Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1886 - 234 страница |
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... Muses of Horace and Catullus . Re- turning to Nature , poets returned to thee . Thy monument has perished , but not thy music , and the Prince of Poets has returned to his own again in a glorious Restoration . Through the dust and smoke ...
... Muses of Horace and Catullus . Re- turning to Nature , poets returned to thee . Thy monument has perished , but not thy music , and the Prince of Poets has returned to his own again in a glorious Restoration . Through the dust and smoke ...
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... Muses walked with thee . We seem to mark thee wandering silent through some little village , or dreaming in the woods , or loitering among thy lonely places , or in gardens where the roses . blossom among wilder flowers , or on river ...
... Muses walked with thee . We seem to mark thee wandering silent through some little village , or dreaming in the woods , or loitering among thy lonely places , or in gardens where the roses . blossom among wilder flowers , or on river ...
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... Muses . Then said Panurge , as well as he might for the chattering of his teeth : ' May I never drink if here come not the Coqcigrues ! ' and this saying and prophecy of his was true and inspired . But thereon the others began to mock ...
... Muses . Then said Panurge , as well as he might for the chattering of his teeth : ' May I never drink if here come not the Coqcigrues ! ' and this saying and prophecy of his was true and inspired . But thereon the others began to mock ...
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... Muses , the child of many prayers . Never , since Adam's day , have any parents but yours prayed for a poet- child . Then Destiny , that mocks the desires of men in general , and fathers in particular , heard the appeal , and pre ...
... Muses , the child of many prayers . Never , since Adam's day , have any parents but yours prayed for a poet- child . Then Destiny , that mocks the desires of men in general , and fathers in particular , heard the appeal , and pre ...
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... Muses . Your training in all the mechanics and metaphysics of criticism might have made you exclaim , like Rasselas , Enough ! Thou hast con- vinced me that no human being can ever be a Poet . ' Unhappily , you suc- ceeded in convincing ...
... Muses . Your training in all the mechanics and metaphysics of criticism might have made you exclaim , like Rasselas , Enough ! Thou hast con- vinced me that no human being can ever be a Poet . ' Unhappily , you suc- ceeded in convincing ...
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admirers Alemanni Alexandre Dumas angler Athene Benfeius burn Byron called Catullus Chapelain clepen comedy concerning Herodotus Coqcigrues cries critic dawn DEAD AUTHORS dear Dickens didst thou Dombey and Son drink dwell Egypt England Englishmen evil fair fancy Farewell Father fortunate France Françoys Rabelais friends genius Gods grave happy hath heart heathen HERMES Homer honour Horace human humour immortal John Chalkhill knew ladies land laugh laughter laurel learned letters literary live Lond Lord Byron Lucian Maître Françoys matter Medes methinks Molière Muellerus Muscovy Muses never Panurge Pierre de Ronsard poems poet poetry Pope popular Porthos praise priest Prince prose Rabelais Ronsard Rose Sam Weller satire Shelley sing song Sophocles speak sweet taste tell thee Theocritus Théophile Gautier thine things thou didst thou wert thou wouldst Thresoure trout turn verse wandering wine write Ynde Zeus
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