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 2
... natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
Pagina 4
... natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it ...
... natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it ...
Pagina 11
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets : of whom ...
... nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets : of whom ...
Pagina 12
... nature and art are ransacked for illustrations , comparisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires ...
... nature and art are ransacked for illustrations , comparisons , and allusions ; their learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires ...
Pagina 13
... nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who dissects a sun - beam with a prism , can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon . What they wanted , however , of the sublime , they endeà- voured to supply by hyperbole ; their ...
... nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who dissects a sun - beam with a prism , can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon . What they wanted , however , of the sublime , they endeà- voured to supply by hyperbole ; their ...
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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.