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 |
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Pagina 12
... nature , and that the most astonishing superna- tural powers were ascribed to his bones , are cir- cumstances with which comparatively few may be acquainted . A celebrated German prelate , Conrade , Bishop of Hildesheim , has ...
... nature , and that the most astonishing superna- tural powers were ascribed to his bones , are cir- cumstances with which comparatively few may be acquainted . A celebrated German prelate , Conrade , Bishop of Hildesheim , has ...
Pagina 51
... Nature , But the finest specimen of French - English verse is certainly the inscription which M. Girardin placed at Ermenonville to the memory of Shenstone . VOL . I. E This plain stone , To William Shenstone . In his POETRY AND POETS ...
... Nature , But the finest specimen of French - English verse is certainly the inscription which M. Girardin placed at Ermenonville to the memory of Shenstone . VOL . I. E This plain stone , To William Shenstone . In his POETRY AND POETS ...
Pagina 52
... nature makes the whole world kin . " How near does he become to us with his thou- sand touches ! The lustre and utility of intellec- tual power is so increasing in the eyes of the world , that we do not despair of seeing the time when ...
... nature makes the whole world kin . " How near does he become to us with his thou- sand touches ! The lustre and utility of intellec- tual power is so increasing in the eyes of the world , that we do not despair of seeing the time when ...
Pagina 54
... nature , of which he has left us such exquisite pictures . They would take a volume of him in their hands , the most suitable to the occasion ; not to hold themselves bound to sit down and read it , if the original work of nature should ...
... nature , of which he has left us such exquisite pictures . They would take a volume of him in their hands , the most suitable to the occasion ; not to hold themselves bound to sit down and read it , if the original work of nature should ...
Pagina 69
... nature of the part he had to play , and of century ago , this minute writing was a fashionable curiosity . A drawing of the Head of Charles I. is in the Library of St. John's College , Oxford : it is wholly composed of mi- nutely ...
... nature of the part he had to play , and of century ago , this minute writing was a fashionable curiosity . A drawing of the Head of Charles I. is in the Library of St. John's College , Oxford : it is wholly composed of mi- nutely ...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volumul 1 Richard Ryan Vizualizare completă - 1826 |
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...