The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. WalshC. 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, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 páginas |
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... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- ship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ...
... language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- ship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cow- ley ...
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... language , but of com- prehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written . but printed in his thirteenth ...
... language , but of com- prehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written . but printed in his thirteenth ...
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... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own con- ceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
... language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own con- ceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with consciousness not only of the merit ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit , which is at once natural and new , that which , though , not obvious , is , upon its firft pro- duction , acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit , which is at once natural and new , that which , though , not obvious , is , upon its firft pro- duction , acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that ...
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... language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the fame : the dialogue of comedy , when it is tranfcribed from popu- lar manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of in- verfion ...
... language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the fame : the dialogue of comedy , when it is tranfcribed from popu- lar manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of in- verfion ...
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Página 115 - 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 54 - 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 32 - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Página 225 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.
Página 326 - It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse ; which made me uneasy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the speculation into practice. For many a fair precept in Poetry is like a seeming demonstration in the Mathematics, very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanic operation.
Página 193 - However inferior to the heroes who were born in better ages, he might still be great among his contemporaries, with the hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity. He might still be a giant among the pygmies, the oneeyed monarch of the blind.
Página 231 - ... of the conduct of the two brothers, who, when their sister sinks with fatigue in a pathless wilderness, wander both away together in search of berries too far to find their way back, and leave a helpless Lady to all the sadness and danger of solitude.
Página 232 - Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
Página 147 - ... 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 27 - The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables.