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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... had made for the History , were burnt in a fire which happened at M. Valencour's house . VOL . II . B had once ordered him to attend him to a siege. RACINE , in conjunction with Boileau , was ap- pointed Historiographer to Louis XIV . * ...
... had made for the History , were burnt in a fire which happened at M. Valencour's house . VOL . II . B had once ordered him to attend him to a siege. RACINE , in conjunction with Boileau , was ap- pointed Historiographer to Louis XIV . * ...
Pagina 2
... attend him to a siege that was carrying on in Flanders . Racine , how- ever , remained at Versailles , and when the King , on his return , expressed his surprise at it , and told him it was by no means a journey of any length : " Very ...
... attend him to a siege that was carrying on in Flanders . Racine , how- ever , remained at Versailles , and when the King , on his return , expressed his surprise at it , and told him it was by no means a journey of any length : " Very ...
Pagina 12
... attending and enjoying the vicissitudes of their speculations . At length , however , he was observed to become exceedingly agitated he walked round the table , and up and down , with a disturbed air . Mr. Bunbury , one of the gamesters ...
... attending and enjoying the vicissitudes of their speculations . At length , however , he was observed to become exceedingly agitated he walked round the table , and up and down , with a disturbed air . Mr. Bunbury , one of the gamesters ...
Pagina 49
... attending , Claims a moment for her own . I know her by her robe of mourning , I know her by her faded light , When , faithful with the gloom returning , She comes to bid a sad Good night ! Oh ! let me hear , with bosom swelling ...
... attending , Claims a moment for her own . I know her by her robe of mourning , I know her by her faded light , When , faithful with the gloom returning , She comes to bid a sad Good night ! Oh ! let me hear , with bosom swelling ...
Pagina 70
... attend on my fate . Then away from this frigid and temperate zone , To one that's more torrid you'll find I am gone , With a hundred and fifty brave sparks of this age , Who are fully resolv'd their foes to engage . Those northern ...
... attend on my fate . Then away from this frigid and temperate zone , To one that's more torrid you'll find I am gone , With a hundred and fifty brave sparks of this age , Who are fully resolv'd their foes to engage . Those northern ...
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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.