The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age : a Series of Anecdotes Intended to Illustrate the Influence which Female Beauty and Virtue Have Exercised Over the Characters and Writings of Men of GeniusSaunders and Otley, 1837 - Women |
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... Lucy Sydney , the younger sister of Sacharissa . It will be allowed that it argues more wit and good nature than love or sorrow ; and that he was resolved that the willow should sit as gracefully and lightly on his brow 22 SACHARISSA .
... Lucy Sydney , the younger sister of Sacharissa . It will be allowed that it argues more wit and good nature than love or sorrow ; and that he was resolved that the willow should sit as gracefully and lightly on his brow 22 SACHARISSA .
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... nature so tender and sensible as yours , " & c . After touching lightly and delicately on the obvious sources of consolation , he reminds her , that her duty to the dead requires her to be careful of herself , and not hazard her very ex ...
... nature so tender and sensible as yours , " & c . After touching lightly and delicately on the obvious sources of consolation , he reminds her , that her duty to the dead requires her to be careful of herself , and not hazard her very ex ...
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... nature suffi- cient to pardon his infirmities . " It was Dryden's misfortune , that Lady Elizabeth had neither one nor the other . Of all our really great poets , Dryden is the one least indebted to woman , and to whom , in return ...
... nature suffi- cient to pardon his infirmities . " It was Dryden's misfortune , that Lady Elizabeth had neither one nor the other . Of all our really great poets , Dryden is the one least indebted to woman , and to whom , in return ...
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... natural : if it was spoken with petulance and bitterness , it de- served the repartee ; if with tenderness and play- fulness , the wit of the reply can scarcely excuse its ill - nature . Addison married the Countess of Warwick . Poor ...
... natural : if it was spoken with petulance and bitterness , it de- served the repartee ; if with tenderness and play- fulness , the wit of the reply can scarcely excuse its ill - nature . Addison married the Countess of Warwick . Poor ...
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... nature , and fortune combined , ever lavished on one of her sex , paid for her celebrity with her happiness : for thus it has ever been , and must ever be , in this world of ours , " où les plus belles choses ont le pire destin . " Her ...
... nature , and fortune combined , ever lavished on one of her sex , paid for her celebrity with her happiness : for thus it has ever been , and must ever be , in this world of ours , " où les plus belles choses ont le pire destin . " Her ...
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Page 344 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 12 - And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crowned, When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Page 8 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 185 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Page 239 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Page 41 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.
Page 299 - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens : Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Page 109 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Page 278 - Why bade ye else, ye powers! her soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes, The glorious fault of angels and of gods: Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Page 121 - O'er that darkness, whence is thrust Prayer and sleep, oft governs lust. She her throne makes reason climb, While wild passions captive lie ; And each article of time Her pure thoughts to Heaven fly : All her vows religious be, And her love she vows to me.