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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... WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY RICHARD RYAN , AUTHOR OF " POEMS ON SACRED SUBJECTS , ” “ BALLÅDS ON THE FICTIONS OF THE ANCIENT IRISH , " & c . & c . & c . IN THREE VOLUMES . ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS . VOL . II . LONDON : PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD ...
... WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY RICHARD RYAN , AUTHOR OF " POEMS ON SACRED SUBJECTS , ” “ BALLÅDS ON THE FICTIONS OF THE ANCIENT IRISH , " & c . & c . & c . IN THREE VOLUMES . ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS . VOL . II . LONDON : PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD ...
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... written many years before Shakspeare flourished . Lord Buckhurst was assisted in it by Norton , a fellow - labourer with Sternhold and Hopkins . This tragedy was acted before Queen Elizabeth , at Whitehall , by the Gentlemen of the ...
... written many years before Shakspeare flourished . Lord Buckhurst was assisted in it by Norton , a fellow - labourer with Sternhold and Hopkins . This tragedy was acted before Queen Elizabeth , at Whitehall , by the Gentlemen of the ...
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... writing ; which happy fancy brought that grave court into such a laughter , and the poor woman thereupon into such a confusion , that , afterwards , she was either wiser , or was less regarded . " Here , however , the learned High ...
... writing ; which happy fancy brought that grave court into such a laughter , and the poor woman thereupon into such a confusion , that , afterwards , she was either wiser , or was less regarded . " Here , however , the learned High ...
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... writing . These compositions were called Tensons , as it is supposed from the Latin conTENSionem , or jeux - partis ; and the judgments of the court were called les arrêts d'amour . André , the Chaplain , has given us a collection of ...
... writing . These compositions were called Tensons , as it is supposed from the Latin conTENSionem , or jeux - partis ; and the judgments of the court were called les arrêts d'amour . André , the Chaplain , has given us a collection of ...
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... written in Latin , the parties to the cause are merely designated by a quidam , or quædam . We shall give one of the cases , with the decision of the lady - judges , for the edifica- tion of our fair readers , especially those who are ...
... written in Latin , the parties to the cause are merely designated by a quidam , or quædam . We shall give one of the cases , with the decision of the lady - judges , for the edifica- tion of our fair readers , especially those who are ...
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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.