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, Volum 2Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - 292 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... Labours of a Quill Dr. Johnson's Defence of Milton Waller .. 158 .. ib . 159 · 160 .. .. 161 ib . 162 .. 163 164 .. 166 .. .. 168 169 .. 170 171 172 ib . .. .. 178 ib . .. 179 Shenstone Dr. Young .. 180 182 Bishop Hoadly .. 183 Voltaire ...
... Labours of a Quill Dr. Johnson's Defence of Milton Waller .. 158 .. ib . 159 · 160 .. .. 161 ib . 162 .. 163 164 .. 166 .. .. 168 169 .. 170 171 172 ib . .. .. 178 ib . .. 179 Shenstone Dr. Young .. 180 182 Bishop Hoadly .. 183 Voltaire ...
Pàgina 27
... labour was wasted to less useful purpose , than the Palindromes , or Canorine , or recurrent verses , as they were called , from their reading the same , letter by letter , backwards and forwards . The difficulty , however , of this ...
... labour was wasted to less useful purpose , than the Palindromes , or Canorine , or recurrent verses , as they were called , from their reading the same , letter by letter , backwards and forwards . The difficulty , however , of this ...
Pàgina 77
... labour's toil , That rouse each generous 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 ...
... labour's toil , That rouse each generous 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 ...
Pàgina 80
... labours have been cherished , " and but for whose encouragement they might , perhaps , never have seen the light . How different the feeling of the author , who , 66 " To his most esteemed and beloved Selfe , Dat dedicatque . " Who but ...
... labours have been cherished , " and but for whose encouragement they might , perhaps , never have seen the light . How different the feeling of the author , who , 66 " To his most esteemed and beloved Selfe , Dat dedicatque . " Who but ...
Pàgina 119
... labours of more elaborate composition , to the delassement of ballad - writing ; and the consequence is , that Germany is , at this moment , richer in this spe- cies of literature , than all the rest of Europe ( Spain excepted ) put ...
... labours of more elaborate composition , to the delassement of ballad - writing ; and the consequence is , that Germany is , at this moment , richer in this spe- cies of literature , than all the rest of Europe ( Spain excepted ) put ...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volum 2 Richard Ryan Visualització completa - 1826 |
Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volum 2 Richard Ryan Visualització completa - 1826 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.