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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... hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and retirement , " he might take occafion of giving notice of " the posture of things in this nation . ' 90 ...
... hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and retirement , " he might take occafion of giving notice of " the posture of things in this nation . ' 90 ...
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... hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The man whose miscarriage in a just cause has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any violation of his integrity , regain his liberty ...
... hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The man whose miscarriage in a just cause has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any violation of his integrity , regain his liberty ...
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... , which you yourself have made ; That pain must needs be very much , Which makes me of your hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak for purgings grow , COWLEY , The The World and a Clock . Mahol , th ' 42 COWLEY .
... , which you yourself have made ; That pain must needs be very much , Which makes me of your hand afraid . Cordials of pity give me now , For I too weak for purgings grow , COWLEY , The The World and a Clock . Mahol , th ' 42 COWLEY .
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... d is to burn ! Once dead , how can it be , Death fhould a thing fo pleafant feem to thee , ' That thou fhould't come to live it o'er again in me ? COWLEY . A Lover's A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo to 44 COWLEY .
... d is to burn ! Once dead , how can it be , Death fhould a thing fo pleafant feem to thee , ' That thou fhould't come to live it o'er again in me ? COWLEY . A Lover's A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo to 44 COWLEY .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo to her ftubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf - fame room , " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenado fhot into a ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. A Lover's heart , a hand grenado . Wo to her ftubborn heart , if once mine come Into the felf - fame room , " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenado fhot into a ...
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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...