| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 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 ;... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...shall present only the following pasCONTENTION OF A BIRD AND A MUSICIAN. Menaplum and Ametltus. 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 living private,... | |
| Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...Nightingale : the tale on which it is founded is familiar to all classical readers : — "ˇfenaphon. 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 Theesaly I came, and... | |
| William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...anything elsewhere to be found in our drama.* * JOHN FORD. From the Play of " The Zover'i Melancholy." 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... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - Art, Greek - 1853 - 614 pages
...to lend their eloquence to the silent epitaphs. We leave Larissa and proceed eastward: — " Passins from Italy to Greece, the tales Which Poets of an elder time have feigned To glorify their TEMPE, bred ia me Desire of visiting that Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...thoughts, delightful associations, awoke as I listened ; and almost unconsciously I repeated to myself the beautiful story of the Lutist and the Nightingale,...Melancholy.' Here it is. Is there in English poetry anything finer ? Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an older time have feign'd... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...anything elsewhere to be found in our drama.* • JOHN FORD. From the Play of " The Lover's Melancholy," 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... | |
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...Yet we carouse it off ! THE LOVER'S 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... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...the Nightingale, from Ford's ' Lover's Melancholy.' Here it is. Is there in English poetry anything finer ? Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales 'Which poets of an older time have feign'd To glorify their temple, bred ill me Desire of visiting paradise. To Thessaly... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS, THE LOVER'S 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 living private.... | |
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