A critique on the critics; or, The Britannia, Athenæum, and clique unmaskedGrant & Griffith, for the author, 1847 - 71 pages |
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... fair estimate of its merits ? I ask these gentle- men , in common justice , ( without entailing upon them what they may possibly consider a labour - that of reading through my whole poem , ) to open the book at a venture , and cite from ...
... fair estimate of its merits ? I ask these gentle- men , in common justice , ( without entailing upon them what they may possibly consider a labour - that of reading through my whole poem , ) to open the book at a venture , and cite from ...
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... fair and fertile land ; NAPOLEON their dread captain - awful name ! Whose conquests , glories , crimes , and sudden fall No feeble muse may sing ! Thy mighty deeds , Proud Corsican , demand Homeric lyre , Or his who told to an admiring ...
... fair and fertile land ; NAPOLEON their dread captain - awful name ! Whose conquests , glories , crimes , and sudden fall No feeble muse may sing ! Thy mighty deeds , Proud Corsican , demand Homeric lyre , Or his who told to an admiring ...
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... fair Lavinia's hand - bold Turnus slain . " We must remark here one peculiarity in the author's style . Without the slightest preparatory notice , he starts at once from blank verse into rhyme , and , after a dozen couplets or so ...
... fair Lavinia's hand - bold Turnus slain . " We must remark here one peculiarity in the author's style . Without the slightest preparatory notice , he starts at once from blank verse into rhyme , and , after a dozen couplets or so ...
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... fair , perhaps an eminent name in any other pursuit to which he might have devoted him- self . But they are utterly lost in this poem , which shows beside really great epics like a muddy road compared with the starry heaven . It is to ...
... fair , perhaps an eminent name in any other pursuit to which he might have devoted him- self . But they are utterly lost in this poem , which shows beside really great epics like a muddy road compared with the starry heaven . It is to ...
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... fair large ears , my gentle joy ! " " What , wilt thou hear some music , my sweet love ? A. " I have a tolerable good ear in music ; let us have the tongs and the bones ! " " Or say , sweet love , what thou desir'st to eat ? ” A ...
... fair large ears , my gentle joy ! " " What , wilt thou hear some music , my sweet love ? A. " I have a tolerable good ear in music ; let us have the tongs and the bones ! " " Or say , sweet love , what thou desir'st to eat ? ” A ...
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Page 66 - E se, vencendo a Maura resistencia, A morte sabes dar com fogo e ferro, Sabe tambem dar vida com clemencia A quem para perdel-a não fez erro.
Page 55 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 64 - Ignez ao mundo determina, Por lhe tirar o filho, que tem preso; Crendo co'o sangue só da morte indina Matar do firme amor o fogo acceso. Que furor...
Page 3 - Ere Caesar was, or Newton named; These raised new empires o'er the earth, And those new heavens and systems framed. Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schemed, in vain they bled ! They had no poet, and are dead.
Page 64 - Se já nas brutas feras, cuja mente Natura fez cruel de nascimento, E nas aves agrestes, que somente Nas rapinas aéreas têm o intento, Com pequenas crianças viu a gente Terem tão piedoso sentimento, Como co'a mãe de Nino já mostraram...
Page 68 - Assi como a bonina, que cortada Antes do tempo foi, candida e bella, Sendo das mãos lascivas maltratada Da menina, que a trouxe na capella, O cheiro traz perdido, ea cor murchada : Tal está morta a pallida donzella, Seccas do rosto as rosas, e perdida A branca e viva cor, co'a doce vida.
Page 64 - Traziam-na os horríficos algozes Ante o Rei, já movido a piedade; Mas o povo, com falsas e ferozes Razões, à morte crua o persuade.
Page 68 - Taes contra Ignez os brutos matadores No collo de alabastro, que sostinha As obras, com que Amor matou de amores Aquelle, que despois a fez Rainha, As espadas banhando, e as brancas flores, Que ella dos olhos seus regadas tinha, Se encarniçavam, fervidos e irosos, No futuro castigo não cuidosos.
Page 68 - Bem puderas, ó sol, da vista destes Teus raios apartar aquelle dia, Como da seva mesa de Thyestes, Quando os filhos por mão de Atreo comia! Vós, ó côncavos valles, que pudestes A voz extrema ouvir da boca fria, O nome do seu Pedro, que lhe ouvistes, Por muito grande espaço repetistes I 134.
Page 66 - Põe-me, onde se use toda a feridade, Entre leões e tigres ; e verei, Se nelles achar posso a piedade, Que entre peitos humanos não achei : Alli co'o amor intrínseco, e vontade Naquelle, por quem mouro, criarei Estas reliquias suas, que aqui viste ; Que refrigerio sejam da mãi triste.