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... ( meaning a higher or organic unity ) was " the grand masterpiece to observe " in poetry.1 It is upon this text of Phillips ( as Chalmers has remarked ) that Joseph Warton bases his classifi- cation of poets in the dedication to Young of ...
... ( meaning a higher or organic unity ) was " the grand masterpiece to observe " in poetry.1 It is upon this text of Phillips ( as Chalmers has remarked ) that Joseph Warton bases his classifi- cation of poets in the dedication to Young of ...
Pagina 9
... meaning from profound thought or power- ful emotion . Yet this very devotion to expression at the expense of everything else , though its ex- cesses were fatal to the innovators who preached and practised it , may not have been without ...
... meaning from profound thought or power- ful emotion . Yet this very devotion to expression at the expense of everything else , though its ex- cesses were fatal to the innovators who preached and practised it , may not have been without ...
Pagina 14
... did the Grecian stage . " It is a curious comment on these verses in favor of careful writing , that Waller should have failed even to express his own meaning either clearly or 99 with propriety . He talks of " cultivating our 14 POPE.
... did the Grecian stage . " It is a curious comment on these verses in favor of careful writing , that Waller should have failed even to express his own meaning either clearly or 99 with propriety . He talks of " cultivating our 14 POPE.
Pagina 15
... manifest reminiscence of 1 Usually printed arms , but Dryden certainly wrote arm , to correspond with dint , which he used in its old meaning of a down- right blow . Waller's verse in the half - scornful emphasis which Dryden POPE 15.
... manifest reminiscence of 1 Usually printed arms , but Dryden certainly wrote arm , to correspond with dint , which he used in its old meaning of a down- right blow . Waller's verse in the half - scornful emphasis which Dryden POPE 15.
Pagina 77
... . I confess a very grave doubt whether " attention " and " ordered " in the passages cited have any other than their ordinary 1 Book I. 562-567 . 2 Ibid . 615-618 meaning , and Milton could never have looked on at MILTON 77.
... . I confess a very grave doubt whether " attention " and " ordered " in the passages cited have any other than their ordinary 1 Book I. 562-567 . 2 Ibid . 615-618 meaning , and Milton could never have looked on at MILTON 77.
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Pagina 45 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Pagina 110 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Pagina 39 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Pagina 45 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Pagina 332 - Selinns all alone With blossoms brave bedecked daintily, Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath that under heaven is blown.
Pagina 38 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Pagina 294 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Pagina 41 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no...
Pagina 85 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Pagina 44 - Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.