The book Literary Frivolities Fancies Follies And Frolics was written by author William T Dobson Here you can read free online of Literary Frivolities Fancies Follies And Frolics book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Literary Frivolities Fancies Follies And Frolics a good or bad book?
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His bed amid my tender breast ; ]\Iy kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Strike I my lute — he tunes the string, He music plays, if I do sing ; He lends me every living thing. Yet cruel he my heart doth sting. What, if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod, He will repay me with annoy. Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be; Cupid ! so thou pity me, 1 will not wish to part from thee. MONOSYLLABIC VERSE. 157 Coleridge considered that ...the most beautiful verse, and also the most sublime, in the Bible was that in the book of Ezekiel which says — "And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. " Here are seventeen monosyllables, and only three words of two syllables. The author of the "Night Thoughts, " also, in a very impressive passage, says — " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time Save by its loss ; to give it then a tongue Was wise in man. " The following lines of Hall, satirising the vanity of those who take pleasure in adding house to house and field to field, — " Fond fool, six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more " — gave occasion for the historian Gibbon's apprecia- tive remark, " What harmonious monosyllables !
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