do I live ; thus will I die ; Would all did so as wel' . i I ! Sir Edward Dyer. LXXI.^ The indirect Spenserians exhibit the characteristic features of the school . Allegory beoomes even more prououuoed. The Purple hland of Phinoas Fletcher describes the .hU of Man, or haman body , in an allegorical manner, and the old theme of the resemblances between the MacroooBin (Nature) and the Microcosm (Mart) is worked out on«e more. Man's arteries and veins, for instance, are analogous to the rivers and brooks of the outside world. The influence of the Fletchers is visible in 8ubse<|uent literature. In the poetry of Milton their traces are seen now and again, and of h„t v.„o„.ou., .lid boar ' Aor ragj,.H trees did leave, but eve ywl ere Head boue.s and .kulls were east, and boS h'^^.d w...^. 24, Upon the roof, the bird of sorrow «at Llonumg joyful day with her «ad note J) d wave her leather s.ils an■■«;,; . . iin.> entitled. o« 7U;x:,;it^:;;r '" """""• '•'""^-"■^ '^^^ ---'r'7''i;'xir"''" '''^'"'"^^ -I'tl.. Mino.. A«e,e,iad: U ^weet woods t^he delight or. olitarinoss*:' O how n.ud, I do l.ke your solitarinesse ' Where n.an'8 m.nd ha« a free cou«ideration Of Koodnesse to receive lovely direction. Janihic Senarius. If all six feet «r« ;„ k- •mansion : x - x - x - . - x x .^nser ' """ ^''""^'"^ '« »he And if I waste, who will bewaile u,y heavy ch-.nn ■' And ,f I starve who will recorde my cuS e^i' A-d If I dye. who will saye, " this i. Jir,,^ '- ? Kea.s)n, tell me thy mind, if here be rcson In th.8 strange v.olence, to make resistant' \Ucrc sweet graces erect the stately baToer f Vertue's regiment, shining in ha..,esj^ i^^y, then, Keason. I say, what is thy counsel ? th.^'i^TC' '"''''''''■ «^'"^"- -d Tennyson h..e uaed O, you chorus of indolent r.niewers Irresponsible, indolent reviewers ' Look I come t^ the test, a tiny poem All composed in a metre of Catullus. AJJ^diT' " x"'''; x' 7'*^' ^^ /" *^ns'i«h appears in Sidnay's -.re is moie'commoVthan ny St' ^T ""' ^ ' " - ^i« •"•^J by Spenser, and amon- he ToH^ u 'i"*""^^*^''. It has been s who I'llow. lowcj few ad: (hi If li iv^ *? ! a a II a P a / n ii cl rt ill tl: III Ml th ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (FIRST YEAR COURSE). Professor Chas. E. -Mov>k, B.A. - SU'UJKCTM. The rise of the Drama -the Elizibethan Dra iia. The main characteristics ol' th<' ancient (Jrcck iieh as the establishing a relation between the drama and religion, and tlu accommodating them to music and dancing ; but he omits the ob- If I Stl■::£;:;;;i,:;;:^^H.!:;ln'=;^^ 'r- '- '-' *'- i«n.8 of ,Mli>to,tt..l .ui.Mi ., r. r n I • '""'''^•"•' •'•'•plated i,]ettl. .fnun.„,a.i.„.-;^,;;i,;.::"''!;:;t;-:;r;s;^^^ LXXV. ^^ An^-jx^root fn„„ y,, ,,;,,,, , ,,, ,,,,„^. ^,,^^^.^^ ^ ^^^ .^^^ .'PParclkd areor.Jii,.'lv will. ,. L ?« '^ *""" "^'J'^'- the sUko, with a .nako atl.wu.t rl.- .•„ i . f 'ta . l' tL"' '' '""K '''T'' fir. braiK in the ri-ht hm I • , J / • i . „ ' '" «' C""'! with a whip intheti^ulld :;,Tp;:,ir' :the'V:ff- vfi"/''!:' '''"'" maski-ii; Mh.ut the stvN. fll :» 4- /• ^'"'*' ^'"T went which wnlke.1 by h';: ;. T 7 J""""' ':"n""^^'' ''''"'•'• t'^-'-e "uns, holders, theVan p ::r„H 't;%Y' V' '"'•^'"''^ ?-''-" »« the be-' cloister.' l/y the V t •;,',; I ' "f '"' 1 ''"""■' ''"= °""« ^' -f-" banquet of Uther He,. ,?,,.„ ^'' ' .;"''''^' ''".'Ic-.p was signified the by the poisoned n.p The ' ""^ "^'^''''\'^ '"-^ ''^••''th. which ensued reprc.ente.1 L .'f,...,'.' •.^' ''''^ ^"'7. ^'''^'' '"er 6rebrand and Cunid. „ ' , "'" '" "" eneeiinf,'ot tim prcsented\he irorVj ;;:;k tl^eifplt^^ '"'^"^ ^'-'^ - LXXVI. Sir r/ulif, S!,l»,ys opinuHi of Gorhoduv rlf '""" T^T'*;?' ''"'^ 'a»guajre, but oniy sli-htly ) Ohaueer uudoubte. v did excell.nLl • in I.;/t!. -i ^'' . ^ whon. truly I know „o', whether ! : ^ «, .ore ' Hh".r';i fr'^"' DH>ty time, could >ee «o ele-.rlv nr 11? ' ' \ , ^^^^ ^^' »" '^18 stu,lin,l^.^erhi.;.;"^yerhl^,^;^^-- tt±"^^^ ""^"^ ■* reverend anti.juity. I account Mie W/rr,; /" ii" • '"■""'^° '° *> uishedofbeautifui rarts and in rl Pi'^ f«^'''''"'*'' "'««'Jy Ear- things ta«tinj> of n.dl b rth"nj wo hv . "^ S''"'y''. '^'•'*"' """'J h.,r% Calender hath umeh ^cfrT ./ ITS' '"'°'^.- . ^J* W thereadin-Mflbonotdeceivorf Th , %losue8, indeed worthy do I not remember to have s.-on but ic^y^lf^.Jll V. .^^'^es these, have (HH,tieal ^iuew. i- I eu for JZ/'",r*J. ^^^?> P""^^. 'ba. verses be put in prose u, 1 tl . n T./.K ''''*• '^' '*"' """s' ^^^ '!"'' that one v-e,.sc did bui beUt anof hlr ' '"•T'"^ ' T** " ^'" »>« fi>"°d what should bratthn.lfwhr?*','' """*""* "J*^"""^ «' '«»« «»' with a tinkiin, ^^^r:.;::^^::^-^^ s^ -^' 1{ J Our trnu«dieN and comedies, not witlmut oiuw eri..;rvmK ruli. neith.-r of honest rivility nor of Hkiif.,1 po. try. cxoeptioir ^-rW,.r (apa.n I ..y of tl.os.. tl.ut I have .o«..), which, notwith- > undinK as jt is full of 8taf. ly >,.«,. -h... nnd wli ..oundin^ phrase.. .^!i.nb.n« to ,ho l,e.j,.ht of Scnrea Ins .tyl,-, and u,, full of noUblc n.oralit; «h.ch It doth n;ost deiiv^htlnliy ,ea.h und >o ul.t.viu the very end ^ |"H'..o, yot int.uth.it is v.ry d.-fe.-tiou.. (,/./.,/,>,.) in th.- oiroun,. 8.anee« ; which ;jriovi th n.r, b,«nu8c it ,„id.t not reni.iin a« an exact model of all traKedKs. For it i.s faulty h„th in place and tin..-, the two necessary compan.onH of ..11 corporal action... For where the stage >hould represent but one place and the utter.no>t time pre-supp-.^jd in It should be. both by Ari.stotle'.. precept and cmnmn reason, hut one -lay there i,s both inany days an.l many places ina.tificially imagined. Mat It It be so in Gori.odur, how mud. n...re m ,-,11 the rest' where you shall have Asia of the one si.le »nd Affricic of the oth. r and so many other undcr-kin-doms, that the player, when he enmeth in, must even begin with telling where he i.s ;or el.^o, the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have tlw.e ladies walk to .^ul her flowers, and then we must believe the sfc.ge f. he a garden. Ry .^nd by, we hear news of sn.pwreck in the same place, and then we nre to blame if we accept It not for a rock. Upon the back of th.u. eon.es out a hideoas monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are b..und to take It for a cave. While, in the meantime, two armies flv m, represented with four .swords an.l bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field y" An .ijn)/,iijit:/or Poetiy. Lxxvir. Some extracts from The Spanish T,-w,,,l,,, a play by Thomas Kyd . with additions by Jkn Jo„-o... This play is ,i se.,u.l ,o>/„ Fi,.