Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 |
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... imitations borrowed from imitations , by tradi- tional imagery and hereditary similes , by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables 3 . ' Johnson defines subtlety ( he spells it subtilty ) as ' thinness ; fine- ness ; exility of ...
... imitations borrowed from imitations , by tradi- tional imagery and hereditary similes , by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables 3 . ' Johnson defines subtlety ( he spells it subtilty ) as ' thinness ; fine- ness ; exility of ...
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... imitations supply its place 5 . The Pindarique Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be ...
... imitations supply its place 5 . The Pindarique Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be ...
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... imitate others ) never to come to the full end of their story ; but only so near that every one may see it ; as men commonly play not out the game , when it is evident that they can win it , but lay down their cards , and take up what ...
... imitate others ) never to come to the full end of their story ; but only so near that every one may see it ; as men commonly play not out the game , when it is evident that they can win it , but lay down their cards , and take up what ...
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... imitate only sound and motion . A boundless verse , a headlong verse , and a verse of brass or of strong brass , seem to comprise very incongruous and unsociable ideas . What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing loose ...
... imitate only sound and motion . A boundless verse , a headlong verse , and a verse of brass or of strong brass , seem to comprise very incongruous and unsociable ideas . What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing loose ...
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... imitation of Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them " : that this opinion is erroneous may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled ...
... imitation of Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them " : that this opinion is erroneous may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.