 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...stibium, Yet we carouse it off. THE LOVERS MELANCHOLY. BY JOHN FORD. Contention of a Bird and a Musician. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...miitations, and the fallowing fable of Strada is given wiih mure than its original force and beauty. ' Men. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempo, bred in me ' Desire of visiting that paradise. • To 1811. fonts Dramatic... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...high, Than mere creations are : to add delight I'll tell ye, how 1 found him. Amet. Pr'ythee do. Men. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign1 d To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...specimen as favourable as any that we can select, of the merit of Ford's versification : • Mtnaphon* Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me • Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...stibium, Yet we carouse it off THE LOVERS MELANCHOLY. BY JOHN FORD, Contention of a Bird and a Musician. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1820 - 594 pages
...imitations, and the following fable of Strada is given with more than its original force and beauty. ' Men. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, b,red in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...completes every thing, and we hope our readers will enjoy with us the concluding from Ford :— Siaiuphon. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came, and... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...contest, between a nightingale and a lutanist; finely imitated from a passage in Strada's Prolusions. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales, Which poets of an elder time have feigned, To glorify their Tempe, bred in me . Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came;... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1824 - 312 pages
...Nightingale, from Ford's Lover's Melancholy. Here it is. Is there in English poetry any thing finer ? " Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Pesire of visiting Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 682 pages
...excellence more high, Than mere creations are : to add delight/ I'll tell you how I found him. Men. Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came; and... | |
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Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting that paradise. To Thessaly I came; and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions, Than the old... 
