Fame's Twilight: Studies of Nine Men of LettersP. Allan & Company, 1923 - 263 páginas |
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Página 220 - Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.
Página 174 - Gideon's miracles was shown ; For every tree and every herb around With pearly dew was crown'd, And upon all the quicken'd ground The fruitful seed of heaven did brooding lie, And nothing but the Muse's fleece was dry.
Página 238 - The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands, And (quick as lightning) on the deck he stands. So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, (If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,) And drops at once into her nest. The noblest captain in the British fleet Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet.
Página 155 - 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 122 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 92 - Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed, Though now she's turned into a reed; From that dear reed Pan's pipe does come, A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb; Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can So chant it as the pipe of Pan: Cross-gartered swains and dairy girls, With faces smug and round as pearls, When Pan's shrill pipe begins to play, With dancing wear out night and day; The bagpipe's drone his hum lays by, When Pan sounds up his minstrelsy; His minstrelsy, O base! This quill, Which at my mouth with wind...
Página 229 - Where porters' hogsheads roll from carts aslope, Or brewers down steep cellars stretch the rope, Where counted billets are by carmen tost, Stay thy rash step, and walk without the post.
Página 176 - To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables.
Página 179 - Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well twice runs his race. And in this true delight. These unbought sports, this happy state. I would not fear, nor wish, my fate; But boldly say each night, "To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them, — I have lived to-day.
Página 242 - at has a frien' or a neebor down yonner, to rise up an' taste nor bite nor sup mail• till we gang up a'thegither to the fut o...