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... Elfrida , published in 1752 . Elfrida is very , very far from a contemptible piece of workmanship : it is manifestly the production of a scholar and a gentleman , of an ardent lover of poetry , and platonic innamorato of abstract virtue ...
... Elfrida , published in 1752 . Elfrida is very , very far from a contemptible piece of workmanship : it is manifestly the production of a scholar and a gentleman , of an ardent lover of poetry , and platonic innamorato of abstract virtue ...
Side 268
... Elfrida . + Had I intended to give an exact copy of the ancient drama , your objections to the present poem would be unanswerable . " ( What objections does not appear , but may easily be guessed . ) " I only meant to 66 * It would not ...
... Elfrida . + Had I intended to give an exact copy of the ancient drama , your objections to the present poem would be unanswerable . " ( What objections does not appear , but may easily be guessed . ) " I only meant to 66 * It would not ...
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... Elfrida with a wish , at least , that it might be represented ; for there is no possible reason why a poem in dialogue , interspersed with lyrics , having a beginning , middle , and end , if written for the closet , should be more ...
... Elfrida with a wish , at least , that it might be represented ; for there is no possible reason why a poem in dialogue , interspersed with lyrics , having a beginning , middle , and end , if written for the closet , should be more ...
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... Mason . Had his translation and commentary existed when the Elfrida was published , Mason would have altered many things in his epistles . : smallest resemblance to actual conversation . But he had 284 WILLIAM MASON .
... Mason . Had his translation and commentary existed when the Elfrida was published , Mason would have altered many things in his epistles . : smallest resemblance to actual conversation . But he had 284 WILLIAM MASON .
Side 285
... Elfrida " appeared in 1751 , " Caractacus in 1759 , and Mason's genius grew wonderfully in those eight years . 99 His " Elfrida " labours under the disadvantage of an ill - chosen story : a story scarcely familiar or important enough ...
... Elfrida " appeared in 1751 , " Caractacus in 1759 , and Mason's genius grew wonderfully in those eight years . 99 His " Elfrida " labours under the disadvantage of an ill - chosen story : a story scarcely familiar or important enough ...
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Side 36 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Side 117 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Side 48 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Side 341 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Side 36 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Side 340 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Side 78 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Side 47 - All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadethr because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Side 112 - Amongst all the benefits that God hath blessed me withal, next the knowledge of Christ's true religion, I count this the greatest, that it pleased God to call me to be one poor minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning...
Side 116 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...