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... nature of this ephemeral trifle : that may be a good rule for the works of authors , who , like young Cowley , say to themselves , " What shall I do to be for ever known , And make the world to come my own ! " or who , according to one ...
... nature of this ephemeral trifle : that may be a good rule for the works of authors , who , like young Cowley , say to themselves , " What shall I do to be for ever known , And make the world to come my own ! " or who , according to one ...
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... nature , still most predominant with the truest masters of the critic's art , generally bestows on the immature exercises of the school- boy , or newly matriculated collegian . The chief faults and defects which my friends have had the ...
... nature , still most predominant with the truest masters of the critic's art , generally bestows on the immature exercises of the school- boy , or newly matriculated collegian . The chief faults and defects which my friends have had the ...
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... nature would forget , And prudence mention with the last regret . " A few other instances of vicious or not allowable rhymes have , on different re - peru- sals , occurred to myself : viz . " coast , " made to rhyme with " accost , " in ...
... nature would forget , And prudence mention with the last regret . " A few other instances of vicious or not allowable rhymes have , on different re - peru- sals , occurred to myself : viz . " coast , " made to rhyme with " accost , " in ...
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... nature . It is to the use sometimes of expressions considered , in a general view , as coarse and homely ; and for the most striking examples of this sort , the stanzas narrating the circumstances of the single combats between the two ...
... nature . It is to the use sometimes of expressions considered , in a general view , as coarse and homely ; and for the most striking examples of this sort , the stanzas narrating the circumstances of the single combats between the two ...
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... natural to me , and almost innate , and increased by unsuspended habits of more than half a century . I like to see how fine writers express the same ideas , sometimes in almost the same words , whether knowingly or not ; and why ? be ...
... natural to me , and almost innate , and increased by unsuspended habits of more than half a century . I like to see how fine writers express the same ideas , sometimes in almost the same words , whether knowingly or not ; and why ? be ...
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The First Canto of Ricciardetto; Niccolo Forteguerri,Sylvester Douglas Glenbervie No preview available - 2016 |
1ST CANTO OF RICCIARDETTO Niccolo 1674-1735 Forteguerri,Sylvester Douglas Baron Glenbervie, 17 No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 118 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 169 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Page 163 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders. These many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 167 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 169 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 124 - Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 123 - Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. XXI. [TO CYRIACK SKINNER.] CYRIACK, whose grandsire on the royal bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause, Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws, Which others at their bar so often wrench...
Page 144 - Et de porter le nom de son amant! Votre maison, vos gens, votre livrée, Tout vous retrace une image adorée; Et vos enfants, ces gages précieux, Nés de l'amour, en sont de nouveaux nœuds.
Page 170 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd 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.
Page 163 - Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.