Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4T. Bensley, 1816 |
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Pagina v
... things are calculated to excite interest as short in its duration as it is intense in its degree . It is probable that the passion for the literary antiquities of our country may have been on the VOL . IV . b wane for the last year . It ...
... things are calculated to excite interest as short in its duration as it is intense in its degree . It is probable that the passion for the literary antiquities of our country may have been on the VOL . IV . b wane for the last year . It ...
Pagina vi
... died with them ! A catalogue of Mr. Heber's stupendous library , with a few notes from his capacious and unequalled mind , might do all that is wanted . But when will he have leisure for it ? : Or is it to be expected that any thing so vi.
... died with them ! A catalogue of Mr. Heber's stupendous library , with a few notes from his capacious and unequalled mind , might do all that is wanted . But when will he have leisure for it ? : Or is it to be expected that any thing so vi.
Pagina vii
... thing so exquisite , so brilliant , and so unrivalled , should be laid open in broad glare to the unhallowed gaze of the mul- titude ? The necessity of proving the uses of Bibliography is past . Those uses in the pursuit of solid as ...
... thing so exquisite , so brilliant , and so unrivalled , should be laid open in broad glare to the unhallowed gaze of the mul- titude ? The necessity of proving the uses of Bibliography is past . Those uses in the pursuit of solid as ...
Pagina 3
... thing , Yet ev'ry poet to himselfe's a king : But where in one they both commixed be , He then is equall with a deitie . This caus'd us all to leave our Helicon , Our double - topped hill , our Citharon , That were nigh ruinated with ...
... thing , Yet ev'ry poet to himselfe's a king : But where in one they both commixed be , He then is equall with a deitie . This caus'd us all to leave our Helicon , Our double - topped hill , our Citharon , That were nigh ruinated with ...
Pagina 19
... thing I sought . Now was the tyme when this was to be done , Or blame my thoughts , because they it begun . This specimen will serve to show that the poetical merit of this piece is at least on a par with the greater number of those in ...
... thing I sought . Now was the tyme when this was to be done , Or blame my thoughts , because they it begun . This specimen will serve to show that the poetical merit of this piece is at least on a par with the greater number of those in ...
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Pagina 497 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great "twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Pagina 500 - Remember your poor child for his father's sake, who loved you in his happiest estate. I sued for my life, but (God knows) it was for you and yours that I desired it: for know it (my dear wife) your child is the child of a true man, who, in his own respect, despiseth death, and his mis-shapen and ugly forms.
Pagina 10 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Pagina 492 - Some there were, that did interpret The affectionate Shepheard, otherwise then (in truth) I meant, touching the subiect thereof, to wit, the loue of a Shepheard to a boy ; a fault, the which I will not excuse, because I neuer made. Onely this, I will vnshaddow my conceit : being nothing else, but an imitation of Virgill, in the second Eglogue of Alexis.
Pagina 500 - ... yours with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct you i know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial.
Pagina 199 - Fletcher (bringing with them a strong party) appeared, as if they meant to water their Bayes with blood, rather then part with their proper Right, which indeed Apollo and the Muses (had with much justice) conferr'd upon them, so that now there is like to be a trouble in Triplex; Skelton, Gower and the Monk of Bury were at Daggers-drawing for Chaucer...
Pagina 328 - But the proper language of poetry is in fact nothing different from that of real life, and depends for its dignity upon the strength and sentiment of what it speaks.
Pagina 169 - Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewaile and Rothsay, Count Palatine of Chester, Earle of Carick, and late Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Which Noble Prince deceased at St. James, the sixt day of...
Pagina 465 - ... not. In the morning he listens whether the crow crieth even or odd; and, by that token, presages of the weather. If he hear but a raven croak from the next roof, he makes his will...
Pagina 445 - I minde shortely at convenient leysure to sette forth a Booke in this kinde, whyche I entitle Epithalamion Thamesis, whyche Booke 20 I dare undertake wil be very profitable for the knowledge and rare for the Invention and manner of handling.