Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated in Ancient and Modern PoetryLea & Blanchard, 1844 - 376 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 14
... believe it , when the garland was such as woman is proud to wear , she amply and deeply rewarded him who placed it on her brow . If in return for being made illus- trious , she made her lover happy , -if for glory she gave a heart , was ...
... believe it , when the garland was such as woman is proud to wear , she amply and deeply rewarded him who placed it on her brow . If in return for being made illus- trious , she made her lover happy , -if for glory she gave a heart , was ...
الصفحة 28
... believe how very true Is my love for her , alas ! afar , Tho ' for each joy a thousand pains I bear , because I am so far . Bertrand d'Allamanon , whom I have mentioned as the companion of Rudel on his romantic expedition , has left us ...
... believe how very true Is my love for her , alas ! afar , Tho ' for each joy a thousand pains I bear , because I am so far . Bertrand d'Allamanon , whom I have mentioned as the companion of Rudel on his romantic expedition , has left us ...
الصفحة 37
... believe , still kept up , but it has degenerated into a mere school of affectation . The original race of the Troubadours was extinct long before Clemence d'Isaure and her golden violet were thought of . I cannot quit the subject of the ...
... believe , still kept up , but it has degenerated into a mere school of affectation . The original race of the Troubadours was extinct long before Clemence d'Isaure and her golden violet were thought of . I cannot quit the subject of the ...
الصفحة 45
... believe all to be mere invention , -the coinage of the brain , a tissue of visionary fancies , in which the heart had no share ; to confound him with the cold metaphysical rhymesters of * See Pursuits of Literature . a later age ...
... believe all to be mere invention , -the coinage of the brain , a tissue of visionary fancies , in which the heart had no share ; to confound him with the cold metaphysical rhymesters of * See Pursuits of Literature . a later age ...
الصفحة 53
... believe there is no version into English of the 48th Canzone . If Lady Dacre had executed , it — and in the same spirit as the " Chiare , fresche e dolce acque , " and the " Italia mia , " the reader had been spared my abortive prose ...
... believe there is no version into English of the 48th Canzone . If Lady Dacre had executed , it — and in the same spirit as the " Chiare , fresche e dolce acque , " and the " Italia mia , " the reader had been spared my abortive prose ...
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الصفحة 135 - And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath ; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.
الصفحة 183 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know • Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows...
الصفحة 294 - Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met— or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
الصفحة 137 - ... No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
الصفحة 189 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
الصفحة 194 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
الصفحة 151 - At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
الصفحة 312 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
الصفحة 137 - ... this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
الصفحة 211 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.