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 1 |
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... Italy , to the Pro- vost of Hildesheim . - The neighbouring country was then , probably , much infested with serpents , for Virgil found it necessary to confine all the serpents , collected in the vicinity , in a hole , and to shut them ...
... Italy , to the Pro- vost of Hildesheim . - The neighbouring country was then , probably , much infested with serpents , for Virgil found it necessary to confine all the serpents , collected in the vicinity , in a hole , and to shut them ...
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... Italian poem in praise of the Dauphiness of France , containing some thousand verses , written by an Officer , in the space of a foot and a half . * * It is worthy of remark , that this species of " curious idling " has not been ...
... Italian poem in praise of the Dauphiness of France , containing some thousand verses , written by an Officer , in the space of a foot and a half . * * It is worthy of remark , that this species of " curious idling " has not been ...
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... Italian , and making it dull with the burden . The re - publication , in various quarters , of the finer translation by Fairfax , will doubtless help to detach one idea from the other ; but as Mr. Hoole's version has also been often ...
... Italian , and making it dull with the burden . The re - publication , in various quarters , of the finer translation by Fairfax , will doubtless help to detach one idea from the other ; but as Mr. Hoole's version has also been often ...
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... Italian luxuries , he met with a poet , whose ten- dencies were like his own , and who was great enough to render the task of translation ho- norable as well as delightful . He accordingly produced a version of Tasso , which we do not ...
... Italian luxuries , he met with a poet , whose ten- dencies were like his own , and who was great enough to render the task of translation ho- norable as well as delightful . He accordingly produced a version of Tasso , which we do not ...
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... Italian , and Dryden , who , undoubtedly , did so , were both great ad- mirers of Fairfax . Waller professed to have " derived the harmony of his numbers " from him ; and so did Dryden , if a reported speech of his to the Duke of ...
... Italian , and Dryden , who , undoubtedly , did so , were both great ad- mirers of Fairfax . Waller professed to have " derived the harmony of his numbers " from him ; and so did Dryden , if a reported speech of his to the Duke of ...
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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 132 - How 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. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls...
Page 134 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures...
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 139 - Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think; Burke, how to speak; And Beauclerk to converse.
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 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 - ... 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 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 115 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.