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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... sent for the man , and asked him some questions respecting his poetical talents , which the other modestly disclaimed , saying , that he wrote only for his bell . The next day being the 5th of November , the Dean insisted upon it that ...
... sent for the man , and asked him some questions respecting his poetical talents , which the other modestly disclaimed , saying , that he wrote only for his bell . The next day being the 5th of November , the Dean insisted upon it that ...
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... sent her no token of remembrance or fidelity , though he lacked not the means of transmitting it . " This question occasioned long debates , and it was argued in the court of the Countess of * This was one of the laws of the Court of ...
... sent her no token of remembrance or fidelity , though he lacked not the means of transmitting it . " This question occasioned long debates , and it was argued in the court of the Countess of * This was one of the laws of the Court of ...
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... sent prisoner to Yarmouth ; and if it be not a new offence to make in- quiry where I offended , ( for hitherto my faults are kept as close as my person , ) I am induced to believe , that , next to the adherence to the Royal party , the ...
... sent prisoner to Yarmouth ; and if it be not a new offence to make in- quiry where I offended , ( for hitherto my faults are kept as close as my person , ) I am induced to believe , that , next to the adherence to the Royal party , the ...
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... sent orders on shore for large quantities of the articles demanded . Those were no sooner re- ceived , than Avery restored his hostages to their liberty , who were conveyed to their residence , and the former sailed . On his arrival in ...
... sent orders on shore for large quantities of the articles demanded . Those were no sooner re- ceived , than Avery restored his hostages to their liberty , who were conveyed to their residence , and the former sailed . On his arrival in ...
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... sent the ship adrift . Fortunately for the sufferers , they floated on the coast of India ; where the natives , hearing that the pirates were Englishmen , attacked the different factories , which were saved from destruction by the ...
... sent the ship adrift . Fortunately for the sufferers , they floated on the coast of India ; where the natives , hearing that the pirates were Englishmen , attacked the different factories , which were saved from destruction by the ...
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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.