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 3 |
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... spirit of La Fontaine ; -here is nature in her simplicity . What naïveté - what grace ! — Gentlemen , ( resumed Voltaire , ) you will find this Fable among those of La Motte . " Confu- sion took possession of all but Voltaire , who was ...
... spirit of La Fontaine ; -here is nature in her simplicity . What naïveté - what grace ! — Gentlemen , ( resumed Voltaire , ) you will find this Fable among those of La Motte . " Confu- sion took possession of all but Voltaire , who was ...
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... spirit has left its place to politeness . In a short time , it will be impossible for us to conceive of such men as Alfred , or Lord Surrey , James Crichton , or Sir Philip Sidney . The poetry of life is the sublimated essence of human ...
... spirit has left its place to politeness . In a short time , it will be impossible for us to conceive of such men as Alfred , or Lord Surrey , James Crichton , or Sir Philip Sidney . The poetry of life is the sublimated essence of human ...
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... spirit so far as to say , in a voice just loud enough to be heard , that ' Mac Flecno ' was a very fine poem , but that I had not imagined it to be the first that was ever writ that way . ' On this , Dryden turned short upon me , as ...
... spirit so far as to say , in a voice just loud enough to be heard , that ' Mac Flecno ' was a very fine poem , but that I had not imagined it to be the first that was ever writ that way . ' On this , Dryden turned short upon me , as ...
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... ' If thou regret thy youth , why live ? The land of honourable death Is here . Up to the field and give Away thy breath . Awake ! not Greece , she is awake ! Awake ! my spirit . ' " He died on the 19th April , at six POETRY AND POETS . 41.
... ' If thou regret thy youth , why live ? The land of honourable death Is here . Up to the field and give Away thy breath . Awake ! not Greece , she is awake ! Awake ! my spirit . ' " He died on the 19th April , at six POETRY AND POETS . 41.
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... spirit , oppression might bend , but could not subdue . " It has been said , and too often repeated , that Burns , during his latter years , nay , from the very moment of entering into society , gave him- self up to habits of ...
... spirit , oppression might bend , but could not subdue . " It has been said , and too often repeated , that Burns , during his latter years , nay , from the very moment of entering into society , gave him- self up to habits of ...
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Page 163 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent : To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow...
Page 105 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Page 247 - As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, mere wise.
Page 105 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 168 - That would, not cease, but cried still, in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of her watch, and grieved with her child; She rocked it and rated it, until on her it smiled : Then did she say, " Now have I found the proverb true to prove, The falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love.
Page 30 - My ear-rings ! my ear-rings ! he'll say they should have been, Not of pearl and of silver, but of gold and glittering sheen, Of jasper and of onyx, and of diamond shining clear, Changing to the changing light, with radiance insincere — That changeful mind unchanging gems are not befitting well — Thus will he think — and what to say, alas! I cannot tell.
Page 27 - Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay the golden cushion down; Rise up, come to the window, and gaze with all the town.
Page 83 - HAPPY is England ! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own ; To feel no other breezes than are blown Through its tall woods with high romances blent : Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment
Page 247 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 223 - FLUTTERING spread thy purple pinions. Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart ; I a slave in thy dominions ; Nature must give way to art. Mild Arcadians, ever blooming, Nightly nodding o'er your flocks, See my weary days consuming, All beneath yon flowery rocks.