...dead oak, but let it not be compared with the living one. " Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty has imparted a fuller...acquisition of a kingdom, and not unlike it in kind : tie senses ill both cases are confused and perverted." Walter Savage Landor, — euge et vale ! —...

...dead oak, but let it not be compared with the living one. " Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy; yet the most plaintive ditty has imparted a fuller...longer duration, to its composer, than the conquest oi Persia to the Macedonian, A bottle of wine bringeth as much pleasure as the acquisition of a kingdom,...

...sweet as melancholy." And Landor very correctly observes, " Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty has imparted a fuller...composer, than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian." If poets may possess some enjoyment ; if, to use the language of Burns — " Such is the fate of simple...

...wretchedness, and affords us greatly more than their enjoyment Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty has imparted a fuller...senses in both cases are confused and perverted.' — vol. ip 25. A moral reflection is well compressed in the ensuing sentence : — ' We must distinguish...

...compared with the living one. Poets are in general prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller joy, and of longer duration, to...conquest of Persia to the Macedonian. A bottle of wine bringethas much pleasure as the acquisition of a kingdom, and not unlike it in kind : the senses in...

...eonquest of Persia to the Maeedonian. A bottle of wine bringeth as mueh pleasure as the aequisition of a kingdom, and not unlike it in kind : the senses in both eases are eonfused and perverted. Brooke. Mereiful heaven ! and for the fruition of- an hour's drunkenness,...

...Poets are in general prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller jov, and of longer duration, to its composer, than the...the senses in both cases are confused and perverted. lirooke. Merciful heaven .' and for the fruition of an hour's drunkenness, from which they must awaken...

...melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller joy, and of longer duration, to it« composer, than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian....the senses in both cases are confused and perverted. Bnvkt. Merciful heaven ! and for the fruition of an hour's drunkenness, from which they must awaken...

...eternal. LVI. Sidney. Poets are in general prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller joy, and of longer duration, to...composer, than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian. LVII. Many can rule and more can fight, But few give myriad hearts delight. LVIII. Marvel. With the...

...eternal. LVI. Sidney. Poets are in general prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller joy, and of longer duration, to...composer, than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian. LVII. Many can rule and more can fight, But few give myriad hearts delight. LVIII. Marvel. With the...