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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... tion of his Chronicle , printed in 1516 , by way of prologues to his seven books , he has given us The seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin , in English Rime ; and , under the year 1325 , there is a poem to the Virgin ; and another on one ...
... tion of his Chronicle , printed in 1516 , by way of prologues to his seven books , he has given us The seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin , in English Rime ; and , under the year 1325 , there is a poem to the Virgin ; and another on one ...
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... tion . The manner , too , in which this was effected is such as to brand with infamy all who had any share in the barbarous transaction . The original conviction , on which , after a lapse of fifteen years , and a virtual , if not legal ...
... tion . The manner , too , in which this was effected is such as to brand with infamy all who had any share in the barbarous transaction . The original conviction , on which , after a lapse of fifteen years , and a virtual , if not legal ...
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... tion , like those of relations whom we love . He has said , in a line full of him , that " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin . " How near does he become to us with his thou- sand touches ! The lustre and utility of intellec ...
... tion , like those of relations whom we love . He has said , in a line full of him , that " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin . " How near does he become to us with his thou- sand touches ! The lustre and utility of intellec ...
第 54 頁
... tion , which renders us incapable of enjoying what is abased by our own familiarity of ac- quaintanceship . About the metropolis , there- fore , there is perhaps not a single rural spot , any more than about Stratford - upon - Avon ...
... tion , which renders us incapable of enjoying what is abased by our own familiarity of ac- quaintanceship . About the metropolis , there- fore , there is perhaps not a single rural spot , any more than about Stratford - upon - Avon ...
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... tion ; elegantly dressed females , the rank and beauty of Rome , of course , decorated the win- dows , and the air ... tion was announced from Gaeta , where the friends of the Abate enjoyed some considera- tion . The 70 POETRY AND POETS .
... tion ; elegantly dressed females , the rank and beauty of Rome , of course , decorated the win- dows , and the air ... tion was announced from Gaeta , where the friends of the Abate enjoyed some considera- tion . The 70 POETRY AND POETS .
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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.