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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עמוד 10
... seem as if the better cause has the weaker advocates . The modest epitaph which Grotius wrote for himself covers his remains at Delft : " Grotius hic Hugo est , Batavum captivus et exul . Legatus regni , Suecia magna , tui . ” His ...
... seem as if the better cause has the weaker advocates . The modest epitaph which Grotius wrote for himself covers his remains at Delft : " Grotius hic Hugo est , Batavum captivus et exul . Legatus regni , Suecia magna , tui . ” His ...
עמוד 11
... seem hardly worthy of his astonishing reputation . His son Pieter de Groot was a more successful Dutch poet than his illustrious father . A single spe- cimen may be allowed to intrude , if it were only that it is the production of Hugo ...
... seem hardly worthy of his astonishing reputation . His son Pieter de Groot was a more successful Dutch poet than his illustrious father . A single spe- cimen may be allowed to intrude , if it were only that it is the production of Hugo ...
עמוד 12
... seem , and not as they can be demonstrated to be . Professional avocations are entirely at variance with the phantasms of imagination . It is theore- tically a fine thing , ( for instance , ) to make the practice of law a profession ...
... seem , and not as they can be demonstrated to be . Professional avocations are entirely at variance with the phantasms of imagination . It is theore- tically a fine thing , ( for instance , ) to make the practice of law a profession ...
עמוד 22
... . " But oh ! in every mortal pang That rends my soul from life , That soul , which seems on you to hang , Through each convulsive strife ; - Even now with agonizing grasp Of sorrow and regret , 23 POETRY AND POETS . 22.
... . " But oh ! in every mortal pang That rends my soul from life , That soul , which seems on you to hang , Through each convulsive strife ; - Even now with agonizing grasp Of sorrow and regret , 23 POETRY AND POETS . 22.
עמוד 83
... seems to slumber in the arms of death . Awake , my child ! -I tremble with affright ! - Awaken ! -Fatal thought , thou art no more- My child ! one moment gaze upon the light , And e'en with thy repose my life restore . Blest error ...
... seems to slumber in the arms of death . Awake , my child ! -I tremble with affright ! - Awaken ! -Fatal thought , thou art no more- My child ! one moment gaze upon the light , And e'en with thy repose my life restore . Blest error ...
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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.