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, 第 1 卷Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 |
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... learning to sing , their respective pieces ; after which , each was to exhibit his performance in the presence of his majesty . The The third day , the English minstrel announc- ed that he was ready . The troubadour de- clared that he ...
... learning to sing , their respective pieces ; after which , each was to exhibit his performance in the presence of his majesty . The The third day , the English minstrel announc- ed that he was ready . The troubadour de- clared that he ...
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... learning , the integrity , of those two great men , and even of Moret , whom I have ever known to be a man of honour . I do not indeed know , whether M. Lambin said this or not . It is a matter of no consequence ; and on the strength of ...
... learning , the integrity , of those two great men , and even of Moret , whom I have ever known to be a man of honour . I do not indeed know , whether M. Lambin said this or not . It is a matter of no consequence ; and on the strength of ...
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... learning , and early began to compose verses ; and , as his voice was remarkably sweet , he studied music , and learned to play on the harp , in which he became a great proficient . He was bred in the court of Nasser Ben Ahmed Samani ...
... learning , and early began to compose verses ; and , as his voice was remarkably sweet , he studied music , and learned to play on the harp , in which he became a great proficient . He was bred in the court of Nasser Ben Ahmed Samani ...
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... Learning and wit seem'd past my reach ; For who can learn when none will teach ? And wit - I could not buy it . Then come , my friends , and try your skill , You can inform me , if you will ; My books are at a distance : With you I'll ...
... Learning and wit seem'd past my reach ; For who can learn when none will teach ? And wit - I could not buy it . Then come , my friends , and try your skill , You can inform me , if you will ; My books are at a distance : With you I'll ...
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... learning . Though a widow with six children , she contrived to send Robert to a Mr. Rodwell , to be improved in writing ; but , she marrying soon after , he did not continue long with him . His mother had now a second family ; and ...
... learning . Though a widow with six children , she contrived to send Robert to a Mr. Rodwell , to be improved in writing ; but , she marrying soon after , he did not continue long with him . His mother had now a second family ; and ...
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第 161 頁 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
第 41 頁 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
第 110 頁 - THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp *, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp,
第 255 頁 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.
第 134 頁 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
第 134 頁 - As we ascended the hill, the variety of beautiful objects, the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity of the whole scene, gave us the highest pleasure. We at length reached the spot whence Milton undoubtedly took most of his images; it is on the top of the hill, from which there is a most extensive prospect on all sides : the distant mountains that seemed to support the clouds, the villages and turrets, partly shaded...
第 135 頁 - ... where the sheep were feeding at large ; in short, the view of the streams and rivers, convinced us that there was not a single useless or idle word in the above-mentioned description, but that it was a most exact and lively representation of nature. Thus will this fine passage, which has always been admired for its elegance, receive an additional beauty from its exactness. After we had walked, with a kind of poetical enthusiasm, over this enchanted ground, we returned to the village...
第 205 頁 - Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! * Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious " Life
第 96 頁 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
第 43 頁 - SHALL I like a hermit dwell On a rock or in a cell, Calling home the smallest part That is missing of my heart, To bestow it where I may Meet a rival every day ? If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be...