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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived About the Time of Shakspeare; With Notes by C. Lamb
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakspeare With Notes by C Lamb Author:Charles Lamb General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1808 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Byron's Conspiracy. By Geo. Chapman. Byron described. he is a man Of matchless valour, and was ever happy In all encounters, which were still made good With an unwearied sense of any toil; Having continued fourteen days together Upon his horse : his blood is not voluptuous, Xor much inclin'd to women ; his desires Are higher than his state ; and his deserts Not much short of the most he can desire, If they be weigh'd with what France feels by them. He is past measure glorious : and that humour Is fit to feed his spirit, whom it possesseth With faith in any error; chiefly where Men blow it up with praise of his perfections : The taste whereof in him so soothes his palate, And takes up all his appetite, that oft times He will refuse his meat, and company, To feast alone with their most strong conceit. Ambition also cheek by cheek doth march With that excess of glory, both sustain'd With an unlimited fancy, that the king, Nor France itself, without him can subsist. Men's Glories eclipsed when they turn Traitors. As when the moon hath comforted the night, And set the world in silver of her light, The planets, asterisms, and whole State of Heaven, In beams of gold descending: all the winds Bound up in caves, charg'd not to drive abroad Their cloudy heads: an universal peace (Proclaim'd in silence) of the quiet earth : Soon as her hot and dry fumes are let loose, Storms and clouds mixing suddenly put out , The eyes of all those glories; the creation Turn'd :1i : 94 BYRON'S CONSPIRACY, Turn'd into Chaos; and we then desire, For all our joy of life, the deat...« less