The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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... reign . In a time when fancy and gaiety were the most powerful recommendations to regard , it is not likely that Waller was forgotten . He passed his time in the company that was highest , both in rank and wit , from which even his ...
... reign . In a time when fancy and gaiety were the most powerful recommendations to regard , it is not likely that Waller was forgotten . He passed his time in the company that was highest , both in rank and wit , from which even his ...
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... reign after the King's death ; but the King , in opposition to them , had resolved that he should reign even in his life . ' If there appear no extraordinary liveliness in this remark , yet its recep- tion proves the speaker to have ...
... reign after the King's death ; but the King , in opposition to them , had resolved that he should reign even in his life . ' If there appear no extraordinary liveliness in this remark , yet its recep- tion proves the speaker to have ...
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... reign . At the accession of King James ( in 1685 ) he was chosen for Parliament , being then fourscore , at Salt- ash in Cornwall , and wrote a ' Presage of the Down- fall of the Turkish Empire , ' which he presented to the King on his ...
... reign . At the accession of King James ( in 1685 ) he was chosen for Parliament , being then fourscore , at Salt- ash in Cornwall , and wrote a ' Presage of the Down- fall of the Turkish Empire , ' which he presented to the King on his ...
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... . Waller . He un- doubtedly stands first in the list of refiners , and for aught I know , last too ; for I question whether in Charles II.'s reign English did not come to its Preface to the Second Part, in 1690 Page 9.
... . Waller . He un- doubtedly stands first in the list of refiners , and for aught I know , last too ; for I question whether in Charles II.'s reign English did not come to its Preface to the Second Part, in 1690 Page 9.
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Including Translations ... British poets. in Charles II.'s reign English did not come to its full perfection , and whether it has not had its Augustan age as well as the Latin . It seems to be already mixed with foreign languages as far ...
Including Translations ... British poets. in Charles II.'s reign English did not come to its full perfection , and whether it has not had its Augustan age as well as the Latin . It seems to be already mixed with foreign languages as far ...
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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.