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... fault , wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the first and ...
... fault , wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the first and ...
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... all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with • Dodsley's Collection of Poems , vol . V. E. VOL . I. E exuberance : exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning , COWLEY . 25.
... all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are written with • Dodsley's Collection of Poems , vol . V. E. VOL . I. E exuberance : exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning , COWLEY . 25.
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... fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race , is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ...
... fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race , is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications , by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ...
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... faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried by a kind of des- tiny , to the light ...
... faults of Cowley : Omnibus mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , & futuros Crescit in annos . Cowley , whatever was his subject , seems to have been carried by a kind of des- tiny , to the light ...
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... faults . The digressions are too long , the morality too frequent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not ... fault by so nice a line of limitation ; the different parts of the sentence are so accurately adjusted ; and the flow ...
... faults . The digressions are too long , the morality too frequent , and the sentiments sometimes such as will not ... fault by so nice a line of limitation ; the different parts of the sentence are so accurately adjusted ; and the flow ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction Dorset Dryden duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry excellence faults favour friends genius honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes soon supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses Virgil virtue Waller Whigs write written wrote Young
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Página 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Página 11 - 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. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Página 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 218 - 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.
Página 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Página 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Página 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...