...ibly urged to ask, ‘Do you love me? Will you love me always?’ I seized the elegiac moment, so warm, so flowery, so full-blown, to lead her to tell her... ...i a match for Camargo? or Malibran the equal of Saint-Huberti? Are not our poets superior to those of the eighteenth century? If at this moment, throu...

...........................................................................53 ELEGIACSTANZAS ............................................................... ...m, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heave... ...ust ever be, Then wherefore should we mourn? ELEGIA ELEGIA ELEGIA ELEGIA ELEGIAC ST C ST C ST C ST C ST ANZ ANZ ANZ ANZ ANZAS AS AS AS AS Suggested ...

...how they might be able to give a reason of their profession: there have been poets also, who spoke of these things by inspiration, like Pindar, and ma... ...oet says the very same thing? MENO: Where does he say so? SOCRATES: In these elegiac verses (Theog.): ‘Eat and drink and sit with the mighty , and mak... ... just now speaking of as diviners and prophets, including the whole tribe of poets. Y es, and statesmen above all may be said to be divine and illumin...

...d History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscu rity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek ... ...enus, also a con temporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereaft...

...ed night? Proclaim this evil human page Will ever blot the Golden Age That poets dream and saints invite, If it be unredeemed this night? This night o... ...s manly god must not exceed Proportions of the natural nursing size. Great poets and great sages draw no prize With women: but the little lap-dog bre... ...eight, If in no vessel built for sea they swim. THE POINT OF TASTE Unhappy poets of a sunken prime! You to reviewers are as ball to bat. They shadow y... ...llars: mine Stand acts to fit the herd; which has quick thirst, Rejecting elegiacs, though they shine On polished brass, and, worthy of the Nine, In ... ... deeds and designs: Who gives us the man-loving Nazarene, The martyrs, the poets, the corn and the vines. By my faith in the head, she has wonders in ... ...hting ire there is never the glory that follows When ashen he lies and the poets arise to sing of the work he has done. But to vision alive under shal...

...ssed – These charms might tame the fiercest breast; Harpers have sung, and poets told, That he, in fury uncontrolled, The shaggy monarch of the wood, ... ... thou not our later time Yields topic meet for classic rhyme? Hast thou no elegiac verse For Brunswick’s venerable hearse? What! not a line, a tear, a...

...e. both of composing and reciting verses for as Blair observes, “The first poets sang their own verses.” Sextus Empir. adv. Mus. p. 360 ed. Fab- ric. ... ...re taken.” Lit of Greece, pp. 38 in Encycl. Metrop. Cf. Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 317.] But poverty still drove him on, and he went by way of Laris... ...d Odyssey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments by ear- lier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... passage, for the translation of which I am indebted to Coleridge, Classic Poets, p. 286. “Origias, farewell! and oh! remember me Hereafter, wh... ...hus, Simonides of Amorgus, Kallinus, Tyrtæus, Xanthus, and the other early elegiac and lyric po- ets, committed their compositions to writing, or at w... ...n operated in the character and tendencies of Grecian poetry and music—the elegiac and the iambic measures having been introduced as rivals to the pri... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour- ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala...

...ss which must surely characterize the intellectual perceptiveness of great poets and often bring them to the verge of madness. “Do you ever feel,” sai... ...e hundred youths that Corneille was a haughty and powerful genius; Racine, elegiac and graceful; Moliere, inimitable; Voltaire, supremely witty; Bossu... ...ne spirit, if I gave my hours to study—ideas to the world and poems to the poets? Nay, nay, my very life, I will treasure everything for you; I will b...

