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 - 292 頁 |
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... never been denied , whatever im- mediate cause might bring him to the grave . " Pope's account of Otway's death was first re- lated by Dr. Warton , in the notes to his " Essay on Pope , " and in the following words : " Ot- had an ...
... never been denied , whatever im- mediate cause might bring him to the grave . " Pope's account of Otway's death was first re- lated by Dr. Warton , in the notes to his " Essay on Pope , " and in the following words : " Ot- had an ...
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... never eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging in a cabin under his mantle , but used commonly to keep others wak- ing to defend their lives , and did light his can- dle at the flames of ...
... never eat his meat before he had won it with his sword ; that he lay not all night slugging in a cabin under his mantle , but used commonly to keep others wak- ing to defend their lives , and did light his can- dle at the flames of ...
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... never failed to send , immediately , all that was demanded . " The poor bookseller declared , that " Monsieur de Voltaire had ne- ver given more than ten pounds , at the same time informing him , that he could not prevail on Lord ...
... never failed to send , immediately , all that was demanded . " The poor bookseller declared , that " Monsieur de Voltaire had ne- ver given more than ten pounds , at the same time informing him , that he could not prevail on Lord ...
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... never change , a thing most strange , And kept in sight her course aright , And compas trew . Tusser wrote , during his residence at Rat- wood , in Sussex , a work in rhyme entitled A Hundreth good pointes of Husbandrie , which was ...
... never change , a thing most strange , And kept in sight her course aright , And compas trew . Tusser wrote , during his residence at Rat- wood , in Sussex , a work in rhyme entitled A Hundreth good pointes of Husbandrie , which was ...
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... , he applied for the arrears of his own pension , for the sake of his family , he desired his son to ask for those that had been due to Boileau for some time . " We must never be separated , " said he 38 POETRY AND POETS . Cowper Racine.
... , he applied for the arrears of his own pension , for the sake of his family , he desired his son to ask for those that had been due to Boileau for some time . " We must never be separated , " said he 38 POETRY AND POETS . Cowper Racine.
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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...