The Lives of the Poets-laureate: With an Introductory Essay on the Title and OfficeR. Bentley, 1853 - 428 pages |
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... success . The custom most prevailed , however , after the revival of letters in the middle ages . Learning then appeared to many with more than a syren's fascination . Its progress and its pursuit became the sole subject of their ...
... success . The custom most prevailed , however , after the revival of letters in the middle ages . Learning then appeared to many with more than a syren's fascination . Its progress and its pursuit became the sole subject of their ...
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... success ; and the King , pronouncing him fully worthy of the proposed triumph , took off his robe of state , and threw it around Petrarch , desiring him to wear it on the day he was to receive his crown . He proceeded to Rome , and on ...
... success ; and the King , pronouncing him fully worthy of the proposed triumph , took off his robe of state , and threw it around Petrarch , desiring him to wear it on the day he was to receive his crown . He proceeded to Rome , and on ...
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... success in Macaronics was universally conceded . This curious transition style of verse was frequently practised about that time and later . English composition larded with patches of Latin , some- times of French , in a most ...
... success in Macaronics was universally conceded . This curious transition style of verse was frequently practised about that time and later . English composition larded with patches of Latin , some- times of French , in a most ...
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... successful , as the Queen requested the immediate payment of the money . In " The Tears of the Muses , " a poem containing numerous allusions to the persons and literary history of the time , are some stanzas referring to " Our Pleasant ...
... successful , as the Queen requested the immediate payment of the money . In " The Tears of the Muses , " a poem containing numerous allusions to the persons and literary history of the time , are some stanzas referring to " Our Pleasant ...
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... " Epitha- lamium ; or , Bridal Song . " After so long an interval he again had wooed , and this time with success , as he was married at Cork , June 11 , 1594 . The pastoral elegy of " Astrophel , " devoted to INTRODUCTION . 43.
... " Epitha- lamium ; or , Bridal Song . " After so long an interval he again had wooed , and this time with success , as he was married at Cork , June 11 , 1594 . The pastoral elegy of " Astrophel , " devoted to INTRODUCTION . 43.
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Page 104 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 100 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of. an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Snfflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 107 - Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch, and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Page 428 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 402 - The Moon hung naked in a firmament Of azure without cloud, and at my feet Rested a silent sea of hoary mist. A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean...
Page 106 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his last plays were but his dotages) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had.
Page 80 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 40 - ... in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 104 - I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee...
Page 76 - Come leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age ; Where pride and impudence, in faction knit, Usurp the chair of wit ! Indicting and arraigning every day Something they call a play. Let their fastidious, vain Commission of the brain Run on and rage, sweat, censure and condemn ; They were not made for thee, less thou for them.