1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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... century whose works have not been sub- jected to the most scorching criticisms and the most slashing and sweeping con- demnations . Yet those criticisms and condemnations have passed for nothing . The criticisms , often profoundly ingen ...
... century whose works have not been sub- jected to the most scorching criticisms and the most slashing and sweeping con- demnations . Yet those criticisms and condemnations have passed for nothing . The criticisms , often profoundly ingen ...
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... century Carew takes a foremost place . In genius he is surpassed by Her- rick only , and in age he is the first of that gallant band of cavalier song - writers of whom Rochester is the last . Born in the flush of the Elizabethan summer ...
... century Carew takes a foremost place . In genius he is surpassed by Her- rick only , and in age he is the first of that gallant band of cavalier song - writers of whom Rochester is the last . Born in the flush of the Elizabethan summer ...
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... Centuries of Scottish Literature , vol . I , pp . 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 . An undue neglect has hitherto been Alex- ander's fortune at the ... Century , p . 74 . • PERSONAL He was an exact mathematician , a curious 36 SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER.
... Centuries of Scottish Literature , vol . I , pp . 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 . An undue neglect has hitherto been Alex- ander's fortune at the ... Century , p . 74 . • PERSONAL He was an exact mathematician , a curious 36 SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER.
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... century critics assumed . Most of his verse is diffuse and dull ; he abounds in fantastic , tortuous and irration- al conceits , and he often sinks into ludicrous bathos ; but there is no volume of his verse which is not illumined by ...
... century critics assumed . Most of his verse is diffuse and dull ; he abounds in fantastic , tortuous and irration- al conceits , and he often sinks into ludicrous bathos ; but there is no volume of his verse which is not illumined by ...
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... Century Cyclopedia of Names , p . 110 . Thomas Nabbes 1600 ? -1645 ? Thomas Nabbes , died. The sermons were reprinted even in the dark days of the suppression of the Church , and the Conference , republished four times in the seventeenth ...
... Century Cyclopedia of Names , p . 110 . Thomas Nabbes 1600 ? -1645 ? Thomas Nabbes , died. The sermons were reprinted even in the dark days of the suppression of the Church , and the Conference , republished four times in the seventeenth ...
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Página 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Página 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Página 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Página 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Página 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Página 279 - 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 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Página 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.