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, Volume 2 |
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... College Wit Voltaire and Pope Lord Buckhurst's " Gorboduc . " .. Doctor Goldsmith .. The Printer , the Soldier , and the Poet Swift .. Father Aisement The Poet , the Painter , and the Slave Dealer Sir John Davies , and his Wife VOL . II ...
... College Wit Voltaire and Pope Lord Buckhurst's " Gorboduc . " .. Doctor Goldsmith .. The Printer , the Soldier , and the Poet Swift .. Father Aisement The Poet , the Painter , and the Slave Dealer Sir John Davies , and his Wife VOL . II ...
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... , a buck , or d - n my eyes ! Who in his life did little good , And his last words were , ' d - n my blood . " " COLLEGE WIT . He DR . JOHN JEGON , Bishop POETRY AND POETS . 7 Dr Young, and the Rival Booksellers Robert Burns.
... , a buck , or d - n my eyes ! Who in his life did little good , And his last words were , ' d - n my blood . " " COLLEGE WIT . He DR . JOHN JEGON , Bishop POETRY AND POETS . 7 Dr Young, and the Rival Booksellers Robert Burns.
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... COLLEGE WIT . He DR . JOHN JEGON , Bishop of Norwich , who died in 1617 , was Master of Bennet College , Cambridge . He was a severe governor , yet of a facetious disposition . I will produce an instance while Master of the College ...
... COLLEGE WIT . He DR . JOHN JEGON , Bishop of Norwich , who died in 1617 , was Master of Bennet College , Cambridge . He was a severe governor , yet of a facetious disposition . I will produce an instance while Master of the College ...
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... college , in the year 1774 , wrote a very clever parody on Gray's immortal Ode , entitled , " The Barber ; " and , in his elder days , a light and ingeniously constructed poem , " The Farmer's Vision , " besides numerous pointed ...
... college , in the year 1774 , wrote a very clever parody on Gray's immortal Ode , entitled , " The Barber ; " and , in his elder days , a light and ingeniously constructed poem , " The Farmer's Vision , " besides numerous pointed ...
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... father , lately deceased , was an army agent ; and her uncle , a man of distin- guished learning , is Dr. C. Landon , the present VOL . II . H Head of Worcester College , Oxford . Her life can POETRY AND POETS . 99 E L.
... father , lately deceased , was an army agent ; and her uncle , a man of distin- guished learning , is Dr. C. Landon , the present VOL . II . H Head of Worcester College , Oxford . Her life can POETRY AND POETS . 99 E L.
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Page 151 - The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For, having lost but...
Page 253 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 151 - But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
Page 133 - THOU Eternal One ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight : Thou only God ! there is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! Mighty One ! Whom none can comprehend, and none explore...
Page 256 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And darkness was under his feet.
Page 11 - Our Tragedies and Comedies (not without cause cried out against), observing rules neither of honest civility nor of skilful Poetry, excepting Gorboduc (again, I say, of those that I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of Poesy...
Page 197 - Io ne potrò toccare , e non e' è un cane Che mi tolga al mio stato miserando. La mia povera madre non ha pane, Se non da me , ed io non ho danaro Da mantenerla almeno per domane.
Page 194 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 242 - With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts at deep midnight the torches are gleaming ; In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming ; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a chief of the people should fall.
Page 227 - To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.