The Times' Whistle: Or, A New Daunce of Seven Satires: And Other Poems, Ausgabe 12;Ausgabe 20;Ausgabe 48;Ausgabe 84Joseph Meadows Cowper Early English Text Society, 1871 - 178 Seiten |
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Seite xxi - Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night ! View here the blood that trickles from mine arm, And let it be propitious for my wish.
Seite ix - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Seite xii - But it cannot be to him that the poem refers. Had he been " struck mute with fear " he would have been spared such taunts as " Now come we to the wonderment Of Christendom, and eke of Kent, The Trinity ; which to surpass, Doth deck her spokesman by a glass : Who, clad in gay and silken weeds, Thus opes his mouth, hark how he speeds. " I wonder what your grace doth here, Who have expected been twelve year, 1 I am indebted to Mr Furnivall for the following : — In the Sale Catalogue of Lilly's books...
Seite xxii - Envy waits on my back, Truth on my side; Envy will be my page, and Truth my guide. Envy the margent holds, and Truth the line. Truth doth approve, but Envy doth repine.
Seite xxii - Mask'd in the show of meal-mouth'd poesies. Go, daring Muse, on with thy thankless task, And do the ugly face of Vice unmask : And if thou canst not thine high flight remit. So as it mought a lowly satire fit, Let lowly satires rise aloft to thee : Truth be thy speed, and Truth thy patron be.
Seite xv - In no record of his life is there the sligbtest trace of malevolence or tyranny : "he was," says Fuller*, "of a courteous carriage, and no destructive nature to any who offended him, counting himself plentifully repaired with a jest upon him.
Seite xv - of a courteous carriage, and no destructive nature to any who offended him, counting himself plentifully repaired with a jest upon him.' Benevolent, generous, and spirited in his public character ; sincere, amiable, and affectionate in private life ; correct, eloquent, and ingenious as a poet...
Seite xxxviii - Now let them drynke, tyll they nod and winke, even as good felowes shoulde doe; They shall not mysse, to have the blisse good ale doth bringe men to; And all poore soules that have scowred boules or have them lustely trolde, God save the lyves, of them and theyr wyves whether they be yonge or olde.
Seite ii - NEW YORK: C. SCRIBNER & CO.; LEYPOLDT & HOLT. PHILADELPHIA : JB LIPPINCOTT & CO.
Seite xix - The strength of his fancy, and the shadowing of it in words, he taketh from Mr Marlow in his Hero and Leander, whose mighty lines Mr Benjamin Johnson (a man sensible enough of his own abilities') was often heard to say, that they were Examples fitter for admiration than for parallel, you shall find our Author every where in this imitation.