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 1Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - 292 páginas |
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... almost every one of his Biographers : " Having been compelled by his necessities to contract debts , " says Dr. Johnson , " and hunted , as is supposed , by the terriers of the VOL . I. B law , he retired to a public - house (
... almost every one of his Biographers : " Having been compelled by his necessities to contract debts , " says Dr. Johnson , " and hunted , as is supposed , by the terriers of the VOL . I. B law , he retired to a public - house (
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... supposed cat . " If she return , " thought he , “ I will give her a better reception . " At noon , when he was eating his frugal repast , he perceived , at some distance , a creature sitting , like a monkey , on its hind legs , and ...
... supposed cat . " If she return , " thought he , “ I will give her a better reception . " At noon , when he was eating his frugal repast , he perceived , at some distance , a creature sitting , like a monkey , on its hind legs , and ...
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... supposed himself to be master of 20,0007 . His friends advised him to sell his share ; but he dreamed of dignity and splendour , and could not bear to obstruct his own fortune . He was then importuned to sell as much as would pur- chase ...
... supposed himself to be master of 20,0007 . His friends advised him to sell his share ; but he dreamed of dignity and splendour , and could not bear to obstruct his own fortune . He was then importuned to sell as much as would pur- chase ...
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... supposed that his father , who prized this piece very highly , bestowed on him no very agreeable reward for his pains . Not long after this , black clouds one day an- nounced an approaching thunder - storm . Flashes of lightning began ...
... supposed that his father , who prized this piece very highly , bestowed on him no very agreeable reward for his pains . Not long after this , black clouds one day an- nounced an approaching thunder - storm . Flashes of lightning began ...
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... supposed he was taken with the cramp , because he called out for help , though too late . Thus , the father's calculation proved but too prophetical . CAPTAIN THOMAS JAMES , OF BRISTOL . THE following poems are transcribed from the ...
... supposed he was taken with the cramp , because he called out for help , though too late . Thus , the father's calculation proved but too prophetical . CAPTAIN THOMAS JAMES , OF BRISTOL . THE following poems are transcribed from the ...
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Página 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!
Página 132 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls...
Página 134 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures...
Página 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,
Página 139 - Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse.
Página 155 - English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat can row directly across ; and it may in some measure be estimated, from the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows.
Página 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...
Página 135 - ... 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...
Página 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...
Página 115 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.