Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated in Ancient and Modern PoetryTicknor and Fields, 1857 - 517 Seiten |
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... talents of a lover , and consigned to en- during fame and perpetuity of praise , the passion was real , and was merited ; that no deep or lasting interest was ever founded in fancy or in fiction ; that truth , in short , is the basis of ...
... talents of a lover , and consigned to en- during fame and perpetuity of praise , the passion was real , and was merited ; that no deep or lasting interest was ever founded in fancy or in fiction ; that truth , in short , is the basis of ...
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... talents for music and poetry ; but not as if they added to her charms or enhanced her value in his estimation . The Lesbia * of Catullus , * Clodia , the wife of Quintus Metellus Celer whose eyes were red with weeping the loss of her ...
... talents for music and poetry ; but not as if they added to her charms or enhanced her value in his estimation . The Lesbia * of Catullus , * Clodia , the wife of Quintus Metellus Celer whose eyes were red with weeping the loss of her ...
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... talents , and loved for the gentleness of his manners , he heard con- tinually the praises of a certain Countess of Tri- poli , famed throughout Europe for her munificent hospitality to the poor Crusaders . The pilgrims and soldiers of ...
... talents , and loved for the gentleness of his manners , he heard con- tinually the praises of a certain Countess of Tri- poli , famed throughout Europe for her munificent hospitality to the poor Crusaders . The pilgrims and soldiers of ...
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... lady , however , either misunderstood her instructions , or found it too difficult to obey them : the seducing talents and tender verses of this gentil Troubadour prevailed over her dignity : -Peyrols was 44 THE LOVES OF.
... lady , however , either misunderstood her instructions , or found it too difficult to obey them : the seducing talents and tender verses of this gentil Troubadour prevailed over her dignity : -Peyrols was 44 THE LOVES OF.
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... talents , to the cultivation of philosophy and the fine arts , the extension of learn- ing and liberty , and the general improvement of mankind . " I doubt this , and I appeal to Petrarch himself . I believe there is no version into ...
... talents , to the cultivation of philosophy and the fine arts , the extension of learn- ing and liberty , and the general improvement of mankind . " I doubt this , and I appeal to Petrarch himself . I believe there is no version into ...
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addressed admiration affection afterwards alludes amiable amore appears Ariosto attachment battle of Pavia Beatrice beauty Canzone Castara celebrated character charms Chaucer CONJUGAL POETRY Countess court Dante daughter death delight died Donne doth Duchess Earl earth elegant Elizabeth expression exquisite eyes fair fame fancy feeling female genius gentle glory grace grief Habington happiness hath heart heaven honor husband imagination inspired Ischia Italian Klopstock Lady Sunderland Laura Leonora Leonora Baroni letters lines lived look Lord Lyttelton lover Lucy Madame Madame de Staël marriage married Meta mind mistress mother never noble passion person Pescara Petrarch poems poet poetical Pope praise Queen Robert Drury Saint Lambert says sentiment smiles song Sonnet soul Spenser spirit Stella style sweet talents Tasso tears tenderness thee thing thou thought tion Troubadours truth VERONICA GAMBARA verse virtue Vittoria Colonna Voltaire wife woman women wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 188 - 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.
Seite 502 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Seite 253 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know • Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows...
Seite 185 - The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath?
Seite 268 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Seite 391 - And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Seite 188 - ... 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. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Seite 178 - And blesses her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain...
Seite 417 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Seite 428 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home.