( Part u, .'.rontmo, and Jeronimo is a leading ehaiacur in both The two dramas are cr-eilent specimens of the tone and motive which are pre- sented in pre-ohakesperian tragedy. The ruling passion is revenge. Receugv, Then know, Andrea, that rhou art arriv'd Wh. re thou shalt .see the author of thy death, Don Balthazar, the prince of I'ortingal, Depriv'd of life by Bell' Imperia. Here sit we down to see the n.ysttry. And ivrvefor Clwrux in f/iis tr/ii/nfi/. TItv SiHUiifh Tniij.dy, Act I. Thesonof Uieronimo (Jeronin,o) has been h.nged in an arbour and stabbed to death. Hi. father, al.rmed by the .shrieks of iWl'-Imperia w.io 18 hurried away by the murd.rers, leaves his b.d hurriedly, goes |o the ark-ur ami cut.s.iown the body, whiel. he .liseovers to be thafr of Ins son. Hicronimo addresses his wile, IsabLlla. If T I If ! _iL. '/ur Sfc«t tlum this hnn.lkcr. I ri,e„„e..r'd with blco.j ? ItBhallnot (rout m, '! T t.kir vcn-o : HecBt tli( . tbo.. w.iuimI.. .at jci urc'bicodiri.' CrcNh ? '101 «M,i<,i„| ,l„.,i,, till 1 hiiv,. vfi.jjc : l\ J l.tU Hill 1 joy aillld.st my .li» .III. Ut i 1 111 theu luy Narrow iirv.T OkiU |„. Hj^jnt. In ihc luM Act of iIm i,;..y the rolh.wiu; c,,i-od vcun : /■"^•r Is,\';ki.I,a *mVA tilc and \m w icked son Jioth done to ikath by old Jrierouimo. My BcU'-Iuip iria lall'n, as Di.lo fell : And «ood llieioniuio slain by iiiujsclf Jfev. This ban] shall hale them down' to deepest hell AVbcrc none but furies, bu-s (jjoLlins) and tortures dwill. Lxxmi. lowti UuU. Jioba.lMl ,s lo ij,M„;r at th. house of Cob, a Wuterbcarer and is anxious not to have his (ivv. !lin-p!aee known A Lr,^;: matt-r hu. be., toucho.l o,, tLe dial„,u. ^r.!;:?.^, asfX.s'^-" *'" JS'>>. IcufcH. Have a ckanly and . lii.t privacy above all th.- Mm. Ay : (lili tlu- I WhU, .Mhmut Mathcw r,ii,l», linhadill mnhn hhntflf rM-h,.) V'if. In.ltNMl hi^ri! iiru a nu'iibcr of tiin- f<|K'icli«'H in thi> I. -ok • '/■>!, ,11, ,,/,n, l,„f fonii/iiiiu haiKjht with Iriirs ! thtTu'N a .•.nwit I l:nnl,lln»/r(t.njht iri/l, t,„r» < () ///,.. „„ u,,.^ f,„i /i„,.l^ ,„^„, „, ,,,„,;, f MM.tliiT. world, ,„> w>rf(f, h„i ma»M „f puhUc ',r'roH,fi > a third. r-nlHiKd 'imllilhd irith nliinln' .i,„l ni!^,l,;,h ' a f,>url\t. (J iht' my. Is'iu.,1 .xniuMit/ l>'t imt .-in.|.lv flir bet that iv.r vou li. aid, caiitiiin '/ Hal how do vu like it "' /iofj. Ti» jiood. Ben Jnnxun. K>:uch coiiccitx a^* clowiiii>i;f keeps in piy. We'll If.id you to the st.ij. And seourgiuy; kin-donis with his con.juerinj,' sword. \'iew but his |)ieture in this trai^ic •riasa, And then applaud lii.> fortune as you please. ChnMupher (Kit) Mariowe. {The I'ro/mpir /„ tl„. first P.,,t of /''iinliiii/'iiuf t/ir Ori'iif,} /••'"/'•/•Tamhi RI.AINK, ih-'itvi, in hi* fh'iriut /.// fhe Kiitgt 'j/TliKBl- /ONI) „nJ SORIA. niti, hitit in thiir mouH-s, rfinli in his hit hnml^ and ■'I hi* riyhf hand i^couryith them . TeciIH 1 ES rilERII.AMAS, UsUMCASANE. A.MYKA8, C'ei-EBIND8 : AV/.-y. 'of Natoma .»«(Z.IercS\I.EM /e,f five or «uc n.mmnn »oldirr». ' Tamb. Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia I What ! ean ye draw but twenty miles a day, And have so proud a chariot at your heels. And such a co.ichuian as great Tamburlaino, But from Asphiiltis, where T coiKiuered you, To Byron here, wher. thus I honour you .' The horse that jiuide the golden eye of Heaven, And blow the njoming from their uosterils. -Making their fiery gait above the clouds. Are not so honoured in their governor. As you, ye slaves, in mighty T:imburlaine. The headstrong jades of Thrace Alcides tamed, That King Egeus fed with human flesh, And made sc wanton that they knew their strengths, Were not subdued with valour more divine i II - - r*. J: II r: II MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART {ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) Hi 110 2.8 3.2 3.6 1 40 2.5 2.2 2.0 1.8 ^ APPLIED IIVMGE ^^^ 1653 East Main Street ^^S Rochester, New York U609 USA '-^ (716) 48i - 0300 - Phone ^S (^16) 288 - £989 - Fox rfW E i 1 ! '■ •: 1 ■ i 1 ■' ■ Than you by this unconquered arm of mine. To make you fioree. and fit my ajipetite, You sli.iU be fed with flesh as raw as blood, And drink in pails the stron<;e.st muscidel ; It' you can live with it, then live, and draw' My chariot swifter tiian the r;ickin<: clouds ; [f not, then die like beasts, and fit" for nauuht But perciics for the black and fatal ravens." Thus am I ri,i::ht the scour«,'e of hiirhest Jove ; And see the fiijiire of my dignity JJy which J hold my ii;ime and majesty ! Th(. Sf-roiiJ. P.rrt of Tnmhiirhiine 'hr Great (Act IV* Sc. IV.) What is beauty, saitii my suffering,-;, then ? If all the pens that ever poets held JIad fid the feeliui; of their nia-ters' thoughts And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their miini.^, and muses on admired themes • If all the heavenly (|uintessenee they still l-'rom their immortal flowers of poesy Whi'rein, as in a mirror, we perci-ive ' The liiiihest reaches of a human wit ; If these li.id made one poem's period, And all combined in i»eantys worthiness. Vet sheuld there hover in their restless heais ( Ine thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least Wliicli into words no virtue (^j)owrr) can di-'cst. The Fifsi P'irf <>/ T>imhiirln!iie the Gmit (Aqt V., Sc. I.) LXXX. Sir Topluis. I-lpi. Efiitnii. At hatiil, sir. 7'"/'. How likest thou t'lis martial life, where nothing but blood hcsprinkleth our b'l.soms '! Let me see, be our enemies fat ? A>;. l'.i.«.sing fat : and I wouM not change this life to be a lord: and yourself passcth all coinparisou, for other captains kill and beat and there is nothing ymi kill, hut you :ilso eat. ' Tt>i,. I will tear the flesh with my teeth, .so mortal is my hak" and s(i eager my unstanched stoma(;h. ' Epi. 3ry master thinks himself the valiantest man in (he world if lie kill a wren : so warlike a thing he aeeompteth to take away life though it be I'rom a lark. ' Toil. ^''P'. I fi"d my thoughts to swell, and iny spirit to take wings, m so much that J cannot continue within the compass of so slender combats. F;« '. Top. I will encounter that black iiiid cruel eueniy that beareth rough and untowed locks upon his body, whose sire thmwctli down the strongest walls, wliose legs arc as many as ours, on whoso head arc jilaccd most Imrriblc horns by nature, as a defence from all harms. Epi. What mean you master to be so desperate '.