Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volumen1J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... his memory at " that time , that his teachers never " could bring it to retain the ordinary " rules of grammar . This is an inftance of the natural defire of man It 4 COWLEY . mind, and propenfity for fome certain ...
... his memory at " that time , that his teachers never " could bring it to retain the ordinary " rules of grammar . This is an inftance of the natural defire of man It 4 COWLEY . mind, and propenfity for fome certain ...
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... But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all conftraint , that his " mafter never could prevail on him . B 3 66 ' to " to learn the rules without book . " He COWLEY $
... But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all conftraint , that his " mafter never could prevail on him . B 3 66 ' to " to learn the rules without book . " He COWLEY $
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... never inferted in any collection of his works ; and fo diftinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the ele- gance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the king , and amongst ...
... never inferted in any collection of his works ; and fo diftinguished himself by the warmth of his loyalty , and the ele- gance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the king , and amongst ...
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... never faw , complains of jea- loufy which he never felt ; fuppofes himself fometimes invited , and fome- times forfaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ranfacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs ...
... never faw , complains of jea- loufy which he never felt ; fuppofes himself fometimes invited , and fome- times forfaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ranfacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominefs ...
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... never cancelled ; not that it made him think himself secure , for at that diffo- lution of government , which followed . t the death of Oliver , he returned into France , France , where he refumed his former ftation , and 22 COWLEY .
... never cancelled ; not that it made him think himself secure , for at that diffo- lution of government , which followed . t the death of Oliver , he returned into France , France , where he refumed his former ftation , and 22 COWLEY .
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Página 38 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Página 4 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 59 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
Página 113 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
Página 75 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 32 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
Página 104 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
Página 161 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Página 145 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.