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, Volume 3Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - 305 páginas |
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... Character of a Play - writer 162 .. ib . 164 166 167 172 .. 178 179 .. 180 183 184 185 191 ib . · 195 196 .. 197 202 .. 209 21 216 .. ib . 217 .. 218 220 221 222 Page . Gray .. Sadi , and his Wife Nonsense CONTENTS TO VOL . III .
... Character of a Play - writer 162 .. ib . 164 166 167 172 .. 178 179 .. 180 183 184 185 191 ib . · 195 196 .. 197 202 .. 209 21 216 .. ib . 217 .. 218 220 221 222 Page . Gray .. Sadi , and his Wife Nonsense CONTENTS TO VOL . III .
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... character as a nation . Life has become a scene of every- day experience , of sickness , dullness , and forma- lity ; etiquette has succeeded to simplicity , and ardour of spirit has left its place to politeness . In a short time , it ...
... character as a nation . Life has become a scene of every- day experience , of sickness , dullness , and forma- lity ; etiquette has succeeded to simplicity , and ardour of spirit has left its place to politeness . In a short time , it ...
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... character has been blackened ( without measure and without end ) by the bigoted historians of the Catholic party , merely because she was the mother of Queen Elizabeth . To gratify the ostensible jealousy of the King , who had conceived ...
... character has been blackened ( without measure and without end ) by the bigoted historians of the Catholic party , merely because she was the mother of Queen Elizabeth . To gratify the ostensible jealousy of the King , who had conceived ...
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... character of our worthy Chaplain may easily be collected from this publication - the only memorial of him VOL . III . F which remains , and which is well worthy of the POETRY AND POETS . 51 Sir Walter Scott Henry Teonge.
... character of our worthy Chaplain may easily be collected from this publication - the only memorial of him VOL . III . F which remains , and which is well worthy of the POETRY AND POETS . 51 Sir Walter Scott Henry Teonge.
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... character . What is more certain is , that he took service in Holland , under the gallant William , Prince of Orange , who was then ( in 1572 ) engaged in the glorious struggle which emancipated his country from the iron yoke of Spain ...
... character . What is more certain is , that he took service in Holland , under the gallant William , Prince of Orange , who was then ( in 1572 ) engaged in the glorious struggle which emancipated his country from the iron yoke of Spain ...
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Página 110 - 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...
Página 172 - 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.
Página 110 - 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.
Página 166 - 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; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 88 - 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
Página 250 - 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...
Página 240 - 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.
Página 39 - 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.
Página 157 - In the first it is like a rich soil in a happy climate, that produces a whole wilderness of noble plants, rising in a thousand beautiful landscapes, without any certain order or regularity. In the other it is the same rich soil under the same happy climate, that has been laid out in walks and parterres, and cut into shape and beauty by the skill of the gardener.
Página 274 - All you need do (says he) is to leave them just as they are; call on Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event.