■' Honour inciteth me, and very liungcr eompellcth me. Wiiat is that monster? The monster Ovin. I have s:iid, — let thy wits work. 1 cannot imagine it ; ytt let me see, — a black enemy with rough locks ? it may be a sheep, and Ocls is a sheep; his sire so «trong, a ram is a sheep's sire, tliat beiiiL' also an en;.;ine of war ; horns lic hatii, andjpur legs, — so hath a sheep ; without donbt tiiis monster i-i a black sheep. Is it not a sheep that you m* an ' Top. Thou hast hit it, that monster will I kill and sup with. John J-iyly. End'union. (Act II., Sc. I.) Top. Epi. Top. Epi, ill LXXXI. The following specimen of Euphuistic writing is comparativoly simple. The term Knphuism isderivei from a novel entitled Enplnus, The Aiiiitomij of Wit, whicii was written by John Lyly and published in 1579. The scene of Ei/plniis is laid in Italy. Its tone is anti- Italian, and in this ropeet it displays the feeling of I'oger Ascham's Sc,hole)nm. it is better to take a specimen of this mode of writint; irom Lyly's plays, botl) because they are extremely Euphuistic and bcc^iuse Euphuism tiiiures cons|iicuously in the early drama. The (|ualitie> to be ob- :^erved in Euphuism arc (a) oddity of thought, as seen in far-fetched comparisons; (b) the constant u>e of natural objects as material for «uch comparisons ; (ej a similar use of j-hissical history and mytho- logy. Sir W. Scott mi>understood the character of Kuphuism when he made his Euphuist in tl;e Monnxteri/, Sir Piercie Shafton. speak what miiibt lie termed false Johnsonese. I* T/ir Prologue lit the. Court. The Arabians being stuffed with perfumes, burn hemlot.k, a rank poison ; and in Hyb.a, being cloyed witii honey, they account it dainty to feed on wax. Your Highness' eyes, whom variety hath filled with r.iir shows, and whose ears pleasure hath possessed with rare sounds, will (we trust) at tliis tinle resemble the [irinccly eagle, who, fearing to surfeit on spices, stoopeth to bite on worm-wood. Wo present no con- ceits nor wars, but deceits and loves, wherein the truth may excuse it ; plainness; the necessity, the length ; the poetry, the bitterness. There is uo needle's point so .-"maii which hatii not his compass ; nor hair so slender that hath not his shadow ; nor sport so simple which hath not his shew. Whatsoever we present, whether it be tedious 1^ which we fear), or toyish (which we doubt), sweet or sour, absolute or imperfect, or whatsoever; in all humbleness we all, and I on knee S'S IP til .lti I 'I 1 , • , ; Xor shines the silver moon one half so briulit J'hrough tlie transparent bosom ol the deef., As doth thy faee, thiough tears of mine, uive Thou shiiiot in every tear that I do weep : ^fonsi;nce upon Seuce, or Scncd upon Nonsense, chuse you whether, cither or neither — Written upon white paper, in a browne study. Be- ginning at the End and written by John Taylor at the signe of the Poore Poets Head in Phenix Alley neare the middle of Long Aker, in Covent Garden. The Essence, Quintessence, Insencc, Innocence, Llfe^^-^Qce and Mag- nificence of Nonsence upon Sance, 1653. If i 1 LXXXII. OJ the Spire or Taper called Pyramis. From God the fountaine of all good, are deriued into the world all good things : and vpon her niaieeiie all the good fortunes anv worldly creature can be furnisht with. R^ade downvtard according to the nature of the deuice. 1 Go.l On Hie 2 From Abone Sends lone Wisedonie, lu 8tice Con rage, Bonn tie. 3 And doth gtue Al Uiat Hue, Lite anii breath Harts ese iielth Children, welili Benuiy ^tr^n);th lieslfnll age, And at leD>;ih A mild death, 11 I !■' tow All Miens forliiiies Both liij^h and low Aii'l the best t!iin;;s That earth can haiie Or mankinil crane, f JoLxi i|ueens and kinjjs Fi ruilly is the sanis Who gaiie yoiiCniadain) Seyson of thia Crowne With ponre f^ouerai}.'ne 5 Inipiig nable rijiht. ReJoulitable might, Most prospei tiB riiigne Eteriiall re rownie, And that your chiefest is Sure hope of heauens blis. [The (ignreH at the nide, represent the number of Hvllubles. Kn.J T/if Pi/lfi; rUhislcr or <'il/i,i,H.iue and Dasck. to txoo d-umt .:uu,.rt.,„.,la confusion, „/ martial m,.»ic / at the .v.l",fJS U.,LA« ...appears, »h,nring hr shkld. The EviLs are Lndto J'a/. So chanirc, and perish, warcely knowing how, I liiit 'gainst the gods do take so vain a vow And think U) equal, with your mortal dates ' liieir lives that nre obnoxious to the Fates 'Twas time t'appear and let their folly see .uinst whom they fought, and with what d^tiny V'j L *'*" remain of you but stone \nd that bv .seen a while, and then be none ! JNow, now de^fcend, you both beloved of Jove, And of the good on earth no less the love ;' The scene changes ; and she cafh AsTRiEA and the Golden Age. Descend, you Ions, long wished and wanted pair And as your softer tiines divide the air, So shake all clouds off with your golden hair ■ i-or bpite 18 spent : the Iron Age is fled, And, with her power on earth, hor name 'is dead. AbT^RA and the GoLDEN AOE descending with a SoNG. ■ I-', fj. ^(.'/e-— And are we then To live a^n With men ? .iv/. Will Jove such pledges to the earth 'estore As Justice 1 G. Aije. — Or the purer ore ? l\d. — Once more. G. Atje.—hwt do they kno«. How much' they owe? Below ? AKt—A.nd will of grace receive it, not as due? "«/.— If not, they harm themselves, not you. A.it. — True. Aiie.—Trxxe. C'/io.— Let narrow natures, how they will, mistake, Ihe great should still bf good for their own sake. ;>„, n- , . ,, , . (They come, foiioanf) /aZ.— Welcome to earth, aud reign ! ^^ ./ j A^«ll tl'e honour given. That thankful hearts can rais« from larth to hea. en. Ben Jonson. t i M i w I LXXXVI. All OiUfor him. Ah But I Say how, or when Shall wc thy Guests 3Ieet at those Lyrlck Feasts Made at the ^. Studies serve for d''!i"hf fnrmnamcnf ,. \e v- m, 1.0^ JVr exirt mnn ^' '' '° *''" .'"dgment and disposition of busi- of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time m studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornamoi" , is affecta- tion ; to luake judjrment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience For natura abilities are like natural plants, that need proynins? (prunnm) by study; and studies themselves do -ive forth directions too much at large, except they bo bounded in by experience. Crafty men con- temn studies ; simple men admire (,ronder at) them ; and wise men use them For th.-y teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above thorn, won by observation. Histories make men wise ; poets witty (imaginative) ■ the mathe- matics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, -ravo; lo-ie and rhetoric, able to contend. Abmnt stadia in m>,-es. Nay "there is no.stond (hindrance ; nasalized form or stand) or impedimelit in the wit, but may be wrou-ht out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may liave appropriate exercise : bowling is uood for the stone and reins, shooting tor the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach ridiDg lor the head, and the like. So, if a man's wits be wanderin-' let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must be-in again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find diflerences, let him stutanding the base viol and tobacco • swears tersely, and with variety : cares not wiiat lady's favour he behes, or great man's familiarity: a good pn.perty to peffume the boot of a coach. He will borr.w auother .i.an's horse to praise and backs liim a.s his own : or, (or a need, on foot can post himself into credit with his merchant, ..nly with the gin-le of his .pur, and the jerk ot his wand. Clove asv Obangk. Ar, inseparable case of c.xcombs, city born • t lie Gemini, or twins of fopp.ry : that like a p:.ir ot wooden foils arc It tor notfiing but to be practised upon. Being well flattered they'll len.l money, and repent when they have done. Their -lory is to invite piayers, aud make suppers. And in company of better rank, to avoid the susf fi>/nm, in tirri^' .■ifatnit : God there- fore jilan,] in the<„rth themnn irhnni he had m>«h:. as if were another vor/d, the great and lanje n-orld in the small and. little icorhl : for out ot earth and dust was formed the flesh of man, and therefore heavy and lumpish ; the bones of his body we may compare u^ the hard rocks and stones, and therefore strong and .lurable; of which Ovid : Jnde genus durum snmns, t.i/)erieniiuiall -.t.-iniini: and time hath made him a proficient only in boldness, I'Ut of which and his table book he is furnished for a preacher. His collections of study :irc the notes of sermons, which taken up at St. Mary's, he utters in the country. And if he write bracigraphy, his stock IS so much the better. His writing is more than his reading ; for he reads only what lie gets without book. Thus iiccotnpltshod he eouics down to his friends, and hi« first salutation is grace and peace (uit of the jmlpit. Ilis piaycr is conceited (fanciful), and no man leuiembers his college more at large. The pace of his sermon is a full career, and he runs wildly over hill and dale till the clock stop him. The labour of it is chiefly in his lungs. And the only thins he has made of it himself is the faces. He takes on against the Pope without mercy, and has a jest still (rrer) in lavender for Bellarmine. Yet ho preaches heresy, if it comes in his way, though with a mind I must 11 (Is say very orthodox. His action is all passion, and his spiech iiiteijcttions ; . . . . His style is compounded of some twenty several men's, only his body imitates some one extraordinary. He will not draw his handkercher out of his (Its) place, nor blow his nose without discretion. His commendation is, that he never looks upon hook, and. indeed, he was never used to it. He preaches but iinec a year, though twice on Sunday : for the stuff' 'w, still (ever) the same, only the dressing a little altereil. He has more tricks with a ser- mon, than a tailor with an old cloak, to turn it, and piece it, and at last quite di>guise it with a new preface. If he have waded further in his jirofes^ion, and would show reading of his own, his autliors ai*^ postils, and his school-divinity a CJiteehisn. His fashion and demure habit get him in with some town-precisian, and makes him a guest on Friday nights. You shall know him by his narrow velvet cape, and seri;e f.ieiuj, and his rutf, next his hair, the shortest thing about him. The companion of his walk is .some zealous tradesman, whom he astonisheth witii strange points, which they both understand alike. His friends and much piiinfulness may prefer him to thirty pounds a year, and this means, to a chamljermaid : with whom we leave him now in the l>ond> of wedlock. Next Sunday you shall have him again. — Microcos- iiivyr'iphir. (1(>2S.) {M icrocosmographie was, in all likelihood, written by John Earle 11600-161)5], an estimable Churchman, who adhered to thi' King's party during the Civil War. At the Restoration. Earle returned from exile, was consecrated Bishop of Worcester in 1662, and in the next year was translated to the see of Salisbury.) I? $1 ! ill! It % III XCI. The following list of Drydeu's Heroic Plays n.ay prove useful • The ludian Qu.en (U\L^ "l^P^'^'f source-some scones in rhuo. ""any the whole in Hme^' °'""""''^ "'*'' ^"- «• Howard-very ^A. /«,/u«« Emperor ( ] .!(55)_in rime. prof ^""' "• '^'^ -^'«''^'« '«^"-" n607)-i„ rime, blank ve.se, Tijranak Loot, or the lio,,al Martip- flOGS '^^-in rime deiy s romanee of ^ /,„„/nV?^. I„ hi, /-„,.,„ „' ,;:. '." ™f "'^- J,*; •'-'cu- XCI I. De.U,,,torjj Epistlr t,> T„e Rival Ladies. %Lord/^'''" Honourable JJo^er, Eurl of Orrery. •..!^!l!!S'f^r^rr'fr^'"^'"'^^""' Jo-'-be^reitwasa PLv thouu'hto.p;aic~rv .,1^ '"'■"°' ^* T""^ ^^''^"'^^ '" VVrse • L'ORSET. and prrie i or toTat^^e 11 ? p"''"'^ afrerw.-.rds Earl of his Soul'and T.tli; wl h m- nluS l' T"' ^''"^- ^'^ ^'^ i"'"-'"^^ nations of J-:uropeV^Si al w v th .1 '"'' •■"''-'"' '"^^ "-''^"'^"'^ World in this, as „,ost of us d 1 ''""" ^''T^-'^'^'y ' «P1«'^' t''^' *-» rny mt. j. or the French, I do not name them, because it is the fate of our oountrjmen, to admit little of theirs amoD-^ us, but the basest of their men, the extra vagancios of their fas-hions? and t!ie frippery of their nierchandi-se. Shakespeare, who (with .some errors, not to be avoided in tli.it Age) had, undoubtedly, a larwr Soul of Poesy (l,:,n ever any of .lur nation, was the First, who (to shun the pains of cominunl iliymiu;?) invented that kind of writin- whicii we call Hltink Versa— fbn/den nui/ces o misfnke. Thr first biniik rersa i„ „„■ Lltnaliin i'.< fhf tntiishifi'oii „/ the Scrond and Fourth hooks of Vi,nU g .Eneid h,/ licit ry Bov.ird, Earl of Sitirej/ .- the /irst jdn'es of'o, '.,u,,d bhui'k verse were ir,itten by Nir'iolia Grlinou/d, and ap/xtu iii ToTTEL's Miscellany, thiir sn'jjWts briuq th J)eath op Zoroas, an Eoifti \x Astronomer, a„d Marcus Tullil-s Ciceroes Death)— but the Freueh more properly Frosr Mrsuree: into whiih the Kn-lish toiiiiue so naturally slides, that in writinj; Prose.'tis hiirdly to be avoided. And, therefore, J admin; (wo,i,ft!clies ; whicli in the ".t-rsc (,f those before him, runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is outof bnath to overtake it. ' This sweetness of Mr. Waller's Lyric Poe>y was, afterwa-.ls, fol- lowed in the Epic, by Sir John Denham in his Voojjer's Hill, a Poem which your Lord.ship knows! for the majesty of the style is, and ever will be, the Exact Standard of Good Writing. iJut if we owe the invention of it to ^Ii. WuIUt ^e are acknow- ledging for the noblest use of it, to Sir William D'Avei.mt; who at mice brought it upon the Stage, and made it perleet in Thr Sl<ryden then specifies toe advantages; of rime o.er blank versj ; (a) It helps the memory, (i) the sudden Miiartne.ss of the answer (Kepartee) and the sweetness of the rime sti off tlu beauty of each other, (<•) it bounds and circumscribes the Kancy.) I ,;'( li ■ii'l XCIII. The following extract is taken from An Essai/ of Dr.niuitir pn,:s,, Dryden's most celebrated contribution to the literature wiiicli deals with the investigation of the best form of verse for a play. The E. -vers of that Nature, wliich is so torn and ill represented in our Plays, They If III i: r ,1 "•"•^••1 I umst remeiub,'. v!r /h T1 T""'''""'' a^-^ di«ti- pracV. t!u. J)..,..a.a .t th Ta^Cotrr'^ ''' '^ ^"''^^ '[^ "^^'^h «« ■'l»d yvmmeirvof the Plot or h^ .'n.' ^ T''"''" *^ the Ju.tnes. 'he play, we.e deiivored" u' ' J'lre S ''' ' •'" "'l^ "-"''"I to "iade of those peots which eitl^ ".,".», '"'''''''"' '^'" A"«' ''e pon.ru.s. We h,vo .d,!,.,! t .m ' f ' "' ^^'' '""« «""'..„- confidence to «.y, . Ou. wit b"i ^.'17' '""'r ^^ ''^^'^ ^''^ Aue hut >ueh as understand n t th i .' r f I .T? ^"'''*' °'" '" '>«'• has left us-JIora.e his A ,n, P V ^ '''"' ^'^^ «^'''c'' Aristotle of these two (Author h.V ' "^ " "*? "^''*'"''"' Oomment -Out to be observed in every m/«/«r pV./ n '"' V'n"'' ^''■'-•'' ""fe'ht Action. ^ ^ '""^ ^'''J^- "'""«!>', of Time, Pi,ace, ?„d XCIV I''n.ni the Prolo^u'ue to Senrf Ur, <• or thn Maiden qnct,,. |i M Ihe ex.ictest rules bv whinb a .!i t>iou<,'ht u" s oy wnich a pl.-.y i.s wrou^'ht : y^ Inch are the living' beauties of play " XOV^ Ih-yden. Fb. ; Tilt PR,„,oauE to 7V,e »■„„/ /„„,,■,, Al:;^^"!''^^''''''-^''^'ivehVhttotheplnt FiHit ir ^'■' r '"": ^'""dy-ni'nded men ' Sad do n?*^"' ""■" '■'^'■' ''"'^ dance :.,..in S"ch deep .ntn,.ues you're weleon.e to th.'s day • But bla.no yourselves, not hi,„ who writ tie fc. Dry den. XCVI. A .spocinicn of the extrav»-.mco of il.e " hcrf>ic ' niodo, ti.kcn from Ih> t imt Part of the Coutjumt „f Or'nindu. Almanz. To live! Ii" from thy bands alonn my death can be, I nm imuiortul. and a god to thee. If I would kill ;!iee now. thy fiite's so low, That i must ptoop ere I can give ihc blow : Bat mine is fixed so far ibovo thy crown, That all thy nun. Piled on thy buck, can never pull it down : Bat at my euse thy destiny I send, By ceasing from thiii hour to bo thy friend. Like heaven, I need but only to stand still. And, not concurring in thy life, I kill. Thou can'st no title to my duty brin" ; I'm not thy subject, and my soul's thy king. FiirewcU. When I am gone, There's not a star of thine daro stay with thee : I'll whistle thy tnmc fortune after me ; And whirl fate with me wheresoe'er I fly, As winds drive .storms before them in the .sky. XCVII. Prom The Rehearsal, a play written by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and others, and commonly spoken of as Buckino-Lam's Jiehearsal. The object of the writers was to u i.ke the heroic play seem an absurdity. D'Avenant was to be the heio of The Rehearsal but pryden was sub>tituted for him, and was named Bayes, owin-' to his being the poet laureate. (The student .should not fail to read Dryden s caricature of Buckingham as Zimri in Absalom and -icAj^opAci and also Pope's -e.l-known lines in his Moral Essnus Jipistle 111. Other reteren-ies to Buckingham are, by comparison' unimportant To explain the extract, it may be stated that Jol-nson and bmith play the part of critics. ^:4 lit R III I ii one, if there be an/ Wit in', a/ • iL ""' "■ t'""^'''"^' '«■• th«f « all up SOU.0 ti„.e) ,f it be Verse. pZa'S Fro^' ^"" (''"* "^^ ^^l'" be tiivrT^:;:;;^:,;"^- ^'^- *•- P-^'^^^r. in. r.se «hould J'"'"'- ^' ""' '^"^''- « ^-.v .«ood Xotion , and hereafter it «Ik.11 be nUL ^\f"l/"':i ""'• ^''«^ ''>do >vith it then v ./a««. Well we hear you: go on. rS(ll/is, j\s thus. 1 coilip infn .. n^fl- 1 where wittie n,eu report, I u?akea?if I ,.1'T r''?.'"'' "^T °^'"^^ P'«°« >n.t u. soon as any one'spS7 Jon I In^ ."""""^ ' ^^''y"" -"^^k ?) uiy own. ' P'-''''' P°P ^ «'»P 't Jown, and make that, too, -^^y'^^^<^:^'£:':C,::[ -'°«^'>"- ■•« tiie criticism of Milton '8 Paradise Loit, of Chevy Chase and of the Tco Children in the Wood — ' English Deism— the Essay on ^«n— Bolingbroke— the outlines of Doism — the reaction— the orthodox literature of gloom— Goethe criticism. ILLUSTRATIONS. xcvin. The heroic couplet was tlien the favourite measure. The art of arranging words in that measure, so that the lines may flow smoothly that the accents may fall correctly, that the rhymes may strike the lar strongly, and that there may be a pause at the end of every distich, is an art as mechanical as that of mending a kettle or shoeing a horse, and may be learned by any human beiug who has sens? enough to learn any thing. But, like other mechanical arts it was gradually improved by means of many experiments and many failures It was reserved for Pope to discover the trick, to make himself complete master of it, and to teach it to every body else. From the time when his Pastorals appealed, heroic versification became matter of rule and compass ; and, before long, all artists were on a level Hundreds of dunces who never blundered on one happy thought or expression were able to write reams of couplets which, as far as euphony was concerned, could not be distinguished from those of Pope hiffiself, and which very clever writers of the reign of Charles the Second, Rochester, for example, or Marvel, or Oldham, would have contemplated with admiring despair. Ben Jonson was a great man, Hoole a very small man. ButHoole M ici 'ill I II If i Ik I li ML ti J: H J T i T 1 ■ '* r i;r; 1 iin« after I'opelm.I l.armd how e» n)anu(artur.Ml.,.ttsyll.ibl..T.r^., r>..ur...i th..,n h.r.h l.y tbou.an.l. :.