Miscellanies: Hours of Idleness. English bards and Scotch reviewers. Hints from HoraceJ. Murray, 1837 |
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... verses of J. M. B. Pigot , Esq . on the Cruel- ty of his Mistress To the sighing Strephon To Eliza Lachin y Gair To Romance Page 95 - 97 98 - 100 102 - 103 105 - 106 · 108 Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author ...
... verses of J. M. B. Pigot , Esq . on the Cruel- ty of his Mistress To the sighing Strephon To Eliza Lachin y Gair To Romance Page 95 - 97 98 - 100 102 - 103 105 - 106 · 108 Answer to some elegant Verses sent by a Friend to the Author ...
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... SCOTCH REVIEWERS ; A SATIRE PREFACE Page - 183 . 187 HINTS FROM HORACE ; BEING AN ALLUSION IN EN- GLISH VERSE TO THE EPISTLE " AD PISONES , DE ARTE POETICA " · 255 HOURS OF IDLENESS : A SERIES OF POEMS ORIGINAL AND vi CONTENTS.
... SCOTCH REVIEWERS ; A SATIRE PREFACE Page - 183 . 187 HINTS FROM HORACE ; BEING AN ALLUSION IN EN- GLISH VERSE TO THE EPISTLE " AD PISONES , DE ARTE POETICA " · 255 HOURS OF IDLENESS : A SERIES OF POEMS ORIGINAL AND vi CONTENTS.
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... verse generally encounter , but may incur the charge of presumption for obtruding myself on the world , when , without doubt , I might be , at my age , more usefully employed . These productions are the fruits of the lighter hours of a ...
... verse generally encounter , but may incur the charge of presumption for obtruding myself on the world , when , without doubt , I might be , at my age , more usefully employed . These productions are the fruits of the lighter hours of a ...
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... verse ; but it would be difficult for me to forget her - her dark eyes her long eye - lashes - her completely Greek cast of face and figure ! I was then about twelve - she rather older , perhaps a year . She died about a year or two ...
... verse ; but it would be difficult for me to forget her - her dark eyes her long eye - lashes - her completely Greek cast of face and figure ! I was then about twelve - she rather older , perhaps a year . She died about a year or two ...
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... poet sometimes , and would write down for her some verses of his own which he remembered . " He then , with a pencil , wrote these lines , " To D- . " ] True , she has forc'd thee from my breast , B 6 HOURS OF IDLENESS . 11 To To D.
... poet sometimes , and would write down for her some verses of his own which he remembered . " He then , with a pencil , wrote these lines , " To D- . " ] True , she has forc'd thee from my breast , B 6 HOURS OF IDLENESS . 11 To To D.
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Page 200 - And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame: Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain!
Page 205 - And Christmas stories tortured into rhyme Contain the essence of the true sublime. Thus, when he tells the tale of Betty Foy, The idiot mother of 'an idiot boy...
Page 239 - Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as must impress the reader with the liveliest regret, that so short a period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume.
Page 205 - Who, both by precept and example, shows That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose...
Page 305 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 192 - And I not sing, lest, haply, Scotch Reviews Should dub me scribbler, and denounce my Muse? Prepare for rhyme — I'll publish, right or wrong : Fools are my theme, let Satire be my song...
Page 178 - ... at which each was written. Now, the law upon the point of minority, we hold to be perfectly clear. It is a plea available only to the defendant; no plaintiff can offer it as a supplementary ground of action. Thus, if any suit could be brought against Lord Byron, for the purpose of compelling him to put into court a certain quantity of poetry, and if...
Page 267 - Descriptas servare vices operumque colores Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poeta salutor? Cur nescire pudens prave quam discere malo ? Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult; Indignatur item privatis ac prope socco 90 Dignis carminibus narrari coena Thyestae.
Page 265 - Res gestae regumque ducumque et tristia bella Quo scribi possent numero, monstravit Homerus.
Page 238 - White ! 96 while life was in its spring, And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler swept that soaring lyre away, Which else had sounded an immortal lay. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When Science' self destroy'd her favourite son!