The Feast of the Poets: With Notes, and Other Pieces in VerseGale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815 - 157 pages |
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... versification , -pray give it invention . A fancy like yours , that can play its own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm of its song , Nor put up with notes , that to ...
... versification , -pray give it invention . A fancy like yours , that can play its own part , And clip with fine fingers the chords of the heart , Should draw from itself the whole charm of its song , Nor put up with notes , that to ...
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... versification is not new ; but his successors have found the style of too easy and accommodating a description to part with it ; and readers in general , it must be con- fessed , have more than acquiesced in their want of am- bition ...
... versification is not new ; but his successors have found the style of too easy and accommodating a description to part with it ; and readers in general , it must be con- fessed , have more than acquiesced in their want of am- bition ...
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... versification ; and upon that point I do not hesitate to say , that I re- gard him , not only as no master of his art , but as a very indifferent practiser , and one whose reputation will grow less and less , in proportion as the lovers ...
... versification ; and upon that point I do not hesitate to say , that I re- gard him , not only as no master of his art , but as a very indifferent practiser , and one whose reputation will grow less and less , in proportion as the lovers ...
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... versification I may here give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , Canto 1. St. 14. , is the following passage : - At length they came into a forest wyde , Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full ...
... versification I may here give an amusing instance . In the third book of the Faerie Queene , Canto 1. St. 14. , is the following passage : - At length they came into a forest wyde , Whose hideous horror and sad trembling sound Full ...
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... versification , from the very principle which it wants , -that of contrast ; -they take up a poet for relaxation after their toils , are naturally guided to Pope by the tone of society which is mingled with his more poetical character ...
... versification , from the very principle which it wants , -that of contrast ; -they take up a poet for relaxation after their toils , are naturally guided to Pope by the tone of society which is mingled with his more poetical character ...
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Page 39 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful Ease, and Sweetness void of Pride, Might hide her Faults, if Belles had Faults to hide: If to her share some Female Errors fall, Look on her Face, and you'll forget 'em all. This Nymph, to the destruction of Mankind, Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind In equal Curls, and well conspir'd to deck With shining Ringlets the smooth Iv'ry Neck.
Page 38 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Page 104 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 39 - But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as...
Page 114 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness l6.
Page 114 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 140 - Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa Perfusus liquidis urget odoribus Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro?
Page 134 - Bithynos liquisse campos et videre te in tuto ! o quid solutis est beatius curis ? cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.
Page 114 - Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 141 - Pyrrha, sub antrof cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis? heu quoties fidem mutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora ventis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat nescius aurae fallacis. miseri, quibus intentata nites ! me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo.