Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative to the Poets of Every Age and Nation. With Specimens of Their Works and Sketches of Their Biography, כרך 3Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - 305 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 17
עמוד 8
... honoured by this eulogium . He died on the 21st of May , in the year 1647 . His Granida is one of the most beautiful spe- cimens of harmony in the Dutch language ; and the critics of Holland are fond of contrasting the flowing music of ...
... honoured by this eulogium . He died on the 21st of May , in the year 1647 . His Granida is one of the most beautiful spe- cimens of harmony in the Dutch language ; and the critics of Holland are fond of contrasting the flowing music of ...
עמוד 59
... honour as well as pleasure to be associated . If Mr. Crabbe , noticed by so great a man , and received into such a home , should have given way to some emotions of vanity , and should have sup- posed there must have been merit on one ...
... honour as well as pleasure to be associated . If Mr. Crabbe , noticed by so great a man , and received into such a home , should have given way to some emotions of vanity , and should have sup- posed there must have been merit on one ...
עמוד 78
... honour of my family , of which my brother is now the sole representative . " Of the existence even of M. de Surville , we know not whether we ought to doubt , though an accurate memoir is given of him , and an anecdote related of a duel ...
... honour of my family , of which my brother is now the sole representative . " Of the existence even of M. de Surville , we know not whether we ought to doubt , though an accurate memoir is given of him , and an anecdote related of a duel ...
עמוד 81
... she once more visited the place of her birth . In this retreat , she appears to have passed the re- mainder of her life , writing , in her extreme age , verses which would have done honour to the freshest mind POETRY AND POETS . 81.
... she once more visited the place of her birth . In this retreat , she appears to have passed the re- mainder of her life , writing , in her extreme age , verses which would have done honour to the freshest mind POETRY AND POETS . 81.
עמוד 82
... honour to the freshest mind at a much more favourable period . The precise time of her death is not known ; but she lived and composed to her ninetieth year . The poems which are contained in this little volume , are principally poems ...
... honour to the freshest mind at a much more favourable period . The precise time of her death is not known ; but she lived and composed to her ninetieth year . The poems which are contained in this little volume , are principally poems ...
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Addison admired Æneid afterwards Bard beautiful Ben Jonson called Carolan carols celebrated child Christmas Church Commissary composed Davenant death delight died doth Dryden Earl elegant English eyes faithful friends renewing father favourite five pounds Fontaine Gascoigne genius George Gascoigne GEORGE PEELE give grace guineas coin hands happy hath heart Heywood Hindoo honour Iliad JACOB CATS JOHN HEYWOOD Johnson JOSEPH RITSON Khemnitzer King lady lived Lord Lord Halifax merry METASTASIO Milton Moore mounting feathers Muse never noble NONSENSE VERSES o'er Ovid Paradise Lost Peele Petrarch piece Piron play pleasure poem Poet poetical poetry Pope praise priests reader says Shakspeare shew sing smile song sonnets soul specimen Spenser spirit Street sung Surville sweet sword Tarlton taste thee thing thou thought tion took Torquatus translation Vaucluse verses Voltaire wife write written wrote young youth
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עמוד 168 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent : To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow...
עמוד 112 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
עמוד 174 - IN going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept, I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept. She sighed sore, and sang full sweet, to bring the babe to rest, That would not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast.
עמוד 112 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
עמוד 90 - HAPPY is England ! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own ; To feel no other breezes than are blown Through its tall woods with high romances blent : Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment
עמוד 34 - Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay the golden cushion down; Rise up, come to the window, and gaze with all the town.
עמוד 147 - Carron side, I left my father's house, and took with me A chosen servant to conduct my steps; Yon trembling coward who forsook his master.
עמוד 252 - What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid ? ' Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which...
עמוד 242 - One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it.
עמוד 41 - You must have heard," he says, " that I am going to Greece — why do you not come to me ? I can do nothing without you, and am exceedingly anxious to see you. Pray, come, for I am at last determined to go to Greece : — it is the only place I was ever contented in. I am serious ; and did not write before, as I might have given you a journey for nothing. They all say I can be of use to Greece ; I do not know how — nor do they ; but, at all events, let us go.