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Pagina 66
... excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he finks willingly down to his general careleffnefs , and avoids with very little care either meanness or afperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : One flings a mountain ...
... excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he finks willingly down to his general careleffnefs , and avoids with very little care either meanness or afperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : One flings a mountain ...
Pagina 71
... and that , if he left verfification yet improveable , he left likewife from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled fucceeding poets to improve it . F 4 DEN DENHA M. OF Sir JOHN DENHAM very little is known COWL E Y. 71.
... and that , if he left verfification yet improveable , he left likewife from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled fucceeding poets to improve it . F 4 DEN DENHA M. OF Sir JOHN DENHAM very little is known COWL E Y. 71.
Pagina 73
... excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The fame attempt was made to rob Addifon of Cato , and Pope of his Effay on Criti cifm , In In 1647 , the ...
... excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The fame attempt was made to rob Addifon of Cato , and Pope of his Effay on Criti cifm , In In 1647 , the ...
Pagina 77
... , " True to his sense , but truer to his fame . " The excellence of thefe lines is greater , as the truth which they contain was not at that time gene- rally known . · His poem on the death of Cowley was his His DENHA M. 77.
... , " True to his sense , but truer to his fame . " The excellence of thefe lines is greater , as the truth which they contain was not at that time gene- rally known . · His poem on the death of Cowley was his His DENHA M. 77.
Pagina 79
... excellence feparated from its adjacent fault by fo nice a line of limitation ; the different parts of the fentence are fo accurately adjufted ; and the flow of the last couplet is fo fmooth and fweet ; that the paffage , however ...
... excellence feparated from its adjacent fault by fo nice a line of limitation ; the different parts of the fentence are fo accurately adjufted ; and the flow of the last couplet is fo fmooth and fweet ; that the paffage , however ...
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Æneid againſt anſwer appears becauſe cenfure character Charles Dryden compofition confidered converfation Cowley criticifm critick deferve defign defire delight difcover dramatick Dryden eafily Earl elegance English excellence fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems feldom fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudy ftyle fubject fuch fufficient fupply fuppofed fure genius heroick himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras inftruction itſelf John Dryden King labour laft learning leaſt lefs Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfon perhaps pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reafon reft reprefented rhyme ſeems thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion tragedy tranflation Tyrannick Love univerfally uſed verfes verfification verſe Virgil Waller whofe write written
Populaire passages
Pagina 100 - ... 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 268 - While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear : When to the beeches I report my flame, They bow their heads, as if they felt the same. To gods appealing, when I reach their bowers, With loud complaints they answer me in showers. To thee a wild and cruel soul is given, More deaf than trees, and prouder than the Heaven ! On the head of a stag...
Pagina 146 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Pagina 380 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Pagina 96 - 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 275 - Whatever is great, desirable, or tremendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved.
Pagina 154 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.
Pagina 275 - The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Pagina 416 - 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 386 - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes.