English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... poets , but something sprung from an impulse which is not reducible to law . " If this state- ment is correct , literature forms a singular exception to what has seemed a universal rule . When we consider Mrs. Oliphant's delightful ...
... poets , but something sprung from an impulse which is not reducible to law . " If this state- ment is correct , literature forms a singular exception to what has seemed a universal rule . When we consider Mrs. Oliphant's delightful ...
Pagina xi
... Poets : Cowley , Donne , Waller . - The Couplet Suc- ceeding the Stanza . - Davenant's " Gondibert . " V. The Neglect of Milton .... ― CHAPTER II . - Page 1 I. Number of Books Printed at End of Seventeenth Century . - Interest in ...
... Poets : Cowley , Donne , Waller . - The Couplet Suc- ceeding the Stanza . - Davenant's " Gondibert . " V. The Neglect of Milton .... ― CHAPTER II . - Page 1 I. Number of Books Printed at End of Seventeenth Century . - Interest in ...
Pagina 14
... poets - a Musæus whose name alone has come down to us . Scaliger imagined that he meant the author of " Hero and Leander " -the poem which was paraphrased rather than translated by Marlowe and Chapman , begun , that is , by Marlowe and ...
... poets - a Musæus whose name alone has come down to us . Scaliger imagined that he meant the author of " Hero and Leander " -the poem which was paraphrased rather than translated by Marlowe and Chapman , begun , that is , by Marlowe and ...
Pagina 22
... poets , as if metaphysics were sy- nonymous with obscurity . According to him , " They were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamen- tation of sorrow . Their wish ...
... poets , as if metaphysics were sy- nonymous with obscurity . According to him , " They were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamen- tation of sorrow . Their wish ...
Pagina 24
... poets , who when they wrote for the court racked heaven and earth for all sorts of conceits , wrote plays which are models of dignity and vigor : Beaumont is an instance . In fact , it is impossible to overlook a certain resemblance ...
... poets , who when they wrote for the court racked heaven and earth for all sorts of conceits , wrote plays which are models of dignity and vigor : Beaumont is an instance . In fact , it is impossible to overlook a certain resemblance ...
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Pagina 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Pagina 249 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Pagina 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 435 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Pagina 137 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 63 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Pagina 393 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Pagina 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Pagina 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...