Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works ... In Two VolumesWilliam Milner., 1835 |
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... perhaps has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to ex- clude diffidence and shame , by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
... perhaps has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to ex- clude diffidence and shame , by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
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... perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had ...
... perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making apologies for his bad play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had ...
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... perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspi- cuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less ...
... perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspi- cuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less ...
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... perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much fre- quented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair ...
... perhaps more desirous of being admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much fre- quented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair ...
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... perhaps cry out - Confusion worse confounded ! Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here ; She gives the best light to his sphere ; Or each is both , and all ; and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne would have ...
... perhaps cry out - Confusion worse confounded ! Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here ; She gives the best light to his sphere ; Or each is both , and all ; and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but Donne would have ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration Æneid afterwards appears beauties better blank verse called Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden duke earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius georgic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden kind king known labour lady language Latin learning less lines lived lord lord Conway ment Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced published racter reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems seldom sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller whigs words write written wrote
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Seite 304 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 34 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Seite 120 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, . by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Seite 281 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Seite 412 - ... irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him, but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried; when he found his life near its end, he directed the young lord to be called, and when he desired with great tenderness to hear his last injunctions, told him, "I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
Seite 58 - No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other. His thoughts are natural, and his style has a smooth and placid equability, which has never yet obtained its due commendation. Nothing is far-sought, or hard-laboured ; but all is easy without feebleness, and familiar without grossness.
Seite 77 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice- are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Seite 437 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 32 - Hither with crystal vials, lovers, come, And take my tears, which are love's wine, And try your mistress' tears at home ; For all are false, that taste not just like mine.
Seite 433 - Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction...