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 pages |
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... heard of her renown , Who long had advanced for England's fair crown ; He wooed her and sued her his mistress to be , And offer'd rich presents to Mary Ambree . But this virtuous maiden despised them all ; ' I'll ne'er sell my honour ...
... heard of her renown , Who long had advanced for England's fair crown ; He wooed her and sued her his mistress to be , And offer'd rich presents to Mary Ambree . But this virtuous maiden despised them all ; ' I'll ne'er sell my honour ...
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... heard , would not heed him ; Soame Jenyns heard him , heeded him , set him right , and took up his tale where he had left it , without any diminution of its humour , adding only a few more twists to his snuff - box , a few more taps ...
... heard , would not heed him ; Soame Jenyns heard him , heeded him , set him right , and took up his tale where he had left it , without any diminution of its humour , adding only a few more twists to his snuff - box , a few more taps ...
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... heard this man very innocently remark , when Gibbon published his history , that he won- dered any body so ugly could write a book . ' " Such was the exterior of a man who was the charm of the circle , and gave a zest to every company ...
... heard this man very innocently remark , when Gibbon published his history , that he won- dered any body so ugly could write a book . ' " Such was the exterior of a man who was the charm of the circle , and gave a zest to every company ...
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... heard fall from his lips ; these lines I have forgotten , though I believe I was the first person to whom he recited them . They were very bad ; but he had been told , that Johnson ridiculed his meta- physics ; and some of us had just ...
... heard fall from his lips ; these lines I have forgotten , though I believe I was the first person to whom he recited them . They were very bad ; but he had been told , that Johnson ridiculed his meta- physics ; and some of us had just ...
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... heard of George Clif- ford , Earl of Cumberland , or George Abbot , Archbishop of Canterbury , yet none are stran- gers to the names of George Buchanan , George Fox , George Monk , Duke of Albemarle , or the profligate George Villiers ...
... heard of George Clif- ford , Earl of Cumberland , or George Abbot , Archbishop of Canterbury , yet none are stran- gers to the names of George Buchanan , George Fox , George Monk , Duke of Albemarle , or the profligate George Villiers ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.