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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... Aisement The Poet , the Painter , and the Slave Dealer Sir John Davies , and his Wife VOL . II . 387182 A Page . 2 5 .. 6 7 ib . 8 ib . 10 .. 11 12 .. 13 ib . 14 .. ib . Page . Sirventes of the Troubadours 18 Courts of Love.
... Aisement The Poet , the Painter , and the Slave Dealer Sir John Davies , and his Wife VOL . II . 387182 A Page . 2 5 .. 6 7 ib . 8 ib . 10 .. 11 12 .. 13 ib . 14 .. ib . Page . Sirventes of the Troubadours 18 Courts of Love.
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... Courts of Love Palindromes Thomas , the Rhymer Proclamation against Milton Louise Labe Pernette du Guillet 20 .. 27 .. 30 • .. Poetry of Eminent Lawyers .. Poetical Tributes on the Death of Queen Elizabeth Rules for becoming a Poet A ...
... Courts of Love Palindromes Thomas , the Rhymer Proclamation against Milton Louise Labe Pernette du Guillet 20 .. 27 .. 30 • .. Poetry of Eminent Lawyers .. Poetical Tributes on the Death of Queen Elizabeth Rules for becoming a Poet A ...
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... Court of John II . Hayley and Garrick Translators of Homer and Virgil Antiquaries imposed upon by Poets Dante .. Hudibras Dr. Goldsmith Simonides .. Robert Greene's " Orpharion . " Hugbes Peter Pindar .. Gray and Mason Facility of ...
... Court of John II . Hayley and Garrick Translators of Homer and Virgil Antiquaries imposed upon by Poets Dante .. Hudibras Dr. Goldsmith Simonides .. Robert Greene's " Orpharion . " Hugbes Peter Pindar .. Gray and Mason Facility of ...
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... Court of High Commission ; the woman being grown so mad , that she fancied the spirit of the prophet Daniel to have been infused into her body . And this she grounded on an anagram which she made of her name , viz . Eleanor Davies ...
... Court of High Commission ; the woman being grown so mad , that she fancied the spirit of the prophet Daniel to have been infused into her body . And this she grounded on an anagram which she made of her name , viz . Eleanor Davies ...
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... court into such a laughter , and the poor woman thereupon into such a confusion , that , afterwards , she was either wiser , or was less regarded . " Here , however , the learned High - church apologist is mistaken . That detestable court ...
... court into such a laughter , and the poor woman thereupon into such a confusion , that , afterwards , she was either wiser , or was less regarded . " Here , however , the learned High - church apologist is mistaken . That detestable court ...
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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.