The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
Pagina 12
... meaning , whatever it be , which it now bears . Of all the passages in which poets have exem- plified their own ... mean specimens of metaphysical The stanzas against knowledge pro- poetry . duce little conviction . In those which ...
... meaning , whatever it be , which it now bears . Of all the passages in which poets have exem- plified their own ... mean specimens of metaphysical The stanzas against knowledge pro- poetry . duce little conviction . In those which ...
Pagina 15
... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors ha : been shown ; For though I have ...
... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors ha : been shown ; For though I have ...
Pagina 16
... mean in the materials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise ; of which it may be said with truth , no man but Cowley could have written them . er of human genius to dignify . The miracle of creation , however ...
... mean in the materials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise ; of which it may be said with truth , no man but Cowley could have written them . er of human genius to dignify . The miracle of creation , however ...
Pagina 18
... means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal ...
... means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal ...
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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