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Pagina 43
... lines are not such as his ' deep mouth 39 was used to pour : ' Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus ' top where thou Sitt'st to behold thy sacred show , If in Alpheus ' silver flight , If in my verse thou take [ dost ] delight , My verse ...
... lines are not such as his ' deep mouth 39 was used to pour : ' Great Rhea's son , If in Olympus ' top where thou Sitt'st to behold thy sacred show , If in Alpheus ' silver flight , If in my verse thou take [ dost ] delight , My verse ...
Pagina 44
... lines in swearing by the ' Casta- lian Stream " . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : ' But in this thankless world the giver [ givers ] Is [ Are ] envied even ...
... lines in swearing by the ' Casta- lian Stream " . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : ' But in this thankless world the giver [ givers ] Is [ Are ] envied even ...
Pagina 45
... lines like these , for out of thirteen lines he does not quote six in entirety , nor do these follow each other con- secutively . ] 2 Johnson had said much the same in The Rambler , No. 36 . 3 Eng . Poets , viii . 131 . end , هار the ...
... lines like these , for out of thirteen lines he does not quote six in entirety , nor do these follow each other con- secutively . ] 2 Johnson had said much the same in The Rambler , No. 36 . 3 Eng . Poets , viii . 131 . end , هار the ...
Pagina 57
... lines have such 176 resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius upon the death of Scaliger that I cannot but think them copied from it , though they are copied by no servile hand ' . One passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed ...
... lines have such 176 resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius upon the death of Scaliger that I cannot but think them copied from it , though they are copied by no servile hand ' . One passage in his Mistress is so apparently borrowed ...
Pagina 59
... lines , such as the feeble 1 Cowley wrote of his Pindaric Odes : -The numbers are various and irregular , and sometimes ( espe- cially some of the long ones ) seem harsh and uncouth , if the just mea- sures and cadences be not observed ...
... lines , such as the feeble 1 Cowley wrote of his Pindaric Odes : -The numbers are various and irregular , and sometimes ( espe- cially some of the long ones ) seem harsh and uncouth , if the just mea- sures and cadences be not observed ...
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Pagina 163 - 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 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Pagina 20 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Pagina 78 - 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.
Pagina 100 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pagina 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Pagina 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple 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.
Pagina 136 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
Pagina 440 - 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.