Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 |
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... reason ; For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his ...
... reason ; For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his ...
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... reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many successive years , yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once ...
... reason , though he must always be thought a great poet , he is no longer esteemed a good writer ; and for ten impressions which his works have had in so many successive years , yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once ...
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... reason but fancy behind them , and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . and hyp དོན་ , ” “ ཆོས་ མ Someti Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never ...
... reason but fancy behind them , and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . and hyp དོན་ , ” “ ཆོས་ མ Someti Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never ...
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... reason of the neglect of examination and countenance of antiquity , and what by reason of the use of the opinion in similitudes and ornaments LIVES OF POETS . I D of speech , it is never called down . ' Advancement of Learning , bk . ii ...
... reason of the neglect of examination and countenance of antiquity , and what by reason of the use of the opinion in similitudes and ornaments LIVES OF POETS . I D of speech , it is never called down . ' Advancement of Learning , bk . ii ...
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... Reason * are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , Reason has its proper task assigned it : that of judging ...
... Reason * are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are in- tended to exalt the human faculties , Reason has its proper task assigned it : that of judging ...
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Página 163 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 20 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 78 - 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 100 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Página 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
Página 136 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
Página 440 - 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.