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Pagina 8
... poetic fire seems then to have left him ; and the saint was celebrated with less éclat than the disorder . HOAXING . * MR . EDITOR , IN a late number of your very entertaining magazine , you gave an account of a curious HOAX on Mr ...
... poetic fire seems then to have left him ; and the saint was celebrated with less éclat than the disorder . HOAXING . * MR . EDITOR , IN a late number of your very entertaining magazine , you gave an account of a curious HOAX on Mr ...
Pagina 14
... poets ; which was afterwards brought to perfection by Guittone d'Arezzo . The arrangement of the rhymes has varied in some degree at different periods , and even the number of lines has undergone some change ; but at present they may be ...
... poets ; which was afterwards brought to perfection by Guittone d'Arezzo . The arrangement of the rhymes has varied in some degree at different periods , and even the number of lines has undergone some change ; but at present they may be ...
Pagina 15
... poets have fallen with respect to this poem . A sonneteer is considered as a term of reproach , synony- mous with rhymer , or scribbler of verses . Doctor Johnson considers the sonnet as " not very suitable to the English lan- guage ...
... poets have fallen with respect to this poem . A sonneteer is considered as a term of reproach , synony- mous with rhymer , or scribbler of verses . Doctor Johnson considers the sonnet as " not very suitable to the English lan- guage ...
Pagina 16
... poets , considering , I suppose , that the essence of this poem consists in the number of its lines , has favoured us with a literary novelty --- sonnets in blank verse . Others , and that the greatest number , have presented us with ...
... poets , considering , I suppose , that the essence of this poem consists in the number of its lines , has favoured us with a literary novelty --- sonnets in blank verse . Others , and that the greatest number , have presented us with ...
Pagina 17
... Poet . See below . 2. Sir Christopher Milton , knight , baptized on Dec. 3 , 1615 , at Alhallows church , in London . The father , in a branch of the law , bred this his younger son to the bar . The civil war unsettled the situation of ...
... Poet . See below . 2. Sir Christopher Milton , knight , baptized on Dec. 3 , 1615 , at Alhallows church , in London . The father , in a branch of the law , bred this his younger son to the bar . The civil war unsettled the situation of ...
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Pagina 339 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Pagina 276 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Pagina 337 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Pagina 131 - I did consent; And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wish'd she had not heard it; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man.
Pagina 447 - O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Pagina 194 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
Pagina 336 - tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Pagina 428 - My authority for the opinions which I have declared concerning Mr Francis depends upon facts which have passed within my own certain knowledge. I judge of his public conduct by my experience of his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour. This is a severe charge, but temperately and deliberately made, from the firm persuasion that I owe this justice to the public and...
Pagina 325 - But he is dead, and has left nothing in this world that resembles him.
Pagina 243 - I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.