1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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... merit . Carew probably died in 1639 , but no entry of his burial has been found . The illness that led him to a maudlin kind of repentance seems to have come upon him when he was in the country . If he recovered enough from it to return ...
... merit . Carew probably died in 1639 , but no entry of his burial has been found . The illness that led him to a maudlin kind of repentance seems to have come upon him when he was in the country . If he recovered enough from it to return ...
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... merit of short isolated passages and poems . SAINTSBURY , GEORGE , 1887 , History of Elizabethan Literature , p ... merits . The works of both are equally preposterous as plays ; but Alex- ander's have not the power and weight of thought ...
... merit of short isolated passages and poems . SAINTSBURY , GEORGE , 1887 , History of Elizabethan Literature , p ... merits . The works of both are equally preposterous as plays ; but Alex- ander's have not the power and weight of thought ...
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... merit , must be added a spirit of command- ing eloquence , a dignity and force of thought , which , while they approach the precincts of sublimity , and indicate great depth and clearness of intellect , show , by the nervous elegance of ...
... merit , must be added a spirit of command- ing eloquence , a dignity and force of thought , which , while they approach the precincts of sublimity , and indicate great depth and clearness of intellect , show , by the nervous elegance of ...
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... merit of these plays however consists in the beautiful songs they harbour.- GOSSE , EDMUND , 1880 , English Poets , ed . Ward , vol . II , p . 171 . " " The selectors seem to have been afraid of giving the whole of this most delicious ...
... merit of these plays however consists in the beautiful songs they harbour.- GOSSE , EDMUND , 1880 , English Poets , ed . Ward , vol . II , p . 171 . " " The selectors seem to have been afraid of giving the whole of this most delicious ...
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... merit in other departments or periods of our literature , seems to have cared but little for the kind of reputation William Cartwright 1611-1643 An English poet of some reputation in 68 BULL, GEORGE, BUNYAN, JOHN, Personal,
... merit in other departments or periods of our literature , seems to have cared but little for the kind of reputation William Cartwright 1611-1643 An English poet of some reputation in 68 BULL, GEORGE, BUNYAN, JOHN, Personal,
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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.