„d t,,.. of thou..n,l . ,.1 U^ tlir It'll. AM kiiiiu>rli '•■..! ..» :i. I.I . . .' ' "^ comir well turiUM , as .m.„,tl, ,„„| ,« lik,- ....i,.!. ..,|,..r .. tl... hlnc-k v hich mv pa*...l .l.joum, Mr. Ilru.u.fs ,„,ll in ,h.. .Im-kyarl nt F r, XCIX. A KKWOK Till Kss.WIsTx u.\ ('!UT|i I^M. John Dry.i.Mi — /;..<„y „/• iJr„,„;/ir I'm.,, .loliu Slu.ffidJ, Duke of Uuckin.^l,am,hii.._.|. £■,,.„„ „„ j.,„,,,, ^, Wen.worth Dillon, Karl of Himoo,,...,.,,.-.,, /;„,„/„„ y, ,/;,,,^ .JJ^;-^(Jranvili.., Lord L:i,Hdow„e-AV.,y ., / i y,;,jUu Alexander Pope -/;«..<*/ „„ CriH';»,„, ,,«!.. 1711. V From Ai.ni.soN's Papkron PnPK's AVv,,y ., CV,7,V,\„,. In our own Country a Man scldon. sots up for a Pout witlm.u attacking the Reputitiim of all hin Brothers in la ArtS roetry, art the Topieks of F)etracfiou, with which he inak.- hi^ Entrance into the V/orid : Hut how much more noble is he F. e Lter.. S Sitter-"' V'r'";r^>-- ='--^-'-'' to those'beaut -uinc*. It Mr John Dn,hnm, m hi.s IVin on Fletchers Works I n„t winlhr am I stro,,r,l .> J ncr.l n„t rmne ryhir. to fhec /,u>,,, nthn- M,„. Dimrnh,- > i\or >$ thji Fame, on lem'r Ruii,>, buUt No,-,„;,hth!,j„,ter rUl. the foul a, lilt ftfK'.Hhrn I^>,g.,v-ho, fos.cun fheh- lieig,. Mnst lu,v, then- Brothers, So,s, „.d Klndnd slain. without that methodical Hculaiitv which w,„,i u ^^ V> in a Pros*. AnH.nr I'kL " ^ „ . "^'^"''' '"'^*^ been reiiu site Ik^ ^ a '^"*''"'^- ^ ^'•^'e are some of them uncommon but such a^ rruth «n.l .S.|..iity. A...1 Uvu- uivr mo loavn to mention whnt Moii- WorkH. ,ha| Wu an.l fi„o Writi... .lo,/. „„t .......i^e .. „u,U in u.lvnneinj: I l.inKS th.t an- now ..h i„ ^ivin^ Tl.in..-. M.„t arc kMo« „ ,„ a.-n-cahh- I urn. It is ,n.,.osHihl.. r„r ,... wl... liv in fho lMt(t)or A-.* ..» 1... Worl.itoni.kc OUTvatioMs in Criti.-iM... .Morulity. or in ."ny Art or Sconco which Imv.. not b.rn tourl„.,l npoii l.y oth.,-. \\i liav httio vU' |..ft im, bur to r..,.r..se„t the ..n,„,„o„ Sons,- of Mankin.l m more ^tron-, nmr.- (..■antifnl. or inor.. uncommon ?.i.'hl. If ■, {.•a.l.>r oxammoH //,.,■„,•,•. Arf o/ /Wtn,, he will fin.l h.a vry few 1 ricept. in it, which he may not meet with in AnSf..,/. ...n-l which w.;r.. not .-ommonly known by all th.. l'o>t. of the A„:,„M,.n, \,r,. II.H Way ofoxprcs.,nj,. and applying: then, not his Inv.M.tioo ..fthe'u,; what wo arc chiefly to admiro 1 cannot ooncludo thii apor w.thmit taking notice that wo have ti.ree Poern« in our Tonmio, ^mj. are of the ..me Nature, and each of thorn a Master-pioc i.Mis ind : the Kasay on Trann ated Verse, the E8,ay on the Art of Poetry .nd^t^o^ Kssay upon Cnt.ci.sm.--A>,7„^,,, .V„. 253. rhurs,!,,,,, ol; CI. Hut *H)n by inipiou" arms fr.>in Latium chus'd, I heir !incient hounds the banish'd .Muses pas.s'd • Ihenw Arts o'er all the northern world advance*" i!ut ( 'riiiciearnin;; flourish'd most in France : ' The rules a nation. Iwrn to servo, obeys ; And Boileau still in ri<,'htof Horace sways. But we, brave Briums, forei^'n laws dospisM, And kept uncoD(|ncr'd and uncivilizd ; Fierce for the lil)erties of wit, and bold We still dofy'd the Uomaiis as of old. Yet some there were, ainons: the sounder few Of those who less presum'd and bett<;r knew, Who durst assort the juster ancient cause. And here rosfor'd Wii's fundamentd laws. Such was f ho Mu.se, whoso rules and practice tell, Jd ature"s chief M.ister piece i.s writinj,' well " u , „ (EnMii/oti Porfni : Hi-i altoi'f) .^ueh was Roscommcn, not more iearn'd than «ood vy ith manners sjen'rous as his noblo blood • To him the wit of (irecoe and Rome was known. And every author's merit, but his own ■•such late was Walsh—the Muse'g jud-.; and friend— I'opc. A'x«o_y oil Cn'ticinm. n if IS it*^ on. Ati Accouut of the Greatest English Poets. To Mr, H. S., Aiiril Snl, 1694. Since deiircst Harry, you will needs request A short account of all the mus(vpossest, That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's times Have spent their noble rage in British rhymes ; Without more preface, writ in formal length. To speak the undertaker's want of strength I'll try to u.iikc their several beauties known, And show their verses' worth, though not my own. T.ong had our dull forefathers slept supine. Nor felt the rriptures of the tuneful Nine ; Till Chaucer first, the merry bnrd arose And many a story told in rhyme and prose. JJut age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his ! mguage, :ind obscured his wit ; Jn vain he jests in his unpolished strain And tries to make his readers '.augh in vain. Old Spen.ser next, warmed with poetic rage, In ancient tales amused a barbarous \a.^c An age that yet uncuitivate and rud^ Where'er the poet's fiincy led, pursued Through pathless fields, and unfrequented floods, To dens of dragons and enchanted woods. But now the mystic tale that pleased of yore. Gun charm an undersfandimj a. ainiyed in majesty, Bold, and sublime, my wiiole attention draws, And seems above tlie'eritie's nicer laws. ^^ But now my Muse, a softer strain rehe;nse, Turn every line witli ;irr, imd smooth thy verse • The courtly Waller next eoinmands thy lays : Muse, tunc thy verse with art to Waller's praise. While tender ;iirs ;in>l jovi'ly dames insfiire Soft; meltioi;- thou-lits, ami pro[ia;>ate desire; So Ion;; shall Waller's simins our^passion move And Sacharissa's be.iuties kindle love. Nor must IJoscomuinii pass nculected b\' That iii;ikes ev'ji rules a noble poetry ; Kules, whose deep sense and hcMvenly numbers show The best of critics, and of poets too. Nor, Denh;im, must we e'er forget thy strains. While Cooper's Mill ccmimands the neiuhbouriuL' plain.