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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... seem as if the better cause has the weaker advocates . The modest epitaph which Grotius wrote for himself covers his remains at Delft : " Grotius hic Hugo est , Batavum captivus et exul . Legatus regni , Suecia magna , tui . ” His ...
... seem as if the better cause has the weaker advocates . The modest epitaph which Grotius wrote for himself covers his remains at Delft : " Grotius hic Hugo est , Batavum captivus et exul . Legatus regni , Suecia magna , tui . ” His ...
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... seem hardly worthy of his astonishing reputation . His son Pieter de Groot was a more successful Dutch It poet than his illustrious father . A single spe- cimen may be allowed to intrude , if it were only that it is the production of ...
... seem hardly worthy of his astonishing reputation . His son Pieter de Groot was a more successful Dutch It poet than his illustrious father . A single spe- cimen may be allowed to intrude , if it were only that it is the production of ...
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... seem , and not as they can be demonstrated to be . Professional avocations are entirely at variance with the phantasms of imagination . It is theore- tically a fine thing , ( for instance , ) to make the practice of law a profession ...
... seem , and not as they can be demonstrated to be . Professional avocations are entirely at variance with the phantasms of imagination . It is theore- tically a fine thing , ( for instance , ) to make the practice of law a profession ...
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... . But oh ! in every mortal pang That rends my soul from life , 1 That soul , which seems on you to hang , Through each convulsive strife ; — Even now with agonizing grasp Of sorrow and regret , 223 POETRY AND POETS .
... . But oh ! in every mortal pang That rends my soul from life , 1 That soul , which seems on you to hang , Through each convulsive strife ; — Even now with agonizing grasp Of sorrow and regret , 223 POETRY AND POETS .
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... seems to slumber in the arms of death . Awake , my child ! —I tremble with affright ! — Awaken ! -Fatal thought , thou art no more- My child ! one moment gaze upon the light , And e'en with thy repose my life restore . Blest error ...
... seems to slumber in the arms of death . Awake , my child ! —I tremble with affright ! — Awaken ! -Fatal thought , thou art no more- My child ! one moment gaze upon the light , And e'en with thy repose my life restore . Blest error ...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 3 Richard Ryan Visualização completa - 1826 |
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Página 163 - 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...
Página 105 - 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 247 - 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 cancell'd; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, mere wise.
Página 105 - 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 168 - That would, not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child; She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say, " Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.
Página 30 - My ear-rings ! my ear-rings ! he'll say they should have been, Not of pearl and of silver, but of gold and glittering sheen, Of jasper and of onyx, and of diamond shining clear, Changing to the changing light, with radiance insincere — That changeful mind unchanging gems are not befitting well — Thus will he think — and what to say, alas! I cannot tell.
Página 27 - Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay the golden cushion down; Rise up, come to the window, and gaze with all the town.
Página 83 - 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 247 - 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.
Página 223 - FLUTTERING spread thy purple pinions. Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart ; I a slave in thy dominions ; Nature must give way to art. Mild Arcadians, ever blooming, Nightly nodding o'er your flocks, See my weary days consuming, All beneath yon flowery rocks.