The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... whole en- deavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... whole en- deavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
Pagina 7
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in pos ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in pos ...
Pagina 10
... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and ...
... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and ...
Pagina 16
... whole Da- videis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . " There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read ...
... whole Da- videis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . " There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read ...
Pagina 17
... whole work is very imperfectly shown by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shown but upon few occasions , the full ex- tent and the nice discriminations ...
... whole work is very imperfectly shown by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shown but upon few occasions , the full ex- tent and the nice discriminations ...
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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