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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... lived in a cor- rupted age , and their pages are deeply stained with its licentiousness ; they inspire no sympathy for their love , no interest , no respect for the objects of it . How , indeed , should that be possible , when their ...
... lived in a cor- rupted age , and their pages are deeply stained with its licentiousness ; they inspire no sympathy for their love , no interest , no respect for the objects of it . How , indeed , should that be possible , when their ...
الصفحة 27
... lived only till his vessel reached the shores of Tripoli . The Countess being told that a celebrated poet had just arrived in her harbour , who was dying for her love , immediately hastened on board , and taking his hand , en- treated ...
... lived only till his vessel reached the shores of Tripoli . The Countess being told that a celebrated poet had just arrived in her harbour , who was dying for her love , immediately hastened on board , and taking his hand , en- treated ...
الصفحة 30
... lived in a terrible and con- vulsed state of society , and it was only in the intervals snatched from his usual pursuits , that is , from burning the castles , and ravaging the lands of his neighbours , and stirring up rebellion ...
... lived in a terrible and con- vulsed state of society , and it was only in the intervals snatched from his usual pursuits , that is , from burning the castles , and ravaging the lands of his neighbours , and stirring up rebellion ...
الصفحة 44
... lived some years later than Petrarch . I mention him merely to fill up the list of those ancient minor poets of Italy , whose names and loves are still celebrated . CHAPTER VI . LAURA . THERE are some who doubt 44 THE LOVES OF.
... lived some years later than Petrarch . I mention him merely to fill up the list of those ancient minor poets of Italy , whose names and loves are still celebrated . CHAPTER VI . LAURA . THERE are some who doubt 44 THE LOVES OF.
الصفحة 46
... lived . He is too witty- " Il a trop d'esprit , " to be sincere , say the critics , - " he has a con- ceit left him in his misery , —a miserable conceit ; " but we know at least I know - how in the very extremity of passion the soul can ...
... lived . He is too witty- " Il a trop d'esprit , " to be sincere , say the critics , - " he has a con- ceit left him in his misery , —a miserable conceit ; " but we know at least I know - how in the very extremity of passion the soul can ...
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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.