"Carew" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to many of the contemporaries who have been often grouped with him. He has little in common with the courtly elegance, the learned polish, which too rarely redeem commonplace and conceits in Carew, Habington, Lovelace, Cowley, or Waller. Herrick has his CONCETTI also: but they are in him generally true plays of fancy; he writes throughout far more naturally than these lyrists, who, on the other hand, in their unfrequent successes reach ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... L.B. Thunder retiring, with rainbow. Dead calm, | Nottingham. with heat. | | L. About three o'clock, summer. Air very | Bingen. cool and clear. Exhausted thunder-clouds | low on hills. | | F. Descending sunbeams through soft clouds, | Carew Castle. after rain. | | L. Afternoon, very clear, after rain. A few | Saltash. clouds still on horizon. Dead calm. | | F. Afternoon of cloudless day, with heat. | Mercury ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin
... Tuesday.—POLE-CAREW had rather a bad time of it. Attacked in sharp succession by land and sea. Began at Question time. He merely asked whether two divisions and the cavalry brigade in Ireland, which took part in manoeuvres last year, weren't rather a scrubby lot of immature boys unfit for public service. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 • Various |
