The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, and J. Bowen., 1783 |
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... expected from " fo great a man . ' 19 What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of ...
... expected from " fo great a man . ' 19 What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of ...
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... expected , while " others for their money carried away moft places , he retired discontented into Sur- rey . " 66 66 " He was now , " fays the courtly Sprat , 66 weary of the vexations and formalities of “ an active condition . He had ...
... expected , while " others for their money carried away moft places , he retired discontented into Sur- rey . " 66 66 " He was now , " fays the courtly Sprat , 66 weary of the vexations and formalities of “ an active condition . He had ...
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... fomething fudden and un- expected ; that which elevates must always furprise . What is perceived by flow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of im- provement , provement , but will never ftrike with the fenfe of COWLEY . 91.
... fomething fudden and un- expected ; that which elevates must always furprise . What is perceived by flow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of im- provement , provement , but will never ftrike with the fenfe of COWLEY . 91.
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... expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manfo mar- quis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Taffo . Manfo was enough delighted with . his accomplishments to honour him with a forry distich , ١ his 132 MILT O N.
... expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manfo mar- quis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Taffo . Manfo was enough delighted with . his accomplishments to honour him with a forry distich , ١ his 132 MILT O N.
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... expected the Paradife Loft . He published the fame year two more pamphlets , upon the fame question . To one of his antagonifts , who affirms that he was vomited out of the univerfity , he answers , in general 5 general terms ; " The ...
... expected the Paradife Loft . He published the fame year two more pamphlets , upon the fame question . To one of his antagonifts , who affirms that he was vomited out of the univerfity , he answers , in general 5 general terms ; " The ...
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Página 109 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 52 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 246 - Lost' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Página 29 - Their attempts were always analytick: they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of...
Página 251 - The confusion of spirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven, fills it with incongruity; and the book in which it is related is, I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased.
Página 82 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Página 249 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Página 28 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration.
Página 28 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
Página 256 - Regained has been too much depreciated, Samson Agonistes has in requital been too much admired. It could only be by long prejudice, and the bigotry of learning, that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, with their encumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages...