Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritR.H. Evans, 1810 - 352 páginas |
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... fall- ing into a natural music . So far Lyric poetry is characterised by its manner of composition ; will it also admit of a Character from the nature of its subjects ? It has been already ob- served that the pieces of Sappho and ...
... fall- ing into a natural music . So far Lyric poetry is characterised by its manner of composition ; will it also admit of a Character from the nature of its subjects ? It has been already ob- served that the pieces of Sappho and ...
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... adorn language , and raise it above its ordinary pitch . i Critics have very commonly lamented that the moderns fall short of the ancients more particularly in this species of poetry C " than in any other ; yet , did it IN GENERAL . 17.
... adorn language , and raise it above its ordinary pitch . i Critics have very commonly lamented that the moderns fall short of the ancients more particularly in this species of poetry C " than in any other ; yet , did it IN GENERAL . 17.
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... fall in his way . They have no business here ; they do not accord with that string of the soul which is here to be struck . As it is absolutely essential to all imita- tions of the ancient Ballad , that the story on which they are ...
... fall in his way . They have no business here ; they do not accord with that string of the soul which is here to be struck . As it is absolutely essential to all imita- tions of the ancient Ballad , that the story on which they are ...
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... fall . O stay me not , thou holy friar ; Ι O stay me not , I pray ; No drizzly rain that falls on me , Can wash my fault away . Yet stay , fair lady , turn again , And dry those pearly tears ; For see beneath this gown of Thy own true ...
... fall . O stay me not , thou holy friar ; Ι O stay me not , I pray ; No drizzly rain that falls on me , Can wash my fault away . Yet stay , fair lady , turn again , And dry those pearly tears ; For see beneath this gown of Thy own true ...
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... falling tear , We only part to meet again . Change as ye list ye winds , my heart shall be , The faithful compass that still points to thee . Believe not what the landmen say , Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind , They'll tell thee ...
... falling tear , We only part to meet again . Change as ye list ye winds , my heart shall be , The faithful compass that still points to thee . Believe not what the landmen say , Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind , They'll tell thee ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amorous Amynta Anacreon Ballad beauty beauty's blest bliss bloom bosom breast breath bright Catullus Celia charms cheek Chloe cried cruel Cupid Damon dart dear delight despair dost e'er epigram ev'ry eyes face fair faithless fancy fate fear flame fond gentle give grace grove heart heaven hope kind kiss know my love lady languish lily lips live Lochinvar lov'd lover lyre Lyric Lyric poetry maid mind move Muses nature ne'er Netherby never nightingale numbers nymph o'er pain passion pastoral poetry Phoebe Phyllis pieces pity plain pleasure poetical poetry prove R. B. SHERIDAN rose Sappho scorn shade shepherd sigh sing smile SOAME JENYNS soft song sorrow soul sounds swain sweet taste tears tell tender thee thine thou thought thro Tibullus trembling true Twas vex'd vows warbling weep winds young youth
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Página 260 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Página 48 - Till quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride ; And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died. " But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. " And there forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die ; 'Tvvas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.
Página 43 - No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn: Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them : "But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. "Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong; Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Página 302 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
Página 337 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 338 - Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word), "O, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?
Página 282 - When she is by, I leave my work, I love her so sincerely; My master comes like any Turk, And bangs me most severely: But let him bang his bellyful, I'll bear it all for Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
Página 304 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither — soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy-buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, — All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy Love.
Página 263 - 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.
Página 281 - And it seem'd to a fanciful view To weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas! I snapp'd it, it fell to the ground. And such...