The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . • Consulting , the ...
... manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . • Consulting , the ...
Pagina 7
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
Pagina 13
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac ...
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac ...
Pagina 14
... manner of speaking " . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I ...
... manner of speaking " . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I ...
Pagina 15
... manner of sub- jects . " But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which ...
... manner of sub- jects . " But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young