Lectures On English Literature From Chaucer to Tennyson
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P. 20S, ) it is said, " Dr. Watson, having consulted on all things with Mr. Clarkson and his father, resigned the patient to them, and ISC LKCTU>RE FOURTH. One of the orightest dreams that poet ever fashioned out of shadowy imaginings, is the allegory, " The Flower and the Leaf, " with its beautiful moral, and an exuberance of fancy seldom met with out of the region of early poetry. A gentlewoman, seated in an arbour, beholds a great company of ladies and knights in a dance on the grass, which ...being ended, they all kneel down and do honour to the daisy — some to the flower, and some to the leaf; and the meaning thereof is this : " They which honour the flower, a thing fading with every blast, are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honour the leaf, which abideth with the root, not- withstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities, without regard of worldly respects. " The fame of Chaucer rests, however, chiefly on the returned, to London.
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