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... known wealth was so great that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last Although I think thou never found wilt be , Yet I'm resolved to search for thee ; The search itself rewards the ...
... known wealth was so great that he might have borrowed without loss of credit . In his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton , the last Although I think thou never found wilt be , Yet I'm resolved to search for thee ; The search itself rewards the ...
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... known before by May and Sandys , the trans - rivalled the ancients in every kind of poetry but lators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the Davideis are some hemistichs , or verses It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic ...
... known before by May and Sandys , the trans - rivalled the ancients in every kind of poetry but lators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the Davideis are some hemistichs , or verses It may be affirmed , without any encomiastic ...
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... known to have published any thing afterward till the King's death , when , finding his murderers condemned by the presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to jus- tify it , and to compose the minds of the people . by applying it as we apply ...
... known to have published any thing afterward till the King's death , when , finding his murderers condemned by the presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to jus- tify it , and to compose the minds of the people . by applying it as we apply ...
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... known : but Milton , and his nephew Philips , under whose name he published an an- swer so much corrected by him that it might be ralled his own , imputed it to Bramhal ; and , knowing him no friend to regicides , thought themselves at ...
... known : but Milton , and his nephew Philips , under whose name he published an an- swer so much corrected by him that it might be ralled his own , imputed it to Bramhal ; and , knowing him no friend to regicides , thought themselves at ...
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... known : but marriage afforded not much of his happiness . The first wife left him in disgust , and was brought back only by terror ; the second , indeed , seems to have been more a favourite , but her life was short . The third , as ...
... known : but marriage afforded not much of his happiness . The first wife left him in disgust , and was brought back only by terror ; the second , indeed , seems to have been more a favourite , but her life was short . The third , as ...
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Página 26 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by 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.
Página 10 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.
Página 244 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation; and those of Pope by minute...
Página 437 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Página 35 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Página 10 - To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Página 38 - Milton's republicanism was, I am afraid, founded in an envious hatred of greatness, and a sullen desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State, and prelates in the Church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty as repugnance to authority.
Página 41 - The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth; rebellion against the Supreme King raised by the highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of their host and the punishment of their crime; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures; their original happiness and innocence, their forfeiture...
Página 9 - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account. The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to...
Página 270 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.