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 74
... feelings on the subject of his exile from his home and country , are well depicted in the following beautiful little poem . " " ODE TO AN INDIAN GOLD COIN . Written in Chéricál , Malabar . Slave of the dark and dirty mine ! What vanity ...
... feelings on the subject of his exile from his home and country , are well depicted in the following beautiful little poem . " " ODE TO AN INDIAN GOLD COIN . Written in Chéricál , Malabar . Slave of the dark and dirty mine ! What vanity ...
Pagina 77
... feeling of the heart , That bind us closer to our native soil , And make it death from those we love to part . ' Tis songs like thine that make each rugged wild , And barren heath , to Scotia's sons more dear Than scenes o'er which fond ...
... feeling of the heart , That bind us closer to our native soil , And make it death from those we love to part . ' Tis songs like thine that make each rugged wild , And barren heath , to Scotia's sons more dear Than scenes o'er which fond ...
Pagina 80
... feeling of the author , who , 66 " To his most esteemed and beloved Selfe , Dat dedicatque . " Who but some churlish cynic - some growler at the world - some man without a friend to commemorate , could thus proclaim his " selfe ...
... feeling of the author , who , 66 " To his most esteemed and beloved Selfe , Dat dedicatque . " Who but some churlish cynic - some growler at the world - some man without a friend to commemorate , could thus proclaim his " selfe ...
Pagina 108
... feeling were united , in the bosom of Vondel , with a capacity for the more lofty flights of the Muse . " Infant fairest - beauty rarest- Who repairest from above ; Whose sweet smiling , woe - beguiling , Lights us with a heavenly love ...
... feeling were united , in the bosom of Vondel , with a capacity for the more lofty flights of the Muse . " Infant fairest - beauty rarest- Who repairest from above ; Whose sweet smiling , woe - beguiling , Lights us with a heavenly love ...
Pagina 139
... nerve , and true poetic feeling . SULIOTE.SONG OF VICTORY . " ' Twas morn , and the mountain peaks Were visor'd with purple light , When the deep glen rung , And the war shout POETRY AND POETS . 139 John Augustine O'Shea.
... nerve , and true poetic feeling . SULIOTE.SONG OF VICTORY . " ' Twas morn , and the mountain peaks Were visor'd with purple light , When the deep glen rung , And the war shout POETRY AND POETS . 139 John Augustine O'Shea.
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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 253 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
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 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. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
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 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 194 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
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 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.