Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse:... Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death ere thou has slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Know Celia, (since thou art so proud), 'Twas I that gave thee thy renowne:... Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd Of common beauties, liv'd unknowne, Had not my verse exhal'd thy name, And with it, ympt the wings of fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All ye poets of the age, All ye witlings of the stage,... Learn your jingles to reform, Crop your numbers to conform. Let your little verses flow Gently, sweetly, row by row; Let the verse the subject fit, Little subject, little wit. Namby-Pamby is your guide, Albion's joy, Hibernia's pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first,... and end by eating all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain The boundless Godhead; she did well disdain... That her eternal Verse employ'd should be On a less subject than Eternitie;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No far-fetched sigh shall ever wound my breast, Love from mine eye a tear shall never wring,... Nor in Ah me's my whining sonnets dressed, A libertine, fantastically I sing. My verse is the true image of my mind, Ever in motion, still desiring change;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus have I made my own opinions clear; Yet neither praise expect, nor censure fear:... And this unpolished, rugged verse I chose, As fittest for discourse and nearest prose;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is natural, now, to think of there being connected with a sign (name, combination of words, letter) besides that to which the s...ign refers, which may be called the reference of the sign, also what I should like to call the sense of the sign, wherein the mode of presentation is contained. In our example, accordingly, [an example in which lines a, b, and c all intersect at a single point] the reference of the expressions 'the point of intersection of a and b' and 'the point of intersection of b and c' would be the same, but not their senses. The reference of 'evening star' would be the same as that of 'morning star,' but not the sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »