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... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
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... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
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... original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what was ...
... original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them . Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what was ...
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... original design . has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither diligence nor sagacity can discover . Some . find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a ...
... original design . has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither diligence nor sagacity can discover . Some . find the hint in an Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a ...
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... original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new , but ...
... original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combinations of words are new , but ...
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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...