A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous Specimens, Volumen2Griffin, Bonn,, 1861 |
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... remarkable among the clerical poets of this earlier half of the seventeenth century was Dr. Richard Corbet , successively Bishop of Oxford and of Norwich . Corbet , who was born in 1582 , became famous both as a poet and as a wit early ...
... remarkable among the clerical poets of this earlier half of the seventeenth century was Dr. Richard Corbet , successively Bishop of Oxford and of Norwich . Corbet , who was born in 1582 , became famous both as a poet and as a wit early ...
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... remarkable for a cordiality and impetuosity of manner which has nothing foreign about it , but is altogether English , although there is not much resembling it in any of his predecessors any more than of his contemporaries , unless ...
... remarkable for a cordiality and impetuosity of manner which has nothing foreign about it , but is altogether English , although there is not much resembling it in any of his predecessors any more than of his contemporaries , unless ...
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... remarkable poem , the Cooper's Hill of Sir John Denham , first published in 1642. It immediately drew universal attention . Denham , however , had the year before made himself known as a poet by his tragedy of The Sophy , on the ...
... remarkable poem , the Cooper's Hill of Sir John Denham , first published in 1642. It immediately drew universal attention . Denham , however , had the year before made himself known as a poet by his tragedy of The Sophy , on the ...
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... remarkable pieces , are , it seems , copied verbatim from a volume entitled Ex Otio Negotium , or Martial his Epigrams Translated , with Sundry Poems and Fancies ; by R. Fletcher . 8vo . Lon . 1656. And other pieces in the same Second ...
... remarkable pieces , are , it seems , copied verbatim from a volume entitled Ex Otio Negotium , or Martial his Epigrams Translated , with Sundry Poems and Fancies ; by R. Fletcher . 8vo . Lon . 1656. And other pieces in the same Second ...
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... remarkable for their vigour and terseness . As a speci- men we will give a portion of a poem which he published without his name in 1647 , under the title of " Amygdala Bri- tannica ; Almonds for Parrots ; a dish of Stone - fruit ...
... remarkable for their vigour and terseness . As a speci- men we will give a portion of a poem which he published without his name in 1647 , under the title of " Amygdala Bri- tannica ; Almonds for Parrots ; a dish of Stone - fruit ...
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Página 460 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 77 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 502 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 463 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man— This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almoit grown the habit of my soul.
Página 463 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 505 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 505 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 90 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Página 208 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Página 360 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!