The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much ne- glected at another ...
... poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much ne- glected at another ...
Pagina 12
... poet chance , the mind must be thought sufficiently has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , at ease that could attend to such minuteness of among many good , is one of the most hazardous physiology . But the power of Cowley is not ...
... poet chance , the mind must be thought sufficiently has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , at ease that could attend to such minuteness of among many good , is one of the most hazardous physiology . But the power of Cowley is not ...
Pagina 18
... poet , with all his care , has not totally purged from pedantry . " If by pedantry is meant that minute knowledge which is derived from parti- cular sciences and studies , in opposition to the general notions supplied by a wide survey ...
... poet , with all his care , has not totally purged from pedantry . " If by pedantry is meant that minute knowledge which is derived from parti- cular sciences and studies , in opposition to the general notions supplied by a wide survey ...
Pagina 20
... poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the com- mon heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dry- den borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic ...
... poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the com- mon heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dry- den borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic ...
Pagina 25
... poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he was a while per- secuted ; but having , by his brother's interest , obtained permission to live in quiet , he ...
... poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the King's party , for which he was a while per- secuted ; but having , by his brother's interest , obtained permission to live in quiet , he ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young