Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 40
... expression . The numbers are not always musical ; as , Fair Venus , in thy soft arms The god of rage confine : - For thy whispers are the charms Which only can divert his fierce design . " What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ...
... expression . The numbers are not always musical ; as , Fair Venus , in thy soft arms The god of rage confine : - For thy whispers are the charms Which only can divert his fierce design . " What though he frown , and to tumult do incline ...
Pagina 47
... expression . Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford . This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract , and the concealment of those which repel , the ...
... expression . Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford . This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract , and the concealment of those which repel , the ...
Pagina 48
... expression is the most sublime . Poetry loses its lustre and its power , because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself . All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear , and for ...
... expression is the most sublime . Poetry loses its lustre and its power , because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself . All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear , and for ...
Pagina 59
... expressions are , I find , applied to the subscription of the Articles ; but it seems more probable that they relate to canonical obedience . I know not any of the Articles which seem to thwart his opinions : but the thoughts of ...
... expressions are , I find , applied to the subscription of the Articles ; but it seems more probable that they relate to canonical obedience . I know not any of the Articles which seem to thwart his opinions : but the thoughts of ...
Pagina 74
... expression in itself grossly solecistical , when for one of those supposed blunders , he says , as Ker , and I think some one before him , has remarked , propino te grammatistis tuis vapulandum . " From vapulo , which has a passive ...
... expression in itself grossly solecistical , when for one of those supposed blunders , he says , as Ker , and I think some one before him , has remarked , propino te grammatistis tuis vapulandum . " From vapulo , which has a passive ...
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