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David Gray, and Other Essays; Chiefly on Poetry

David Gray, and Other Essays; Chiefly on Poetry

Buchanan, Robert Williams

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150657898
ISBN13: 9781150657894
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.15 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... OULD we quit Babylon, to while away an hour in Fairyland, among Titania and her maids of honour? We have only to take up the Hesperides of Robert Herrick. It is merely a piece of sweet and careless dissipation--the poetical epitome of a fanciful brain, and a tender, happy heart. Its author squandered all his genius in flower-painting, music-making, and sporting in the shade with Amaryllis; but his book exists, full of the author and his peccadilloes; a book to be cherished by lovers of lyrics; a pretty souvenir of a jovial verse-writer who lived and made innocent love in a cassock, who tippled Simon the King's canary with Ben the laureate and Selden the antiquary, and who lived a hot-headed poet's life, not the life of a philosopher, in the quiet woodland ways. It teems with that luscious physical life which abounded in the man who wrote it; it is full of his idle fancies, his naughty sayings, and his wooings of women in the abstract. A more exceptionable book than The Complete Angler, its shortcomings spring, like the other's racy morality, from a nature which means happiness and candour. The Hesperides is, perhaps, the most musical collection of occasional verses in the language. Pretty thoughts and sounds, controlled and regulated by principles of most magical harmony, wreathe magically from the quaint old book, singing and dancing, smiling and shining, perpetuating the memory of Herrick, the kindly clerical Prospero who created them. Glad verses, sad verses, mad verses, and (in a strait-laced sense) bad verses, fill these pages, melting and sighing and dying in a thousand flats and sharps of melody. A book of all moods and measures, a rainbow blended of a thousand different colours; a thing both of sable and of tinsel, of beautiful shreds an...

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