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Pagina xvii
... admiration for the ' rare genius , the wise and pure enthusiasm , and the exalted beneficence of that great man ' was conspicuous . The strong religious utter- ances occurring in the letters expressed thoughts which were not Birkbeck ...
... admiration for the ' rare genius , the wise and pure enthusiasm , and the exalted beneficence of that great man ' was conspicuous . The strong religious utter- ances occurring in the letters expressed thoughts which were not Birkbeck ...
Pagina 21
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions_not descending to minuteness . It is with ...
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions_not descending to minuteness . It is with ...
Pagina 23
... admired than understood they sometimes drew their loo often we ' conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by to unkno common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ...
... admired than understood they sometimes drew their loo often we ' conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by to unkno common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ...
Pagina 29
... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
... admire No sun , but warm's devotion at our fire : He'd leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give ...
Pagina 33
... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an unequalled rais fertility of invention : I Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of ...
... admired . What Cowley has written upon Hope shews an unequalled rais fertility of invention : I Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed , and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of ...
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Pagina 163 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Pagina 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Pagina 20 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Pagina 78 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 100 - 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 excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pagina 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Pagina 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
Pagina 136 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
Pagina 440 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.