Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Work, Selected from the Most Distinguished WritersA. Thom & Sons, 1857 - 508 páginas |
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... DIED , 1400 . CHAUCER ! our Helicon's first fountain - stream , Our morning star of song , that led the way To welcome the long - after coming beam Of Spenser's lights and Shakspeare's perfect day . Old England's fathers live in ...
... DIED , 1400 . CHAUCER ! our Helicon's first fountain - stream , Our morning star of song , that led the way To welcome the long - after coming beam Of Spenser's lights and Shakspeare's perfect day . Old England's fathers live in ...
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... died in the beginning of the year 1603 ; and on the accession of James I. , which followed soon after , the prosperity of Raleigh came to an end , a dislike against him having previously been instilled by Cecil into the royal ear . " He ...
... died in the beginning of the year 1603 ; and on the accession of James I. , which followed soon after , the prosperity of Raleigh came to an end , a dislike against him having previously been instilled by Cecil into the royal ear . " He ...
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... that halo of literary and martyr - like glory which surrounds it , and will , in all pro- bability , accompany it to a far more distant posterity . " EDMUND SPENSER . BORN , 1553 ; DIED , 1598 SIR WAL ER RALEIGH . 31.
... that halo of literary and martyr - like glory which surrounds it , and will , in all pro- bability , accompany it to a far more distant posterity . " EDMUND SPENSER . BORN , 1553 ; DIED , 1598 SIR WAL ER RALEIGH . 31.
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... died at an obscure lodging in London , and was buried in Westminster Abbey , near the tomb of Chaucer , at the expense of the Earl of Essex . Several of his brother poets attended his funeral , and threw verses into his grave . It was ...
... died at an obscure lodging in London , and was buried in Westminster Abbey , near the tomb of Chaucer , at the expense of the Earl of Essex . Several of his brother poets attended his funeral , and threw verses into his grave . It was ...
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... DIED , 1586 . Yet , whilst the Fates afford me vital breath , I will it spend in speaking of thy praise , And sing to thee , until that timely death , By heaven's doom , do end my earthly days ; Thereto do Thou my humble spirit raise ...
... DIED , 1586 . Yet , whilst the Fates afford me vital breath , I will it spend in speaking of thy praise , And sing to thee , until that timely death , By heaven's doom , do end my earthly days ; Thereto do Thou my humble spirit raise ...
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Página 60 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 361 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 460 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low • So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that...
Página 60 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 361 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Página 312 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 281 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 333 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Página 184 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit: Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
Página 218 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.