The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... person of Milton , upon the authority of Christopher Milton , Milton's brother , with whom the poet lived in friendship , and who attested it after his death . ' Then follows a note of two quarto pages ; in which Mr. Godwin only shows ...
... person of Milton , upon the authority of Christopher Milton , Milton's brother , with whom the poet lived in friendship , and who attested it after his death . ' Then follows a note of two quarto pages ; in which Mr. Godwin only shows ...
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... person that had bin once his amanuensis , which were confirm'd to me by his daughter now dwelling in London , and by a letter written to one at my desire from his last wife , who is still alive . I perus'd the papers of one of his ...
... person that had bin once his amanuensis , which were confirm'd to me by his daughter now dwelling in London , and by a letter written to one at my desire from his last wife , who is still alive . I perus'd the papers of one of his ...
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... persons of Lady Derby's own family ; ' and Mr. Todd conjectures , that these persons could have been no other than the same Lord Brackley , Mr. Thomas and Lady Alice Egerton , who performed Comus . It seems , indeed , that they were ...
... persons of Lady Derby's own family ; ' and Mr. Todd conjectures , that these persons could have been no other than the same Lord Brackley , Mr. Thomas and Lady Alice Egerton , who performed Comus . It seems , indeed , that they were ...
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... person , at his lodgings ; and , finally , wrote a distich of Latin verses , in praise of every thing but his religion . If it was for these two lines Urban VIII .; who , says Dr. Bargrave , had nothing in his mouth but Cardinall ...
... person , at his lodgings ; and , finally , wrote a distich of Latin verses , in praise of every thing but his religion . If it was for these two lines Urban VIII .; who , says Dr. Bargrave , had nothing in his mouth but Cardinall ...
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... Persons better in- formed than Dr. Johnson could tell me perhaps of half a dozen . How great was my surprise , when I found my collection swelling to forty or fifty ! " * Pos- terity was to know , therefore , that Dr. Johnson had ...
... Persons better in- formed than Dr. Johnson could tell me perhaps of half a dozen . How great was my surprise , when I found my collection swelling to forty or fifty ! " * Pos- terity was to know , therefore , that Dr. Johnson had ...
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Page 224 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 287 - And, though the shady gloom Had given day her room, The sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head" for shame, As his inferior flame The new-enlighten'd world no more should need ; He saw a greater sun appear Than his bright throne, or burning axle-tree, could bear.
Page 260 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing...
Page 288 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 196 - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Page 255 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 250 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As He pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 260 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Page 262 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek ! Or call up him that left...
Page 256 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.