The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern TimesG. Bell and sons, 1875 - 695 pages |
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... Popes and cardinals , high dignitaries and their secretaries , lawyers and phy- sicians , are found in the roll of ... Pope and a few of our greater poets , and have exercised a most important influ- ence over those who were acquainted ...
... Popes and cardinals , high dignitaries and their secretaries , lawyers and phy- sicians , are found in the roll of ... Pope and a few of our greater poets , and have exercised a most important influ- ence over those who were acquainted ...
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... Pope . In his writings we per- petually discover some elegant epigrammatic turn ; satire so polished , that it cannot offend ; and humour so delicate , that it satisfies the most fastidious . But epitaphs may be considered Pope's ...
... Pope . In his writings we per- petually discover some elegant epigrammatic turn ; satire so polished , that it cannot offend ; and humour so delicate , that it satisfies the most fastidious . But epitaphs may be considered Pope's ...
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... Pope's epitaphs display or fall short of the requirements of this style of composition ? First , with regard to the name of the dead . His inscrip- tions have been satirically called " Epitaphs to be let , " because he constantly omits ...
... Pope's epitaphs display or fall short of the requirements of this style of composition ? First , with regard to the name of the dead . His inscrip- tions have been satirically called " Epitaphs to be let , " because he constantly omits ...
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... Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak . Oh ! let thy once - lov'd friend inscribe thy store , And with a father's sorrows mix his own . Pope's finest epitaph , because the noblest memorial of God - given intellect in the fewest ...
... Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak . Oh ! let thy once - lov'd friend inscribe thy store , And with a father's sorrows mix his own . Pope's finest epitaph , because the noblest memorial of God - given intellect in the fewest ...
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... Pope in the translation of Homer , is good of its kind : Pope came off clean with Homer ; but they say Broome went before , and kindly swept the way . But , perhaps , the most elegant distich of this character is Lord Erskine's ...
... Pope in the translation of Homer , is good of its kind : Pope came off clean with Homer ; but they say Broome went before , and kindly swept the way . But , perhaps , the most elegant distich of this character is Lord Erskine's ...
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afterwards Anacreon Anon Antipater of Sidon ascribed beauty Ben Jonson Bishop Book born breath Cambridge celebrated Charles charms Collection of Poems Cupid dead dear death Delitiæ Delitiarum died distich doth Duke Dunciad Earl edition elegant English Epigrammatists epitaph eyes fair fame fate flourished B.C. following epigram Foundling Hospital French Gentleman's Magazine give grace grave Greek Anthology Greek epigram hath heart heaven honour Horace Walpole inscription Jacobs James James Wright John Johnson King Lady Latin Leonidas of Tarentum lines live London Lord lover Martial Meleager monument Muses ne'er never Nichols Notes and Queries o'er Oxford poet Poetical poetry Pope praise Queen rose satire says Select Epigrams Shakespeare sleep smile soul stanza sweet tears tell thee thine Thomas thou thought tomb Translated Venus verses wife William write written wrote young
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Page 561 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 34 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
Page 267 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 191 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 213 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 16 - Romeo : and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 166 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 50 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 126 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 218 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.