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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... look in vain To see my only hope returning . * * * * Why art thou false to me and love ? ( While health and joy with thee are vanish'd ) Is it because forlorn I rove , Without a crime , unjustly banish'd ? * * Why do I thus my anguish ...
... look in vain To see my only hope returning . * * * * Why art thou false to me and love ? ( While health and joy with thee are vanish'd ) Is it because forlorn I rove , Without a crime , unjustly banish'd ? * * Why do I thus my anguish ...
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... look like the " present deity " of the occasion ; and we have known a very pleasant effect produced by every body's bringing some quotation applicable to him from his works , and laying it before his image , 56 POETRY AND POETS .
... look like the " present deity " of the occasion ; and we have known a very pleasant effect produced by every body's bringing some quotation applicable to him from his works , and laying it before his image , 56 POETRY AND POETS .
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... look about me now : ' Twas only yesterday , they said , I was a silly , silly maid ; - " Tis time to look about me now . The shepherd - swains so rudely stare , I must reprove them , I declare ; This talks of beauty - that of love— I'm ...
... look about me now : ' Twas only yesterday , they said , I was a silly , silly maid ; - " Tis time to look about me now . The shepherd - swains so rudely stare , I must reprove them , I declare ; This talks of beauty - that of love— I'm ...
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... look of a bloodthirsty tyrant , was seen riding through the streets . Groups of weeping females , persons of all ages running away from the in- furiated soldiers , burning and falling houses , and all the scenes of woe that attended the ...
... look of a bloodthirsty tyrant , was seen riding through the streets . Groups of weeping females , persons of all ages running away from the in- furiated soldiers , burning and falling houses , and all the scenes of woe that attended the ...
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... look at Fairfax also , and to add now and then something from him by the way . LORD BYRON AND GOETHE . THE following extract from Goethe offers a novel , at least , if not authentic anecdote , of Lord Byron , and which , among the vast ...
... look at Fairfax also , and to add now and then something from him by the way . LORD BYRON AND GOETHE . THE following extract from Goethe offers a novel , at least , if not authentic anecdote , of Lord Byron , and which , among the vast ...
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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 132 頁 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls...
第 134 頁 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures...
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 139 頁 - Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse.
第 155 頁 - English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat can row directly across ; and it may in some measure be estimated, from the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows.
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 - ... 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 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...
第 115 頁 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.