During that month he wrote the Monody on Sheridan, The Dream, Churchill's Grave, the Sonnet to Lake Leman, Could I remount the River of my Years, part of Manfred, Prometheus, the Stanzas to Augusta, beginning, My sister!

The Pursuit of Fire Reader, if by chance you have the habit of writingwhether they be sermons to hurl across your pews, or sonnets in the Springdoubtless you have moments when you sit at your desk bare of thoughts.

It is very pretty, and you seem to think so, but, may be, overlooked its chief merit, that of filling up a whole page, I had once deemed sonnets of unrivalled use that way, but your Epitaphs, I find, are the more diffuse.

Says Milton, in his sonnet on Cromwell: "Yet much remains To conquer still; Peace hath her victories

Sonnet I. Lamb cites the sonnets from Astrophel and Stella, in his own order.

V. The sonnets by Campanella translated in this volume might be rearranged under four headingsPhilosophical; Political; Prophetic; Personal.

Or they found a patron and gave him a sugared sonnet for a pittance, or strained themselves to the length of an Ode for a berth in his household.

Compare the three last lines of this sonnet with the three last lines of No. XV.

"He consumed his time in writing verses to the canon's niece; and even as Hercules in the gay court of Omphale threw down his club in order to hold the distaff, so Abélard laid aside his sceptre as a monarch of the schools to sing sonnets at the feet of Héloïse."

It is recorded and attested, even by Dante himself, that at the early age of nine he fell in love with Beatrice,a little girl of one of his neighbors,and that he wrote to her sonnets as the mistress of his devotion.

This was an anticipationperhaps the originof Milton's sonnet about his own house, addressed to "Captains and Collonels," during the civil war.

He turned the tail of the sonnet into the air, like those Japanese fish of polychrome clay which rest on stands, their heads straight down, their tails on top.

No songs like those which come from electing love; no sonnets like those that are dictated by meditations on discriminating mercy.

There are certain sonnets among those he wrote which give a very good notion of his great inventive power and judgment.

it's all over; but never mind, I got two sonnets out of her'which seemed to me an exhibition of the worst side of his artist disposition, and whichwell, Reader, jarred much on one who already knew what a true love meant.

They are never drunkards or wife-beaters; they don't drag their business to the dinner-table and bed; they are not given to profane speech; and they show greater interest in a sonnet than in the price of pork.

Sometimes his satire becomes malignant, as in the sonnet against the people of Pistoja, which breathes the spirit of Dantesque invective.

He wrote the sonnets towards 1581: in 1583 he married another lady, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham.

I can fancy that a writer after spending a morning in the composition of a political article on the whisper of a Cabinet Minister, wrote a sonnet after lunch, and a book review before dinner.

How could he have written sonnets without an inspiration, unless he felt sentiments higher than we associate with either boys or girls?