...ey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments 11 Pope by earlier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ...hus, Simonides of Amorgus, Kallinus Tyrtaeus, Xanthus, and the other early elegiac and lyric po ets, committed their compositions to writing, or at w... ...operated in the charac ter and tendencies of Grecian poetry and music—the elegiac and the iambic measures having been introduced as rivals to the pri... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala... ...e find no contradictions warranting this belief, and the so called sixteen poets concur in getting rid of the following leading men in the first battl... ...e with Colonel Mure, that “it seems strange that any number of independent poets should have so harmoniously dispensed with the services of all six in... ...ic value, espe cially in poetry. Three parts of the emendations made upon poets are mere alterations, some of which, had they been suggested to the a...

...here is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only in- habitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther... .... When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread given him by Ariadne, who had fallen... ...ra and this son, since none of the historians have contradicted the tragic poets that have written of them, we must suppose happened as represented un... ...But as, a certain poet who wrote fabulous explanations of Roman customs in elegiac verses, says, that Romulus and Remus, after the conquest of Amulius... ...Spartans as no less musical than warlike; in the words of one of their own poets— With the iron stern and sharp Comes the playing on the harp. For, in... ... temperate man, than of the political govern- ment of a nation. And as the poets feign of Hercules, that, with his lion’s skin and his club, he went o... ...as spread about the city that he was mad. He then secretly com- posed some elegiac verses, and getting them by heart, that it might seem extempore, ra... ...oldiers whom he had killed, to make a boast of his victory in an insulting elegiac inscription: These shields, with purple, gold, and ivory wrought, W... ...ttled at it than Philip. The latter merely retorted upon Alcaeus with some elegiac verses of his own: — Naked and leafless see, O passer-by, The cross...

...g and the wound- ing, and might have claimed a place in Alan’s verses. But poets have to think upon their rhymes; and in good prose talk, Alan always ... ...oon, in very good Latin, but with a very ill meaning, which he had made in elegiac verses upon a person of that house. When I told him of my catechist...

...ith the entertainment which is provided for them by writers, painters, and poets.” Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty ... ... immersed himself in the modern French versifiers, and, such a plethora of poets is there in France, he had several new geniuses to tell Philip about.... ... discourse on the subject that beauty is put into things by paint- ers and poets. They create beauty . In themselves there is nothing to choose betwee... ... and it was crowded with traf- fic; Philip thought of the painters and the poets who had made all these things so beautiful, and his heart was filled ... ...wo or three 408 Of Human Bondage glasses of whiskey he was inclined to be elegiac. “I’m a failure,” he murmured, “I’m unfit for the brutality of the ... ...“I don’t indeed.” “He was one of the Spanish mystics. He’s one of the best poets they’ve ever had. I thought it would be worth while translating him i...

...hree hours in the evening; I thought the papers very hard; we had no Latin elegiacs or lyrics, which was rather a bore for the Eton lot. I am very gla... ...s dull, and Livy apparently easy and really very hard. So, again, with the poets; and most of all I found no interest (fancy!) in Plato and Aristotle....

...ophanes, and was present at the contest, there periodi- cally held, of the poets, who took at that time no other theme or subject than the actions of ... ...gnified he should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labor and sweat to describe and cel- ebr... ...e a small eye-sore, from the port of Piraeus, should breed good actors and poets, and yet should never be able to produce a just, temperate, wise, and... ...ime; but his verses are forgotten and out of all repute, so many ingenious poets having followed him. Leaving his juvenile studies, he became an audit... ..., apart by themselves, erecting his statue in brass, inscribed on it these elegiac verses: — Your counsels, deeds, and skill for Greece in war Known b...

...logues on the one hand; and, on the other, to poetic imitations in iambic, elegiac, or any similar metre. People do, indeed, add the word ‘maker’ or ‘... ...eed, add the word ‘maker’ or ‘poet’ to the name of the metre, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the im... ... the word ‘maker’ or ‘poet’ to the name of the metre, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imita- tio... ...easure, being that in which people lam- pooned one another. Thus the older poets were distinguished as writers of heroic or of lampooning verse. As, i... ...o T ragedy. But when T ragedy and Comedy came to light, the two classes of poets still followed their natural bent: the lampooners became writers of C... ...heir natural bent: the lampooners became writers of Com- edy, and the Epic poets were succeeded by T ragedians, since the drama was a larger and highe... ...re till then voluntary. Comedy had already taken definite shape when comic poets, distinctively so called, are heard of. Who furnished it with masks, ...

... GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much a... ...e class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The an... ...Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most cul- tiv... ...llins, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and many other poets. His native faculty, indeed, seems rather fine than powerful—rather t... ...less wealth, the native inheritance of his own genius. The highest rank of poets descend on their sublime sub- jects, like Uriel, descending alongst h... ... 203 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Hence hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lines, 248 Hence Journals, Medleys, Merc’ries, Magazines: Sepulchra... ...of Poverty and Poetry. VER. 41 in the former lines— Hence hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lay, Hence the soft sing-song on Cecilia’s day. VER. 42 alludes to ... ...rned his shop with titles in red letters.—P . 248 ‘Hence hymning Tyburn’s elegiac lines:’ it is an ancient English custom for the malefactors to sing...

...t of all upon the antiquity of love, which is proved by the authority of the poets; secondly upon the benefits which love gives to man. The greatest o... ... soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and vir tue, such as poets and other creators have in vented. And the noblest creations of al... .... But effeminate love was always condemned as well as ridiculed by the Comic poets; and in the New Comedy the allu sions to such topics have disappea... ...the greater refinement of the age. False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not ... ...ter refinement of the age. False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not exempt f... ...cluding the tragedians, philosophers, and, with the ex ception of the Comic poets (whose business was to raise a laugh by whatever means), all the gr...

...mitation thrice removed from the truth, and Homer, as well as the dramatic poets, having been con demned as an imitator, is sent into banishment alon... ...which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that time which the poets call the ‘threshold of old age’— Is life harder towards the end, or w... ...r proper to him—that is to say, evil. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he r... ...way of speaking about justice and injustice, which is not confined to the poets, but is found in prose writers. The universal voice of mankind is al... ...d incantations binding heaven, as they say, to execute their will. And the poets are the authorities to whom they appeal, now smoothing the path of v... ... said: Sons of an illustrious father, that was not a bad beginning of the Elegiac verses which the admirer of Glaucon made in honour of you after you...

...meric Hexameter described and exemplified . . . . . . . . . 279 The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified . . . . . . 280 On a Cataract. F... ...m Surgit amari aliquid. Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace: Small poets lov’d to sing her blooming face. Before her altars, lo! a numerous... ...8 - Pity Coleridge: Poems To the Nightingale 1795 Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their win... ...he Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified Coleridge: Poems The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified 1799 In the hexameter rises... ... column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. - 279 - The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified Coleridge: Poems On a Cataract. ...

... good and bright piece of work, and recognised a link of sympathy with the poets who ‘play in hostelries at euchre.’ – Believe me, dear sir, yours tru... ...Eton boy, translating for his sins a part of the Inland V oyage into Latin elegiacs; and from the hour I saw it, or rather a friend of mine, the admir...

...perienced it,” she replied. “That is why,” he said, “I especially love the poets. I think verse more tender than prose, and that it moves far more eas... ...eft her, he came back, he seemed desperate; he had outbursts of rage, then elegiac gurglings of infinite sweet- ness, and the notes escaped from his b... ...poet’ s heart in an angel’ s form, a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven, why, perchance, should she not find him? Ah!...

...n the Saints enjoy their full perfection. Mr. Symson also poured forth his elegiac strains upon the fate of the widowed bridegroom, on which subject, ... ...ene and silent art, as painting has been called by one of our first living poets, necessarily appealed to the eye, because it had not the organs for a...

...ational Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Lo... ...d, Journalism, through all its throats, gives hoarse outcry, condemnatory, elegiac-applausive. The Forty-eight Sec- tions, lift up voices; sonorous Br... ...her. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues, ’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org...