Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated in Ancient and Modern PoetryLea & Blanchard, 1844 - 376 páginas |
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... turned aside , and commanded Ber- trand and his followers to be immediately set at liberty ; he even restored to Bertrand his castle and his lands , " in the name of his dead son . " It is such traits as these , oc- curring at every ...
... turned aside , and commanded Ber- trand and his followers to be immediately set at liberty ; he even restored to Bertrand his castle and his lands , " in the name of his dead son . " It is such traits as these , oc- curring at every ...
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... turned with love , poetry , and vanity : he believed himself the beloved of all the fair , the mirror of knighthood , and the prince of Troubadours . Yet in the midst of all his extravagances , he possessed exquisite skill in his art ...
... turned with love , poetry , and vanity : he believed himself the beloved of all the fair , the mirror of knighthood , and the prince of Troubadours . Yet in the midst of all his extravagances , he possessed exquisite skill in his art ...
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... turning upon the same subject and sentiment , the poet has poured forth such an endless and redundant variety both of thought and feeling - how from the wide universe , the changeful face of all beautiful nature , the treasures of ...
... turning upon the same subject and sentiment , the poet has poured forth such an endless and redundant variety both of thought and feeling - how from the wide universe , the changeful face of all beautiful nature , the treasures of ...
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... turned to satire , and insult our moral feeling . But the question , I believe , is finally set at rest , and it were idle to war with epigrams . All the evidence that has been collected , external and internal , prose and poe- * Madame ...
... turned to satire , and insult our moral feeling . But the question , I believe , is finally set at rest , and it were idle to war with epigrams . All the evidence that has been collected , external and internal , prose and poe- * Madame ...
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... turned exceedingly pale , a cloud overspread her beautiful counte- nance , and she fixed her eyes on the ground . This was to her lover an intoxicating moment ; in the exultation of sudden delight , he interpreted these symptoms of ...
... turned exceedingly pale , a cloud overspread her beautiful counte- nance , and she fixed her eyes on the ground . This was to her lover an intoxicating moment ; in the exultation of sudden delight , he interpreted these symptoms of ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 211 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.