Takings, Or, The Life of a Collegian: A PoemJohn Warren, 1821 - 184 pàgines |
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Takings, Or, The Life of a Collegian: A Poem Thomas Gaspey,Richard Dagley Visualització completa - 1821 |
Takings, Or, The Life of a Collegian: A Poem Thomas Gaspey,Richard Dagley Visualització completa - 1821 |
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Alderman Analysis of Beauty artist ASTOR Ave Maria bard Bond Street Bosky bosom burst called caricature caricaturist character charms claim comic Count Ugolino countenance cried dear Delia delight Despair distress Eliza END OF CANTO face fame fate fear felt fled Flykite folly gazed give hand happy heart Heaven hero Hogarth Hope hopes and fears humour John Warren kind knew laugh laughter LENOX AND TILDEN London look'd lover ludicrous in art Margate Marriage A-la-mode melancholy mind Mirth musing ne'er never night o'er once painting pencil pleasure poem poet praise profes Published by John pursued rage rapture rhyme ridicule satire scenes seem'd sire song soon sorrow sought stare Takeall TAKING talents tear tell thing thought TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Tom's Twas Twill wish'd XVIII XXVII YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Pàgina 11 - I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspeare :' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, ' Hogarth/ His graphic representations are indeed books; they have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at—his prints we read.
Pàgina 21 - But wad ye see him in his glee, For meikle glee and fun has he, Then set him down, and twa or three Gude fellows wi' him; And port! O port! shine thou a wee, And then ye'll see him.
Pàgina 3 - Through every scene of ridicule in things, To lead the tenor of my devious lay; Through every swift occasion, which the hand Of laughter points at, when the mirthful sting Distends her sallying nerves, and choaks her tongue, What were it but to count each
Pàgina 3 - her tongue, What were it but to count each crystal drop, Which morning's dewy fingers on the blooms Of May distil ? Suffice it to have said Where'er the power of ridicule displays Her quaint
Pàgina 14 - than esteemed ; but it is certainly an unfair mode of reasoning, to urge the abuse to which any art is liable, as an argument against the art itself.
Pàgina 113 - done, as I cannot now write Of folio volumes a thousand or two, I will not approach at this time of the night, For the terrible task I should never get through ; But just in a general way I may hint, Though Liberty's interests by you may prevail, Your agency giving opinions to print, Has doom'd many hundreds to languish in
Pàgina 2 - was at that very moment one of the most moving spectacles of human melancholy I ever witnessed.'
Pàgina 3 - visage, some incongruous form, Some stubborn dissonance of things combin'd, Strikes on the quick perception: whether
Pàgina 115 - to tell, Or whether most good or most harm you have done, And being uncertain, perhaps 'tis as well To finish my musings just where they begun. But, dear ABC, think not hostile my lay, In spite of misgivings attach'd to you still, A sword of defence I would not throw away, Because an assassin may use it to kill.
Pàgina 114 - mortal command More strange,—or had lightning submitted its gleam To be carried away in the pocket or hand. How mighty the change could you now be withdrawn! Full many a ranting MP would not spout, If no journal could issue the following dawn, To tell all the world what he spouted about. Poets, printers, and critics, and playwrights must go, With