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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... Fair Geraldine 106 CHAPTER XIII . Ariosto , Ginevra , and Alessandra Strozzi . 113 CHAPTER XIV . Spenser's Rosalind . Spenser's Elizabeth 124 CHAPTER XV . On the Love of Shakspeare • 133 CHAPTER XVI . Sydney's Stella ( Lady Rich ) 139 ...
... Fair Geraldine 106 CHAPTER XIII . Ariosto , Ginevra , and Alessandra Strozzi . 113 CHAPTER XIV . Spenser's Rosalind . Spenser's Elizabeth 124 CHAPTER XV . On the Love of Shakspeare • 133 CHAPTER XVI . Sydney's Stella ( Lady Rich ) 139 ...
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... fair , and not less worthy , have gone down unsung , " to dust and an endless darkness . " How many women , who would otherwise have stolen through the shade of domes- tic life , their charms , virtues , and affections buried with them ...
... fair , and not less worthy , have gone down unsung , " to dust and an endless darkness . " How many women , who would otherwise have stolen through the shade of domes- tic life , their charms , virtues , and affections buried with them ...
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... fair luminous cloud , " the other " veiled in shadowing roses ; " and thus veiled and thus shadowed , by all accounts , they had better remain . The same remark , with the same reservation , applies to the Latin poets . They wrote ...
... fair luminous cloud , " the other " veiled in shadowing roses ; " and thus veiled and thus shadowed , by all accounts , they had better remain . The same remark , with the same reservation , applies to the Latin poets . They wrote ...
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... fair one , can she do less ? kindly consents ! Cynthia , the mistress of Propertius , gets tipsy , overturns the supper table , and throws the cups at her lover's head ; he is delighted with her playfulness : she leaves him to follow ...
... fair one , can she do less ? kindly consents ! Cynthia , the mistress of Propertius , gets tipsy , overturns the supper table , and throws the cups at her lover's head ; he is delighted with her playfulness : she leaves him to follow ...
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... woe - begone to drop a tear ; How yet the regal aspect he retains ! ' Tis Jason- He who with tokens and fair witching words Hypsipyle beguil'd— * Percy's Reliques . Such is the guilt condemns him to this pain ; 38 THE LOVES OF.
... woe - begone to drop a tear ; How yet the regal aspect he retains ! ' Tis Jason- He who with tokens and fair witching words Hypsipyle beguil'd— * Percy's Reliques . Such is the guilt condemns him to this pain ; 38 THE LOVES OF.
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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.