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Pagina viii
... Poetical Character read The Poetical Calendar . vol . iii , p . 359 , app . T , last line but one , for Whitfield read Whitefield . In the Notes , all cross - references to passages in the Lives give the number of the paragraph of the ...
... Poetical Character read The Poetical Calendar . vol . iii , p . 359 , app . T , last line but one , for Whitfield read Whitefield . In the Notes , all cross - references to passages in the Lives give the number of the paragraph of the ...
Pagina 3
... poetical compositions , & c . , 1719. By Jonathan Richardson . See Northcote's Reynolds , i . 14 , and Leslie and Taylor's Reynolds , i . 9 . Reynolds told Malone that ' the first book that gave him a turn for painting was the Jesuit's ...
... poetical compositions , & c . , 1719. By Jonathan Richardson . See Northcote's Reynolds , i . 14 , and Leslie and Taylor's Reynolds , i . 9 . Reynolds told Malone that ' the first book that gave him a turn for painting was the Jesuit's ...
Pagina 4
... poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby 5 , of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ambitious , and Naufragium Foculare ' , a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it is ...
... poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby 5 , of whose acquaintance all his contemporaries seem to have been ambitious , and Naufragium Foculare ' , a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it is ...
Pagina 10
... poetical capacity , my resolution at present is never to exercise any more that faculty . It is , I confess , but seldom seen that the poet dies before the man . ' Eng . Poets , vii . II . 5 Fasti Oxon . ii . 210 . the power of his ...
... poetical capacity , my resolution at present is never to exercise any more that faculty . It is , I confess , but seldom seen that the poet dies before the man . ' Eng . Poets , vii . II . 5 Fasti Oxon . ii . 210 . the power of his ...
Pagina 22
... Poetical Works ( ed . V Aldis Wright ) , p . 23 . 7 6 ' Wit , ' said Gray , ' had gone en tirely out of fashion since the reign of Charles II . ' Mitford's Gray , v . 39 . amples , and I have therefore collected instances of the 22 COWLEY.
... Poetical Works ( ed . V Aldis Wright ) , p . 23 . 7 6 ' Wit , ' said Gray , ' had gone en tirely out of fashion since the reign of Charles II . ' Mitford's Gray , v . 39 . amples , and I have therefore collected instances of the 22 COWLEY.
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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.