- But see where intfid JJrydor. ne^it appears," (rrown old in rhyme, hut eliarmini;- ev'n in year's, Great Dryden next, whose tuneful muse affords ' The sweetest numbers, and tiie fittest words. Fow might we fear our Kn'_'lisli poetry, That long has flourished, siiould decay with thee ; Did not the muses' other hope appear. Harmonious Congreve, and forbid our fear. Congreve ! whose fancy's unexhausted store Has given already mueii, and promised more. Congreve shall still preserve tliy fame alive, And Dryden's muse shall in his friend survive. I'm tired with rhyming, and would fain give o'er But justice still demands one labour more : The noble Montague remains unnamed. For wit, for humour, and for judgment famed ; To Dorset lie directs his artful muse. In numbers such as Dorset's self mi"lit use. .11 f I Add!: ■son. I n m I cm. i^ I I The CoFi'KK-ndusKs ok flie Tnth,-, All accoiir)t.s of ■■ulliintrv nl,., .... i under the aitieh^.f' \ V K' (^'r'';' /'"'' f-'tcrfa.n.ucnt, .shall be •i"iJic.stie new. voi, wi v' ^ ti.e title of (.rec.an ; foreign and what else I have to SI ' , •^'""> -''"'"-'^'^ Coffee-house, and •-., a,,a,tu.e ;l l''yi .■■''^r'l'''7"''r^ shall be dated fro.'n u.y /«'/'/, .\». 1. l„rs,l„;,. Ai.nl VZth, 1709. CIV. TiiK Ci.iij (,j. The Spant ihe nmiv fh.v ,- > .\ ° "^^ "^ Nature still U'e ire .,,1 l'>^'. and from tl,oir Similitude to other Obieet- Mieha A'ariotvor lie.., ..-Irv ' ''• ""'"Mb...- that hath wbatwocaii.iiw.!!^::!';'^;:;"'^ ^^■^■•""- '^"-^ «^*-i>-i..., iu Ill Optieks. M,..-.. you M.j.^h, .i !HC.:)Vi [ navjofablt pcriment is very common ;i.e \vave.s and Fluctuations ot tbe Water in ...t.o,,.". ■,„(! nnm.M-V' I' ""'" ''T'^ ''"^ J'luctuations of iniature, leap inu' about upon tho Wall. I Diust confess, the Novelty of such a Sight may be one occasion of its Pieas;mtness to tlie Imairination, but cer- tainly the chief Keasuii is its near Resemblance to Nature, as it do.'s not only, like ntlicr Pictures, -j;ivi tiie Colour and Ki_i:iire, but the Motion of the thing's it repre-ients ^ Our British ( ianlen rs. on tii.' contrary, instead of huiuourinj; Nature, love to devinto from it as much .is possibl(\ Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids. We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Hush. I do not know whether I am simiular in my Opinion, imt. for my own part. I would rather look upon a Tree in all its Lnxurianiy and Oiftusion of Bouirhs and Branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed intoa .\[athemitical Figure; and cannot but fiiiicy tliMt an Orcliard in Flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little Labyrinths of the most lini.shed Parterre. Sj'K-fitfor, iVii. 414. (Addison.) lii! it CVI. J.cl any mi" reflect on the Disposition of Mind he finds in himself, at his first Kntranee into the Pnnthioii at Itumr. and how iiis Imagin- atioT' is filled with soinelhing (ireat and Amazing; and, at the same time, consider how littl'', in proportion, he is ;iffeeted with the Inside of a (Intlilcl.- L':itlie(lr;d. tho' it be five times larger than the other- whleh can nrise Irom nothing else, but the Greatness of the Manner in the one, and the Meamuss in the oilier Ainonu; all the Figures in Arehiteeture. there are none that iiave a i;reater Air than the Concave and tho Conve.w . . . ijook upon the Outside of a home, your Eye half surrounds it ; look up into the Inside, and at one Glance you have all the Prospect of it ; the entire Coneavity falls into your Eye at once, the .Sight bein- as the Center that collects and <;ather3 into it the Ivines ol the whole Circumference. — S/icf'ttor. Xi. 415. (Addison). The temple of the Goil of Dullness in //(c /^c_(//o/( of Fulm Wit is Gothic. (6)j"'. No. li;t; Addison.) The following (le.i^ation is taken from the Pajier iiniiiediat ly preceiiing : •• 1 look upc:; .ie>e writers as (.4'>tl(x in Poetry, who, like (hose in Arehiteeture, not being able to eniue up to tlu' lieautifnl .Simplicity of the old Gri,;/:s awi Hoinxud, have endeavoured to >upply its place with all tiie Extravagancies of an irregular i-'aney. CVII. Want of spae^.' prevents the giving of a lengthy extract from The R'ipc (i/ the Lock, which is the typical poem of the fashionable life of tiie period. It reijuires an age like that of Pope to present an heroi- ;omical poem on such a theme. The student is recommended to read the Toilet-scene at the end of the first Canto. Note the use of the word forfex — not scissors — in the following extract, which describes the act that caused such "dire offence," ill 1 .'A ill The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring Forfcx wide 1' inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. ' >.v'n then, before the fatal on' «'»" ^^thei.t, and Inlidels > H ,t be, I admit that we too have had writers of that fn'laT'""';^ "■ ".ade some noise in their day. At present they n-p,." c m lasting oblivion. Who. born within the last forty years h-.s iv- d one word ot Collins, an.l Toland, and Tindal, and Chubb, and Mor-an and tha whole race who culled themselves Freethinkers ? Who now leads Jioim.ubroke; Who ever read him throuuh ? Ask the bookselLr- ^London what is become of all these lights of the world.-Burk. JC'l/kctitms on tlu R<:vuh,tina in France (W-ii^). CIX. In Pope's /,s.sy,.y on Man, traces of the philosophy of Bolin-broko are visible every^vhere. Compare the following: ;Sa>, nrst, of Go,?, ubove or Mm i,7o.. (Hpi.tle 1.) and Bolingbroke, >.«;m..^. .. m^'yJ '7w '>LIII //^,/.^....o. eorthriuake. leak not Meavns design (Kp. I. hue 155) and /^m^. XLIV ; Boio Instinct tones in he;p-ovllu>,,,,rinc, Compar'd, half- reasoning elephant, with ^Ai«e.' (Lp.l., lines 221 222) and Fray. XLII. ^ ^ ' '* SUBJECTS. The French Kevolution and its influence on British thou<'ht Ihe development of feudalism in France and in Fndand— the i-ncyclopfcdia, its aim and place in the progress of thought— tha doc- tnne of Locke-Rousseauism— Voltaire-his attitude-the American War of Independence — A brief oiitiine of tlie course of Eevolution-the Abolition of Privileges-the Fete of Pederation-the Girondins and the Jacobins- Jurke-Tom Pame-Sir James Mackintosh— Burns-Coleridge and fc^uthey-the Pantisocracy- ITa^ Tyler-The Fall of Robespkrre-. Wordsworth— his attitude towards the French Revolution ILLUSTRATIONS. ex. The Encyclopaedia was virtually a protest :i;iainst the old organitia- tion, no less than against the old doctrine, Hioadly .statid, the urcat central moral of it all was this : that human nature is i,'ood, that the world is capable of being made a desirable abidingiilaco, and that the ceticisM) in life and morals, to formalism in art, to abso- lutism in the social ordering, to obscurantism in tliouglit. Every social ituprovement since has bc( n the outcome of that doctrin ■ in one form or another. The conviction that the character and l"t of man arc indefinitely modiBable for good was tin,' indispensable antecedent to any general and energetic endeavour to modify the conditions that sur- round him. The omnipotence of early instruction, of laws, of the method of social order, over the intinit^'ly |)l,istic impulses ol the human creature — this was the maxim which brought men of such widely diflFerent temperament and leanings to the common enterprise. Every- body can see what wide and deep-reaching bearings >uch a doctrine possessed ; how it raised all the (juestions connected with psychology and the formation of character ; how it went down to the very founda- tion of morals ; into what fresh and unwelcome sunlight it brought the articles of the old theology ; with wliat new importance it clothed all the relations of real knowledge and the piacticul arts ; what intense in- terest it lent to every detail of economics and legislation and govern- ment. The deadly chagrin with which churchmen saw the cncyclopa>dic fabric rising was very natural. The teaching of the Church paints man as fallen and depraved. The new secular knowledge claslied at a thousand points, alike in letter and in s\nr\t, with the old sacred lore. Even where it did not clash, its vitality of interest and attrac- tioii drove the older lore into neglected shade. To stir men's vivid curiosity and hope about the earth was to make their care much less absorbing about the kingdom of heaven. To awaken in them the spirit of social improvement was ruin to the most scandalous and crying social abuse then existing. — John Morley. Didcmt. CXI. Op the Different Systems of LEciisLATiON. If wu examine in what consists the supreme good of A< , which ought to be the grand object of every legislature, it will ..ppear to centre in these two points— liberti/ and equality : in liOerty, because all private independence subtracts so mucii force from the body of the state : in equality, because libertij cannot subsist wit! out it. I have already explained the nature of civil lihertij ; and, witli ;l:l c>,H.-cf to C7,yr/.7.ytho word must not bo un.lerstooJ to n.e.m that ' •''•7"' ;"/"> >.onl.ibe Hjunlly divide.l between all bi^' I,?, ,.u.r,. .houhl nev..,- U .0 .stronjr us to bo capable of aets of WoIeJce n i'. ofM T •" ^•'^7^"*"'»'^'---i-''s sruion, and undo ttXcc ti.moftlelaws: .-.nd ihur, in regard to ,■,>/„,; „o citizen slouldb ;;toTuS;:'f ■'■'';. '^=''■''• ^",P"^'^''^^^- --hor.and non" so po r a 1 int.rot ,d I .. in-luT class of men. nnd rop.rss the avarice of tl ■ louor classes. -Jfoussoau. Vuntmf Sn,u,U, Bk. 1>. Cha,,. XI ('All. Tl,eul.ns..s ,-.ttondi-,uMl„. i.-vy of t.x.s vverc l.e,-.vy an.l universal Ihe km.^dom w.s pa.cellcd into .^-neralitios, with an inter dant at te ieuild'T • '"" ^ '"'"'^ ""• "'"•^'^ ''"^^-- «»■ '•- crown w klcu'. te,l ,.r .^..ry ,..,;;• except the military authority; but particu 1. . .tor all atta.rs ol tinune ..-The .oner..li-tie,s ^vere sVb-divid^ In^ ;;;..s we 1., ,.,,!::; r;ci:;;:;:h^ t r,iMiu. .sucli an onorn.nu.s power, constantly actin- and from '^'"'•1' "" "':'•. was I, CO, must, in the oaturo of thin.^s de.'J, ^rate i^ -iiiinv ea.ses luto ahsohUe ivraiiuv 'PK """'"^ ut_u)erate in ,.,,.„1„ „., , ,, , '>''"'"} Ihe rori-lts, or po ice of the ul , «er. .-Hmualiy ,h,. run. ..( n.any huudn.l.s of f .r.ner* ; more tlm. ^ud .■■;.■::: 7'^;— . •» '•" tl- 1;... ^,.n ,jy; the nobiii; rT .■ Tl , "»"'''>' •••'^'-•'"Pted f,om /.///A, .-militia and -'-'>. I he pona cod,. ,.| fi„ .„,,, ,..,ke. one shudder a the Z'nor. m^uae., n.ade,,u-.te t.the ciu.e.. A fVw features i S^ ntly cliiir.ictenze the old -nyvrnment of Fnnce : 1. Suiuoj.rs of salt, armed and .sseudded to the number of five in ^./rs.d;;::zr''''^''^'^ '"-.-'o. ,....;„. an the^^ •]()0 l,!l!'!"'7''/'','"'""'^' ^'^■^•■'"l!'^"'. l^u' i" "nmber under iiye, „ fi„e of o. Women. m:ur.ed and>i„do. smu;:;:lers, first ofiV^nce ./^r^i^';)" 100 ,A i lUllii;. Seeonil. ")(|(| livpi /;//• ///; I 'ink Ilu.-'lj'ti'ils il,t iliirliiii 'WwA, l(t,l August: Dignitaries temporal anu spiritual; Peers, Archbishops, I ^Tlument 1 residents, each outdoin« the other in patriotic dcvotedness .nme successively to throw their (utitonablc) possessions on the " altar ot the fatherlan.l." Witli louder and louder vivats, for indeed it is •alter dinner ' too,-they abolish Tithes, Seigniorial Dues, Gabelle, .xcessive Preservation of (Jame; nay. Privilege, Immunity, Feudalism root i,„d branch ; then appoint a T, Ik,,,,,, for it ; and, so. finally, dis- perse about thrie in the morning, striking the stars with their sublime r " 1 r". ' "'»'•'' ""^"'•t''-''*;" l>ut ever nu morable, was this of tie lourth ol Augu.-t 17S!». Miiaeul-.u.s, or semi-miraculous, some seem lu think It. A new Night of Pentecost, shall we say, shnped accord- mg to the new Time, an.l new C'liureh of Jean Jacques Kousseau? It lui.l Its causes; also its effects.— Carlyle. Fn-wh /Cen,h, (;,,». CXIV. TJh Fi'ir ,,/ ti,r F.ihmflnn. The morn ngcomr.s, cold for a July one; but such a festivity would make Grtenlainl smile. Through every inlet of that National Amphi- Micatro (lor it is a lea-ue in circuit, cut with openings at due intervals) t^uods-in the jiving thr.mg; covers without tumult space after space. J he hole Mintaire h.s galleries and overvaulting canopies, wherein ( arpentiy and Painting hav vied, for the Cppc r Authorities : triumphal ■irehes, at tl,.. (.at.- by the JJiver, bear inscriptiens. if weak, yet "ell-meant .aid orthodox. Far aloft, over the Ait,-.r of ihe Fatherland, yn their tallcr