The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... late Duchess of York while she lived with her • 144 Upon her Majesty's new Buildings at Somerset House ... 145 Of a Tree cut in Paper .......... 146 Of the Lady Mary , Princess of Orange ..... 147 Of English Verse ...
... late Duchess of York while she lived with her • 144 Upon her Majesty's new Buildings at Somerset House ... 145 Of a Tree cut in Paper .......... 146 Of the Lady Mary , Princess of Orange ..... 147 Of English Verse ...
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... her Landing ...... 202 The Country to my Lady of Carlisle .. 203 To Phyllis ........ 204 To my Lord of Northumberland , upon the Death of his Lady ........ 205 Page To my Lord Admiral , of his late Sickness 6 CONTENTS .
... her Landing ...... 202 The Country to my Lady of Carlisle .. 203 To Phyllis ........ 204 To my Lord of Northumberland , upon the Death of his Lady ........ 205 Page To my Lord Admiral , of his late Sickness 6 CONTENTS .
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... late Sickness and Recovery .. 207 To Vandyck .......... To my Lord of Leicester ........ To Mrs. Braughton , Servant to Sacharissa .. To my Young Lady Lucy Sidney .. 208 210 211 212 To Amoret To Amoret ....... To Phyllis To my Lord of ...
... late Sickness and Recovery .. 207 To Vandyck .......... To my Lord of Leicester ........ To Mrs. Braughton , Servant to Sacharissa .. To my Young Lady Lucy Sidney .. 208 210 211 212 To Amoret To Amoret ....... To Phyllis To my Lord of ...
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... late cri- tics call alliteration , of using in the same verse many words beginning with the same letter . But this knack , whatever be its value , was so frequent among early writers , that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth century ...
... late cri- tics call alliteration , of using in the same verse many words beginning with the same letter . But this knack , whatever be its value , was so frequent among early writers , that Gascoigne , a writer of the sixteenth century ...
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... late to recal that which had so long been made public , so might it find excuse from his youth , the season it was produced in : and for what had been done since , and now added , if it commend not his poetry , it might his philosophy ...
... late to recal that which had so long been made public , so might it find excuse from his youth , the season it was produced in : and for what had been done since , and now added , if it commend not his poetry , it might his philosophy ...
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admire amazed Amoret appear arms beauty bless'd blood bold born boughs bounty brave breast bright CANTO Chloris Clarendon clouds command commission of array COUNTESS OF CARLISLE courage court Cromwell crown'd dame death delight divine doth Earl of Portland earth EDMUND WALLER eyes fair fame fancy fate favour fear fierce fire flame foes friends give Gloriana glory grace grow hand happy heart Heaven honour hope Jove King LADY Laomedon light live Lord Lord Conway Lucretius mind mortal Muse never noble nobler numbers nymph o'er once Orpheus Panegyric Parliament passion peace Phoebus poem poet poetry praise princes Queen rage reign royal rude Sacharissa sacred shine ship sing smile song soul sweet sword taught tempest thee Theseus Thetis things thou thought tree tremble triumph Twas Venus verse vex'd virtue Waller wind wonder wound youth
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Página 108 - ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.
Página 48 - Contemplative piety, or the intercourse between God and the human soul, cannot be poetical. Man, admitted to implore the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than poetry can confer.
Página 196 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 48 - Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel, the imagination ; but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it ; and such as it is, it is known already.
Página 29 - But combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those, who have long practised perfidy, grow faithless to each other.
Página 137 - From hence he does that antique pile behold, Where royal heads receive the sacred gold: It gives them crowns, and does their ashes keep; There made like gods, like mortals there they sleep; Making the circle of their reign complete, Those suns of empire, where they rise, they set.
Página 133 - Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.
Página 36 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...
Página 207 - The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But, confounded with thy art, Inquires her name that has his heart.
Página 135 - Beneath a shoal of silver fishes glides, And plays about the gilded barges' sides : The ladies angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take : At once victorious with their lines and eyes, They make the fishes and the men their prize.