The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... poetry was sometimes the employment of his leisure hours . Even at this early period his compositions exhibited not a little of the same stamp and character which marked them so strongly in after life . They were figurative and ...
... poetry was sometimes the employment of his leisure hours . Even at this early period his compositions exhibited not a little of the same stamp and character which marked them so strongly in after life . They were figurative and ...
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... Poetry was now the luxury of his mind . He read with attention all the principal English poets , and became familiar with the writings of Milton and Shakspeare , committing to memory many passages of peculiar excellence . This course of ...
... Poetry was now the luxury of his mind . He read with attention all the principal English poets , and became familiar with the writings of Milton and Shakspeare , committing to memory many passages of peculiar excellence . This course of ...
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... poet's only security for reputation or profit consists in a diligent study of those great models which antiquity has bequeathed to us . Lebrun was much indebted , in the early part of his life , to the friendship of Mr. Louis Racine ...
... poet's only security for reputation or profit consists in a diligent study of those great models which antiquity has bequeathed to us . Lebrun was much indebted , in the early part of his life , to the friendship of Mr. Louis Racine ...
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... poet's tone was now changed . In his rage he compares his wife to the vile daugh- ters of Danaus , who bathed their murderous hands in their hus- bands ' gore . The petty accidents and misfortunes , however , which rouse and depress the ...
... poet's tone was now changed . In his rage he compares his wife to the vile daugh- ters of Danaus , who bathed their murderous hands in their hus- bands ' gore . The petty accidents and misfortunes , however , which rouse and depress the ...
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... Poets should always be hungry and necessitous - Enriched they become lazy and indo- lent , or else present the world ... poet , in a very beautiful discourse , composed on occasion of the assembly of notables , sang the praises of Louis ...
... Poets should always be hungry and necessitous - Enriched they become lazy and indo- lent , or else present the world ... poet , in a very beautiful discourse , composed on occasion of the assembly of notables , sang the praises of Louis ...
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Page 57 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 195 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied...
Page 60 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Page 191 - Adieu, adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land — Good night...
Page 193 - For who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife or paramour ? Fresh feeres will dry the bright blue eyes We late saw streaming o'er. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near ; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.
Page 193 - With thee, my bark, I'll swiftly go Athwart the foaming brine ; Nor care what land thou bear'st me to, So not again to mine.
Page 174 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 69 - The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common grave.
Page 474 - And the swallow's song in the eaves. His arms enclosed a blooming boy, Who listened, with tears of sorrow and joy, To the dangers his father had passed ; And his wife — by turns she wept and smiled, As she looked on the father of her child, Returned to her heart at last. — He wakes at the vessel's sudden roll, And the rush of waters is in his soul.