Curiosities of Literature, Volumen2J. Murray, 1807 |
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... verses in the forms of hearts , wings , altars , and true - love knots ; nor those , not less absurd , who expose to public ridicule the name of their mistress by employing it to form their acrostics . I have seen some of the latter ...
... verses in the forms of hearts , wings , altars , and true - love knots ; nor those , not less absurd , who expose to public ridicule the name of their mistress by employing it to form their acrostics . I have seen some of the latter ...
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... verse were tortured into such fantastic forms , that the trees in gardens were gardens were twisted or mangled into giants , or peacocks , or flower - pots , and obelisks , & c . In a copy of verses " To a hair of my mistress's eye ...
... verse were tortured into such fantastic forms , that the trees in gardens were gardens were twisted or mangled into giants , or peacocks , or flower - pots , and obelisks , & c . In a copy of verses " To a hair of my mistress's eye ...
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... verse , but a different conceit regulated chronograms , which were used to describe dates ; the numeral letters in whatever part of the word they stood were distin- guished from other letters by being written in capitals . Mr. Harris ...
... verse , but a different conceit regulated chronograms , which were used to describe dates ; the numeral letters in whatever part of the word they stood were distin- guished from other letters by being written in capitals . Mr. Harris ...
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... verses which form the songs , He has also introduced an echo in his verses which he contrives shall not injure their sense . This was prac- tised by the old French bards in the age of Marot , and this poetical whim is ridiculed by ...
... verses which form the songs , He has also introduced an echo in his verses which he contrives shall not injure their sense . This was prac- tised by the old French bards in the age of Marot , and this poetical whim is ridiculed by ...
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... Verses called Amphigourie . The word is composed of a Greek adverb signifying about , and of a sub- stantive signifying a circle . The following is a specimen it is elegant in the selection of words , and what the French called richly ...
... Verses called Amphigourie . The word is composed of a Greek adverb signifying about , and of a sub- stantive signifying a circle . The following is a specimen it is elegant in the selection of words , and what the French called richly ...
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Página 483 - Two such I saw what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat...
Página 470 - En vain contre le Cid un ministre se ligue : Tout Paris pour Chimène a les yeux de Rodrigue.
Página 478 - ... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Página 489 - O thou! whose glory fills the ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers! protect my son! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown, Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise the Hector of the future age! So when triumphant from successful toils Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserved acclaim, And say, 'This chief transcends his father's fame.' While pleased amidst the general shouts of Troy, His...
Página 139 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, 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.
Página 460 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Página 461 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página 64 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition ; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
Página 469 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 462 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...