The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Volume 2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 pagina's |
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Pagina xv
... should have related to them , I hope if they find them- felves in the Second Alphabet at the end of the Book , they will at least be pleafed with their Company . The The following Introductory Effay is chiefly taken from Rapin , PREFACE ...
... should have related to them , I hope if they find them- felves in the Second Alphabet at the end of the Book , they will at least be pleafed with their Company . The The following Introductory Effay is chiefly taken from Rapin , PREFACE ...
Pagina 17
... tell me why , thou fruitful Virgin Breast , Why should fo good a foil lie unpoffeft ? C Surely * give a collection of Mikellany Poems Lettertisc . by Mr Brown . Pagli tit . Surely fome Champion in the Cause of Love , Has ENGLISH POETS . 17.
... tell me why , thou fruitful Virgin Breast , Why should fo good a foil lie unpoffeft ? C Surely * give a collection of Mikellany Poems Lettertisc . by Mr Brown . Pagli tit . Surely fome Champion in the Cause of Love , Has ENGLISH POETS . 17.
Pagina 77
... should dispute the Beauty of his Miftrefs ; which being accepted , as he had Honourably undertaken , he as bravely per- formed , and came off Victor . For this his appro- ved Courage , the Duke of Florence made him large offers to stay ...
... should dispute the Beauty of his Miftrefs ; which being accepted , as he had Honourably undertaken , he as bravely per- formed , and came off Victor . For this his appro- ved Courage , the Duke of Florence made him large offers to stay ...
Pagina 80
... should remember Death is fure , What grows familiar moft , we best endure ? For Life and Death fucceed like Night and Day , And neither gives Increase , nor brings Decay . We all must pass thro ' Death's dead - Sea of Night To reach the ...
... should remember Death is fure , What grows familiar moft , we best endure ? For Life and Death fucceed like Night and Day , And neither gives Increase , nor brings Decay . We all must pass thro ' Death's dead - Sea of Night To reach the ...
Pagina 102
... should be the more obfcure and in- glorious by it to the rest of the World . He then . defigned it for The Warlike Actions of the old Bri- tih Heroes , and particularly of King Arthur , but his Excellent Pen was referved for a more ...
... should be the more obfcure and in- glorious by it to the rest of the World . He then . defigned it for The Warlike Actions of the old Bri- tih Heroes , and particularly of King Arthur , but his Excellent Pen was referved for a more ...
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The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the ..., Volume 2 Giles Jacob Volledige weergave - 1723 |
The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the ..., Volume 2 Giles Jacob Volledige weergave - 1720 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 198 - 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 today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Pagina 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
Pagina 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Pagina 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
Pagina 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Pagina 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
Pagina 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Pagina 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
Pagina 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.