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... poets of whom any memorials whatever could be obtained ; to compile , in fact , a complete biographical dictionary of our poets . I have been quite as much astonished as any of my readers can be at the number of writers in verse , good ...
... poets of whom any memorials whatever could be obtained ; to compile , in fact , a complete biographical dictionary of our poets . I have been quite as much astonished as any of my readers can be at the number of writers in verse , good ...
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... poet who accompanied these conquerors in their successful invasion . The next mention of Irish bards in historical tradition , or traditionary history ... poetry , VOL . I. B whose divine powers they often employed in softening the manners.
... poet who accompanied these conquerors in their successful invasion . The next mention of Irish bards in historical tradition , or traditionary history ... poetry , VOL . I. B whose divine powers they often employed in softening the manners.
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... poet has inter- woven an animating harangue to the hero , who is the subject of it , in the battle of Gabhra . The ... poetry , which in his youth he had employed in the praises of false gods , to a better use ; and now changing his ...
... poet has inter- woven an animating harangue to the hero , who is the subject of it , in the battle of Gabhra . The ... poetry , which in his youth he had employed in the praises of false gods , to a better use ; and now changing his ...
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... poetry and their bards ( writes Blair ) , that amidst all the changes of their governments and manners , even long after the order of the Druids was extinct , and the national religion altered , the bards con- tinued to flourish , not ...
... poetry and their bards ( writes Blair ) , that amidst all the changes of their governments and manners , even long after the order of the Druids was extinct , and the national religion altered , the bards con- tinued to flourish , not ...
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... poets of the middle ages - the frequent use of un- necessary particles , inserted only to help the verse . The subject of Columbanus's poetry never varies ; all his pieces are designed to con- vey to his friends his exhortations to quit ...
... poets of the middle ages - the frequent use of un- necessary particles , inserted only to help the verse . The subject of Columbanus's poetry never varies ; all his pieces are designed to con- vey to his friends his exhortations to quit ...
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Page 212 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 192 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
Page 185 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Page 187 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Page 311 - Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding.
Page 194 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 186 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 60 - For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers...
Page 288 - His chiefest recreation was Musick, in which heavenly Art he was a most excellent Master, and did himself compose many divine Hymns and Anthems, which he set and sung to his Lute or Viol...
Page 322 - Orpheus' lyre : If she sit down, with tops all tow'rds her bow'd, They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks, in even ranks they stand, Like some well-marshal'd and obsequious band.