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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... have marked the character and conversation of Sir Thomas More . The following , however , which Warton thinks there is some reason to attribute to his pen , affords , perhaps , the first specimen of pointed epigram POETRY AND POETS . 43.
... have marked the character and conversation of Sir Thomas More . The following , however , which Warton thinks there is some reason to attribute to his pen , affords , perhaps , the first specimen of pointed epigram POETRY AND POETS . 43.
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... conversation was characterised . " A disagreement about a name or a date , ” says Cumberland , " will mar the best story that was ever put together . Sir Joshua Reynolds luckily could not hear an interrupter of this sort ; Johnson would ...
... conversation was characterised . " A disagreement about a name or a date , ” says Cumberland , " will mar the best story that was ever put together . Sir Joshua Reynolds luckily could not hear an interrupter of this sort ; Johnson would ...
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... conversation , that I should visit him upon no other footing than that of a gentleman who led a life of plainness and simplicity . I answered , that , had he been so unfortunate as to be a mere gentleman , I should never have come to ...
... conversation , that I should visit him upon no other footing than that of a gentleman who led a life of plainness and simplicity . I answered , that , had he been so unfortunate as to be a mere gentleman , I should never have come to ...
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... conversation , his Majesty asked , how he liked the picture that hung there ? " Sir , " said Waller , " my eyes are so dim that I cannot see it . " - " It is the Prin- cess of Orange , " said the King . " And the Princess of Orange ...
... conversation , his Majesty asked , how he liked the picture that hung there ? " Sir , " said Waller , " my eyes are so dim that I cannot see it . " - " It is the Prin- cess of Orange , " said the King . " And the Princess of Orange ...
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... conversation was lively and general ; a new appointment was made , in private , by the Manager , before Hayley and his friend withdrew , that they should both breakfast with him again on the Tuesday fol- lowing , and settle all ...
... conversation was lively and general ; a new appointment was made , in private , by the Manager , before Hayley and his friend withdrew , that they should both breakfast with him again on the Tuesday fol- lowing , and settle all ...
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Page 253 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
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 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. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
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 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 194 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
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 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.