The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. SheffieldB. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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Pagina 6
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country , and ...
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country , and ...
Pagina 10
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
Pagina 11
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
Pagina 14
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
Pagina 17
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . ¡ So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . ¡ So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
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Pagina 64 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pagina 98 - 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 49 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Pagina 25 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pagina 61 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pagina 387 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pagina 252 - ... vigorous; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently; but while he forces himself upon our esteem, we cannot refuse him to stand high in his own.
Pagina 268 - Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Pagina 80 - Lost, could descend from his elevation to rescue children from the perplexity of grammatical confusion, and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his conversation; attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays. Milton, who, in his letter to Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French...
Pagina 50 - 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.