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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 82
עמוד iii
... Verse .. Dryden , and Dr. Lockier Mrs. Mary Tighe Wycherley's Marriage George Boleyn 19 20 .. 21 23 24 Robert Barns Moorish Ballads Death of Lord Byron Sir Walter Scott 26 39 .. .. .. 44 51 Henry Teonge ib . Goldsmith 54 .. The Rev ...
... Verse .. Dryden , and Dr. Lockier Mrs. Mary Tighe Wycherley's Marriage George Boleyn 19 20 .. 21 23 24 Robert Barns Moorish Ballads Death of Lord Byron Sir Walter Scott 26 39 .. .. .. 44 51 Henry Teonge ib . Goldsmith 54 .. The Rev ...
עמוד iv
... Verses of the Duc de Nivernois Love Songs Death of Alfieri .. " Paradise Lost . " Voltaire , and Shakspeare John Keats .. Turlough Carolan Milton's Love of Music Thomas Moore Jacob Cats .. Poetical Genealogy Thomson , and Mallet Haller ...
... Verses of the Duc de Nivernois Love Songs Death of Alfieri .. " Paradise Lost . " Voltaire , and Shakspeare John Keats .. Turlough Carolan Milton's Love of Music Thomas Moore Jacob Cats .. Poetical Genealogy Thomson , and Mallet Haller ...
עמוד v
... Verses written by a Maniac Calamities of Poets Richard Edwards .. Milton's " Paradise Lost . " Harte , and Dr. Johnson 164 166 .. 167 172 178 .. 179 Khemnitzer .. .. 180 Poetry of the Hindoos and the Persians 183 The Earl of Essex ...
... Verses written by a Maniac Calamities of Poets Richard Edwards .. Milton's " Paradise Lost . " Harte , and Dr. Johnson 164 166 .. 167 172 178 .. 179 Khemnitzer .. .. 180 Poetry of the Hindoos and the Persians 183 The Earl of Essex ...
עמוד vi
... Verses Pope's Nurse .. Drinking Cups .. .. Addison , and the famous Duke of Wharton Modern " Flash Poetry . " Lord Byron's " Mazeppa . " . Dryden's " Medal . ” James Montgomery Akenside .. .. .. Page . 224 .. 226 227 235 236 238 .. 239 ...
... Verses Pope's Nurse .. Drinking Cups .. .. Addison , and the famous Duke of Wharton Modern " Flash Poetry . " Lord Byron's " Mazeppa . " . Dryden's " Medal . ” James Montgomery Akenside .. .. .. Page . 224 .. 226 227 235 236 238 .. 239 ...
עמוד 15
... an aptitude for polite letters , that Pope himself bewails " How sweet an Ovid was in Murray lost . " And Judge Blackstone , ere he thought of com- posing his Commentaries on the Laws , wrote verses , POETRY AND POETS . 15.
... an aptitude for polite letters , that Pope himself bewails " How sweet an Ovid was in Murray lost . " And Judge Blackstone , ere he thought of com- posing his Commentaries on the Laws , wrote verses , POETRY AND POETS . 15.
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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.