The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age; a Series of Anecdotes Intended to Illustrate the Influence which Female Beauty and Virtue Have Exercised Over the Characters and Writings of Men of Genius, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1837 - Women in literature |
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... Lucy Sydney , the younger sister of Sacharissa . It will be allowed that it argues more wit and good nature than love or sorrow ; and that he was resolved that the willow should sit as gracefully and lightly on his brow 22 SACHARISSA .
... Lucy Sydney , the younger sister of Sacharissa . It will be allowed that it argues more wit and good nature than love or sorrow ; and that he was resolved that the willow should sit as gracefully and lightly on his brow 22 SACHARISSA .
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... nature so tender and sensible as yours , " & c . After touching lightly and delicately on the obvious sources of consolation , he reminds her , that her duty to the dead requires her to be careful of herself , and not hazard her very ex ...
... nature so tender and sensible as yours , " & c . After touching lightly and delicately on the obvious sources of consolation , he reminds her , that her duty to the dead requires her to be careful of herself , and not hazard her very ex ...
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... nature suffi- cient to pardon his infirmities . " It was Dryden's misfortune , that Lady Elizabeth had neither one nor the other . Of all our really great poets , Dryden is the one least indebted to woman , and to whom , in return ...
... nature suffi- cient to pardon his infirmities . " It was Dryden's misfortune , that Lady Elizabeth had neither one nor the other . Of all our really great poets , Dryden is the one least indebted to woman , and to whom , in return ...
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... natural : if it was spoken with petulance and bitterness , it de- served the repartee ; if with tenderness and play- fulness , the wit of the reply can scarcely excuse its ill - nature . Addison married the Countess of Warwick . Poor ...
... natural : if it was spoken with petulance and bitterness , it de- served the repartee ; if with tenderness and play- fulness , the wit of the reply can scarcely excuse its ill - nature . Addison married the Countess of Warwick . Poor ...
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... nature , and fortune combined , ever lavished on one of her sex , paid for her celebrity with her happiness : for thus it has ever been , and must ever be , in this world of ours , " où les plus belles choses ont le pire destin . " Her ...
... nature , and fortune combined , ever lavished on one of her sex , paid for her celebrity with her happiness : for thus it has ever been , and must ever be , in this world of ours , " où les plus belles choses ont le pire destin . " Her ...
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addressed admiration affection afterwards Allan Cunningham alludes amiable attachment Barry Cornwall battle of Pavia beauty Bonnie Jean Burns Castara celebrated character charms Clotilde CONJUGAL POETRY CONTINUED Countess daughter death died Donne Duchess Duchess of Ormond Earl elegant elegy Epistle expressed eyes fair fame fancy feeling female fond French genius gentle grace grief Habington happiness heart heaven heroines honour husband inspired interest Ischia Klopstock Lady Mary Lady Sunderland letters lines lived Lord Lyttelton lover Lucy Madame d'Epinay Madame d'Houdetot Madame du Châtelet marriage married Martha Meta mind Monti mother muse never passion person Pescara Petrarch poem poet poetess poetical Pope praise Sacharissa Saint-Lambert satire says sentiment song Sonnet soul spirit Stella sweet Swift talents taste tears tenderness thee thou thought tion truth Vanessa Veronica VERONICA GAMBARA verse virtue Vittoria Colonna Voltaire Waller wife woman women wrote young youth
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Page 344 - A countenance in which did meet 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.
Page 12 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 185 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Page 284 - Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; She, who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys ; Let fops or fortune fly which way they will; Disdains all loss of tickets, or codille; Spleen, vapours, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall.
Page 41 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.
Page 12 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 278 - Why bade ye else, ye powers! her soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes, The glorious fault of angels and of gods: Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Page 239 - 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.
Page 34 - I meant to make her fair, and free, and wise, Of greatest blood, and yet more good than great; I meant the day-star should not brighter rise, Nor lend like influence from his lucent seat. I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. Hating that solemn vice of greatness, pride; I meant each softest virtue there should meet, Fit in that softer bosom to reside. Only a learned and a manly soul I purposed her, that should, with even powers, The rock, the spindle, and the shears control Of destiny,...
Page 9 - Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale, when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more where those stars light, That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there Fixed become as in their sphere. Ask me no more if east or west The phoenix builds her spicy nest; For unto you at last she flies, And in your fragrant bosom dies.