The Book of the Sonnet, Volume 1Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1867 |
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... of the late Mr. Leigh Hunt , who will retain an interest in the publication as far as the present publishers are concerned . Milton House , Ludgate Hill , December , 1866 . 625943 IS THIS WORK RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO GEORGE H. BOKER ,
... of the late Mr. Leigh Hunt , who will retain an interest in the publication as far as the present publishers are concerned . Milton House , Ludgate Hill , December , 1866 . 625943 IS THIS WORK RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO GEORGE H. BOKER ,
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... present volume , is the indul- gence of a hope , that , as previous writers on the class of poetry which it illustrates have not exhausted the sub- ject , and as the selection of the many beautiful speci- mens which it contains proceeds ...
... present volume , is the indul- gence of a hope , that , as previous writers on the class of poetry which it illustrates have not exhausted the sub- ject , and as the selection of the many beautiful speci- mens which it contains proceeds ...
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... present condition of Italy be thought a counter - evidence to the good of its example , let us recollect all which Italy did of old , united or disunited , and all which its enemies fear it would do , if united again . Napoleon is said ...
... present condition of Italy be thought a counter - evidence to the good of its example , let us recollect all which Italy did of old , united or disunited , and all which its enemies fear it would do , if united again . Napoleon is said ...
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... present century . And for reasons greater than all others , this last consequence in ' particular appears to me to have been fortunate , I would dare to say providential , if I might presume to look into secrets so great ; for there was ...
... present century . And for reasons greater than all others , this last consequence in ' particular appears to me to have been fortunate , I would dare to say providential , if I might presume to look into secrets so great ; for there was ...
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... present section with one or two small but curious passages out of the “ Early Life " Vita Nuova of the former , and a larger one , very curious , from the " Essays on Petrarch , " by Ugo Fos- colo . - " This sonnet , " says Dante ...
... present section with one or two small but curious passages out of the “ Early Life " Vita Nuova of the former , and a larger one , very curious , from the " Essays on Petrarch , " by Ugo Fos- colo . - " This sonnet , " says Dante ...
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admirable Anna Seward appears Arezzo beautiful birds Boker breath bright CHARLES LAMB charm clouds critic Dante dark dear death delight Della Cruscans doth earth English ENGLISH SONNETS Essay eyes Faerie Queene fair fancy fear feel flowers fourteen lines genius gentle glow grace happy hath heart heaven hope Italian language Italian poetry Italy kind lady language LEIGH HUNT light live lone look lover Marini melody Milton mind morning mournful nature never o'er Ozymandias passion Petrarca poems poet poetical praise quatrains reader rhymes scorn seems Shakespeare sighs silent sing sleep smile soft song sonnet sorrow soul sound speak specimens Spenser spirit spring star sweet Tasso taste tears tender terzettes thee thine things Thomas Warton thou thought tion Varchi Veronica Gambara verse voice wandering words Wordsworth writers written
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Página 154 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 164 - 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 162 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : » Referring to the obsequies for the dead.
Página 163 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang; In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest...
Página 160 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 179 - LAWRENCE ! of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily' and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun.
Página 226 - NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And hermits are contented with their cells , And students with their pensive citadels , Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy ; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells...
Página xii - Scorn not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp...
Página 241 - Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind, — But how could I forget thee ? Through what power, Even for the least division of an hour...
Página 180 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...