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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... hope , is not true ; and there is this ground of better hope , that Pope , who lived near enough to be well informed , relates , in " Spence's Memo- rials , " that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed ...
... hope , is not true ; and there is this ground of better hope , that Pope , who lived near enough to be well informed , relates , in " Spence's Memo- rials , " that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed ...
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... hope of joies , I chanced soone to finde a Moone Of cheerfull hew : Which well and fine , methought , did shine , And never change , a thing most strange , And kept in sight her course aright , And compas trew . Tusser wrote , during ...
... hope of joies , I chanced soone to finde a Moone Of cheerfull hew : Which well and fine , methought , did shine , And never change , a thing most strange , And kept in sight her course aright , And compas trew . Tusser wrote , during ...
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... 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 tell- Why pride in woe - why boast of ...
... 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 tell- Why pride in woe - why boast of ...
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... how great an addition the Improvisatore might prove to the hilarity of his entertainments , and , accord- ingly , ordered him to be regularly admitted . With the notion of making the hope of gratifying his gluttony 58 POETRY AND POETS .
... how great an addition the Improvisatore might prove to the hilarity of his entertainments , and , accord- ingly , ordered him to be regularly admitted . With the notion of making the hope of gratifying his gluttony 58 POETRY AND POETS .
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... hope of gratifying his gluttony an incentive to his muse , he was always kept at some distance from the table , and little deli- cacies were occasionally sent him to provoke him to exertion . After he had devoured these with the most ...
... hope of gratifying his gluttony an incentive to his muse , he was always kept at some distance from the table , and little deli- cacies were occasionally sent him to provoke him to exertion . After he had devoured these with the most ...
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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