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 1Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1826 - Poetry |
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... sweet , he studied music , and learned to play on the harp , in which he became a great proficient . He was bred in the court of Nasser Ben Ahmed Samani , where he had two hundred slaves , and four hundred camels , to carry his baggage ...
... sweet , he studied music , and learned to play on the harp , in which he became a great proficient . He was bred in the court of Nasser Ben Ahmed Samani , where he had two hundred slaves , and four hundred camels , to carry his baggage ...
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... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness , and the night , Become the touches of sweet harmony . " Now , a foreign translator , of the ordinary kind ...
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness , and the night , Become the touches of sweet harmony . " Now , a foreign translator , of the ordinary kind ...
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... sweet - briars , vines , and honey- suckles ; and that Milton's habitation had the same rustic ornament we may conclude from the lark bidding him good morrow , Through the sweet - briar , or the vine , Or the twisted eglantine : for it ...
... sweet - briars , vines , and honey- suckles ; and that Milton's habitation had the same rustic ornament we may conclude from the lark bidding him good morrow , Through the sweet - briar , or the vine , Or the twisted eglantine : for it ...
Page 142
... sweet , his obser- vations so lively , and his manners so engaging , that his friends delighted in his conversation . He died , much regretted , at the age of forty-- five , in 1718. He was twice married , and had a son by his first ...
... sweet , his obser- vations so lively , and his manners so engaging , that his friends delighted in his conversation . He died , much regretted , at the age of forty-- five , in 1718. He was twice married , and had a son by his first ...
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... sweet book ! the silver image of his gentle wit , and the golden pillar of his noble courage ; and ever notify unto the world , that thy writer was the secretary of eloquence , -the breath of the Muses ; -the honey - bee of the ...
... sweet book ! the silver image of his gentle wit , and the golden pillar of his noble courage ; and ever notify unto the world , that thy writer was the secretary of eloquence , -the breath of the Muses ; -the honey - bee of the ...
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Page 41 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 110 - THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp *, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp,
Page 134 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 134 - As we ascended the hill, the variety of beautiful objects, the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity of the whole scene, gave us the highest pleasure. We at length reached the spot whence Milton undoubtedly took most of his images; it is on the top of the hill, from which there is a most extensive prospect on all sides : the distant mountains that seemed to support the clouds, the villages and turrets, partly shaded...
Page 135 - ... where the sheep were feeding at large ; in short, the view of the streams and rivers, convinced us that there was not a single useless or idle word in the above-mentioned description, but that it was a most exact and lively representation of nature. Thus will this fine passage, which has always been admired for its elegance, receive an additional beauty from its exactness. After we had walked, with a kind of poetical enthusiasm, over this enchanted ground, we returned to the village...
Page 2 - Hill, where he is said to have died of want; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-house, asked him for a shilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful.
Page 96 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 43 - SHALL I like a hermit dwell On a rock or in a cell, Calling home the smallest part That is missing of my heart, To bestow it where I may Meet a rival every day ? If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be...
Page 155 - English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat can row directly across ; and it may in some measure be estimated, from the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows.
Page 41 - Now what is love? I pray thee, tell. It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell.