...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!...

...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...

... 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...

...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...