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 2Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - 292 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... Acrostics Soame Jenyns Churchill Poetry of Avery , alias Bridgman , the Pirate Dr. John Leyden .. Singular Dedications of Poems Poetic Highwaymau .. Dramatic Poets readers of their own Works Dryden .. Colley Cibber Rowe Thomson Congreve ...
... Acrostics Soame Jenyns Churchill Poetry of Avery , alias Bridgman , the Pirate Dr. John Leyden .. Singular Dedications of Poems Poetic Highwaymau .. Dramatic Poets readers of their own Works Dryden .. Colley Cibber Rowe Thomson Congreve ...
Pagina 15
... Acrostic Hymns , " in praise of the Queen . It has been observed as a singular circumstance , that at twenty - five years of age he wrote a poem on the Immortality of the Soul ; and at fifty- two , when a judge and a statesman , another ...
... Acrostic Hymns , " in praise of the Queen . It has been observed as a singular circumstance , that at twenty - five years of age he wrote a poem on the Immortality of the Soul ; and at fifty- two , when a judge and a statesman , another ...
Pagina 59
... ACROSTICS . ONE " Mistress Mary Fage , " who flourished in the time of Charles I. , was , perhaps , the most prolific anagrammatist England ever produced . She published a whole book of anagrams and acrostics , under the title of ...
... ACROSTICS . ONE " Mistress Mary Fage , " who flourished in the time of Charles I. , was , perhaps , the most prolific anagrammatist England ever produced . She published a whole book of anagrams and acrostics , under the title of ...
Pagina 60
... acrostic . The following may serve as a specimen of her manner . " To the Right Hon . John , Earl of Weymes , Lord Weymes . I John Weymes . Anagramma- Shew men joy . n your great honour , free from all alloy , O truly noble Weymes , you ...
... acrostic . The following may serve as a specimen of her manner . " To the Right Hon . John , Earl of Weymes , Lord Weymes . I John Weymes . Anagramma- Shew men joy . n your great honour , free from all alloy , O truly noble Weymes , you ...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 2 Richard Ryan Volledige weergave - 1826 |
Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 2 Richard Ryan Volledige weergave - 1826 |
Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 2 Richard Ryan Volledige weergave - 1826 |
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Pagina 151 - The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For, having lost but...
Pagina 253 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Pagina 151 - But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
Pagina 133 - THOU Eternal One ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight : Thou only God ! there is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! Mighty One ! Whom none can comprehend, and none explore...
Pagina 256 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And darkness was under his feet.
Pagina 11 - Our Tragedies and Comedies (not without cause cried out against), observing rules neither of honest civility nor of skilful Poetry, excepting Gorboduc (again, I say, of those that I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of Poesy...
Pagina 197 - Io ne potrò toccare , e non e' è un cane Che mi tolga al mio stato miserando. La mia povera madre non ha pane, Se non da me , ed io non ho danaro Da mantenerla almeno per domane.
Pagina 194 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Pagina 242 - With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts at deep midnight the torches are gleaming ; In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming ; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a chief of the people should fall.
Pagina 227 - To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.