The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age : a Series of Anecdotes Intended to Illustrate the Influence which Female Beauty and Virtue Have Exercised Over the Characters and Writings of Men of GeniusSaunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... fame . That killing power is none of thine , it to thy voice and eyes , I gave Thy sweets , thy graces , all are mine . Thou art my star - shin'st in my skies ; Then dart not from thy borrowed sphere Light'ning on him , who fixed thee ...
... fame . That killing power is none of thine , it to thy voice and eyes , I gave Thy sweets , thy graces , all are mine . Thou art my star - shin'st in my skies ; Then dart not from thy borrowed sphere Light'ning on him , who fixed thee ...
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... to the two heroines of Sir Philip Sydney's Arca- dia ; Sacharissa was the grandniece of that preux chevalier , and hence the frequent allusions to his name and fame . Then we have the poems written at Penshurst , -in 16 SACHARISSA .
... to the two heroines of Sir Philip Sydney's Arca- dia ; Sacharissa was the grandniece of that preux chevalier , and hence the frequent allusions to his name and fame . Then we have the poems written at Penshurst , -in 16 SACHARISSA .
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... fame , consented to survive him . She appears to have been the original after whom he drew his beautiful portrait of Cornelia , the wife of Pompey . Lucan had left the manu- script of the Pharsalia in an imperfect state ; and his wife ...
... fame , consented to survive him . She appears to have been the original after whom he drew his beautiful portrait of Cornelia , the wife of Pompey . Lucan had left the manu- script of the Pharsalia in an imperfect state ; and his wife ...
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... in which she lived , that she neither married again , nor en- very * Chaucer . He perished in 1429 , leaving his widow in her twenty- fourth year . tered a religious house . The fame of her poetical CLOTILDE DE SURVILLE . 57.
... in which she lived , that she neither married again , nor en- very * Chaucer . He perished in 1429 , leaving his widow in her twenty- fourth year . tered a religious house . The fame of her poetical CLOTILDE DE SURVILLE . 57.
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... fame of her poetical talents , which she continued to cultivate in her re- tirement , rendered her , at length , an object of cele- brity and interest . The Duke of Orleans happened one day to repeat some of her verses to Margaret of ...
... fame of her poetical talents , which she continued to cultivate in her re- tirement , rendered her , at length , an object of cele- brity and interest . The Duke of Orleans happened one day to repeat some of her verses to Margaret of ...
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated ..., Volym 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated ..., Volym 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated ..., Volym 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
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Sida 344 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Sida 12 - And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crowned, When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Sida 8 - 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...
Sida 185 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Sida 239 - 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.
Sida 41 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.
Sida 299 - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens : Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Sida 109 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Sida 278 - Why bade ye else, ye powers! her soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes, The glorious fault of angels and of gods: Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Sida 121 - O'er that darkness, whence is thrust Prayer and sleep, oft governs lust. She her throne makes reason climb, While wild passions captive lie ; And each article of time Her pure thoughts to Heaven fly : All her vows religious be, And her love she vows to me.