The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - 1157 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... says , " I have ever judged more noble , and of greater dignity , than any other verfe in ufe amongst us . " He was now fo much diftinguished , that on the death of Davenant in 1668 , he was made Poet- Laureat . The fame year he ...
... says , " I have ever judged more noble , and of greater dignity , than any other verfe in ufe amongst us . " He was now fo much diftinguished , that on the death of Davenant in 1668 , he was made Poet- Laureat . The fame year he ...
Pagina vii
... says , in his dedication to Lord Clifford , " of a fickly age , worn cut with fudy , and oppreffed by fortune , without other fupport than the conftancy and patience of a Chriftian . " It was cenfured by Milbourne , a clergyman , ftyled ...
... says , in his dedication to Lord Clifford , " of a fickly age , worn cut with fudy , and oppreffed by fortune , without other fupport than the conftancy and patience of a Chriftian . " It was cenfured by Milbourne , a clergyman , ftyled ...
Pagina viii
... not justify them to you , I know your's are far different . For the fame reason , I shall say nothing of my principles of state ; I believe you in your's follow the dictates of your reafon , as I , in mine , viii THE LIFE OF DRYDEN .
... not justify them to you , I know your's are far different . For the fame reason , I shall say nothing of my principles of state ; I believe you in your's follow the dictates of your reafon , as I , in mine , viii THE LIFE OF DRYDEN .
Pagina xii
... say so much . But , in Dryden's hands , the English rhyming couplet affumed a new form , and feems hardly to be susceptible of any farther improvement . " His poetical character is given by Dr. Johnson , with a fagacity of ...
... say so much . But , in Dryden's hands , the English rhyming couplet affumed a new form , and feems hardly to be susceptible of any farther improvement . " His poetical character is given by Dr. Johnson , with a fagacity of ...
Pagina 55
... d : But deftiny is now their only foe , And dying ev'n o'er that they triumph too ; With loud laft breaths their maler's fcape applaud D ) iiij At his own fafety now almost repin'd ! Say , Part 11 . ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
... d : But deftiny is now their only foe , And dying ev'n o'er that they triumph too ; With loud laft breaths their maler's fcape applaud D ) iiij At his own fafety now almost repin'd ! Say , Part 11 . ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6 Robert Anderson Volledige weergave - 1795 |
The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6 Robert Anderson Volledige weergave - 1795 |
The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6 Robert Anderson Volledige weergave - 1795 |
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Pagina 168 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Pagina 264 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Pagina 147 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Pagina 106 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
Pagina 41 - 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 233 - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
Pagina 133 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Pagina 215 - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Pagina 176 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.