Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and an Essay on English PoetryJohn Murray, 1841 - 716 páginas |
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... Fall of Princes " may also deserve no- tice , in tracing back the thread of our national poetry , as it is more likely than any other English production to have suggested to Lord Sackville the idea of his " Mirror for Magis- trates ...
... Fall of Princes " may also deserve no- tice , in tracing back the thread of our national poetry , as it is more likely than any other English production to have suggested to Lord Sackville the idea of his " Mirror for Magis- trates ...
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... fall , Some blossom'd , some to bloom , Like gorgeous hangings on the wall Of some rich princely room . * * * * There , in perpetual summer shade , Apollo's prophets sit , Among the flowers that never fade , But flourish like their wit ...
... fall , Some blossom'd , some to bloom , Like gorgeous hangings on the wall Of some rich princely room . * * * * There , in perpetual summer shade , Apollo's prophets sit , Among the flowers that never fade , But flourish like their wit ...
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... fall into a swound ; And stooping down to raise her from the ground , He puts his herb into his mouth , whose taste Soon changed his mind : he lifts her - but in vain , His hands fell off , and she fell down again : With that she lent ...
... fall into a swound ; And stooping down to raise her from the ground , He puts his herb into his mouth , whose taste Soon changed his mind : he lifts her - but in vain , His hands fell off , and she fell down again : With that she lent ...
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... fall in with a notice of Arthur Golding in a Museum MS . of orders made on peti- tions to the Privy Council from 1605 to 1616 . " No par ticulars , " says Mr. Collier , " of the life of Golding have been recovered . He does not appear ...
... fall in with a notice of Arthur Golding in a Museum MS . of orders made on peti- tions to the Privy Council from 1605 to 1616 . " No par ticulars , " says Mr. Collier , " of the life of Golding have been recovered . He does not appear ...
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... fall and I to die , Sens ‡ she is went , that wont was us to gie§ . The two best of Chaucer's allegories , The Flower and the Leaf , and the House of Fame , have been fortunately perpetuated in our lan- guage ; the former by Dryden ...
... fall and I to die , Sens ‡ she is went , that wont was us to gie§ . The two best of Chaucer's allegories , The Flower and the Leaf , and the House of Fame , have been fortunately perpetuated in our lan- guage ; the former by Dryden ...
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Aret beauty behold Ben Jonson blood Born breast breath bright Canterbury Tales Cham charms Chaucer CLEORA Clovis court dear death delight Died dost doth earth English eyes fair fame fancy fate father fear flame genius give grace grief hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Hengo honour hope Hudibras king lady language Layamon Leosthenes light live look Lord Lubberkin maid Massinissa Metis mind Mirror for Magistrates Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion pity pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise pride prince queen racter rise Rodmond round Saxon scene Scotland seem'd shade Shakspeare shine sight sing smile soft song sorrow soul spirit sweet taste tears tell thee thine things thou art thought trembling truth Twas unto verse virtue wanton whilst wind wretched youth
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Página 307 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 339 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 259 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Página 266 - Proclaim the ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's pearl upon our coast; And in these rocks for us did frame A temple where to sound His name. Oh! let our voice His praise exalt Till it arrive at Heaven's vault, Which then perhaps rebounding may Echo beyond the Mexique bay!
Página 259 - Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página lxxxvii - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 232 - To Daffodils Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 306 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out, its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.
Página 75 - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes. Were an all-eating shame and thriftless "praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer ' This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse...
Página lxi - He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him...