Poetry and Poets: Being a Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative to the Poets of Every Age and Nation : Together with Specimens of Their Works and Sketches of Their Biography, Volume 1Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - Poetry |
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... died of want ; or , as it is related by one of his Biographers , by swallowing , after a long fast , a piece of bread which charity had sup- plied . He went out , as is reported , almost naked , in the rage of hunger , and , finding a ...
... died of want ; or , as it is related by one of his Biographers , by swallowing , after a long fast , a piece of bread which charity had sup- plied . He went out , as is reported , almost naked , in the rage of hunger , and , finding a ...
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... died in an alehouse , " which is not inconsistent with the preceding account , as he generally lived in one ; but whe- ther the story of the guinea and the loaf can be introduced with any probability to heighten the poet's distress , we ...
... died in an alehouse , " which is not inconsistent with the preceding account , as he generally lived in one ; but whe- ther the story of the guinea and the loaf can be introduced with any probability to heighten the poet's distress , we ...
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... died neglected . IRISH BARDS IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH . THE character of the Bard , once so deservedly reverenced in Ireland , began to sink into con- tempt in the reign of Elizabeth . The following is Spenser's animated description of ...
... died neglected . IRISH BARDS IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH . THE character of the Bard , once so deservedly reverenced in Ireland , began to sink into con- tempt in the reign of Elizabeth . The following is Spenser's animated description of ...
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... died , not bewailed of many , but made many wail when he died , that dearly bought his death . " " I have caused divers of these poems , " he concludes , " to be translated to me , that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured ...
... died , not bewailed of many , but made many wail when he died , that dearly bought his death . " " I have caused divers of these poems , " he concludes , " to be translated to me , that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured ...
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... died very aged , in London , in 1580 ( ? ) and was buried in Saint Mildred's Church , in the Poultry . Some of these circumstances , with many others of less consequence , are related by him- self , in one of his pieces , entitled " The ...
... died very aged , in London , in 1580 ( ? ) and was buried in Saint Mildred's Church , in the Poultry . Some of these circumstances , with many others of less consequence , are related by him- self , in one of his pieces , entitled " The ...
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Page 161 - 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...
Page 41 - 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!
Page 153 - By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies.
Page 255 - 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.
Page 39 - This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his life became in danger.
Page 133 - 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 Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 134 - 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...
Page 110 - 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 firefly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. " And her firefly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of Death is near...
Page 135 - ... 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...
Page 205 - 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