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, Volumul 1Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - 292 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... in danger several times ; and the first , so early as when he was a child in coats . A wild cow , that was driven by the place where he was at play , struck at him with 8 POETRY AND POETS . Pope's Hair-breadth Escapes.
... in danger several times ; and the first , so early as when he was a child in coats . A wild cow , that was driven by the place where he was at play , struck at him with 8 POETRY AND POETS . Pope's Hair-breadth Escapes.
Pagina 17
... early victims of love were both interred in one grave in Bowes churchyard , over which no stone is laid to commemorate their remarkable affection for each other . Their names are recorded in the parish re- gister with particulars ...
... early victims of love were both interred in one grave in Bowes churchyard , over which no stone is laid to commemorate their remarkable affection for each other . Their names are recorded in the parish re- gister with particulars ...
Pagina 24
... earliest di- dactic poets , in a science of the highest uti- lity , and which produced one of the most beau- tiful poems of antiquity . The vicissitudes of this man's life have uncommon variety and no- velty , for the life of an author ...
... earliest di- dactic poets , in a science of the highest uti- lity , and which produced one of the most beau- tiful poems of antiquity . The vicissitudes of this man's life have uncommon variety and no- velty , for the life of an author ...
Pagina 57
... early to have listened to the whisperings of his art , and ere he quitted his native country had composed a poem of 20,000 verses , called Alexias , in which , as it frequently happens , the author discovered more beauties than were ...
... early to have listened to the whisperings of his art , and ere he quitted his native country had composed a poem of 20,000 verses , called Alexias , in which , as it frequently happens , the author discovered more beauties than were ...
Pagina 124
... early began to compose verses ; and , as his voice was remarkably sweet , he studied music , and learned to play on the harp , in which he became a great proficient . He was bred in the court of Nasser Ben Ahmed Samani , where he had ...
... early began to compose verses ; and , as his voice was remarkably sweet , he studied music , and learned to play on the harp , in which he became a great proficient . He was bred in the court of Nasser Ben Ahmed Samani , where he had ...
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Poetry and Poets: Being a Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes ..., Volumul 1 Richard Ryan Vizualizare completă - 1826 |
Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volumul 1 Richard Ryan Vizualizare completă - 1826 |
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Pagina 161 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Pagina 41 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Pagina 110 - THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp *, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp,
Pagina 255 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.
Pagina 134 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Pagina 134 - As we ascended the hill, the variety of beautiful objects, the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity of the whole scene, gave us the highest pleasure. We at length reached the spot whence Milton undoubtedly took most of his images; it is on the top of the hill, from which there is a most extensive prospect on all sides : the distant mountains that seemed to support the clouds, the villages and turrets, partly shaded...
Pagina 135 - ... where the sheep were feeding at large ; in short, the view of the streams and rivers, convinced us that there was not a single useless or idle word in the above-mentioned description, but that it was a most exact and lively representation of nature. Thus will this fine passage, which has always been admired for its elegance, receive an additional beauty from its exactness. After we had walked, with a kind of poetical enthusiasm, over this enchanted ground, we returned to the village...
Pagina 205 - Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! * Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious " Life
Pagina 96 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Pagina 43 - SHALL I like a hermit dwell On a rock or in a cell, Calling home the smallest part That is missing of my heart, To bestow it where I may Meet a rival every day ? If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be...