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 - English poetry - 503 pages |
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... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... 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 year ; contain- ing , with other ...
... 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 year ; contain- ing , with other ...
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... fading as her beauty , and fome- times in gems lasting as her virtues , At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in tranfacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at impor- COWLEY . II.
... fading as her beauty , and fome- times in gems lasting as her virtues , At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermin , he was engaged in tranfacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at impor- COWLEY . II.
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... things than words , contribute no otherwife to his repu- tation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation ... thing now in which we are vitally " concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , " and yet cannot now abstain from ...
... things than words , contribute no otherwife to his repu- tation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation ... thing now in which we are vitally " concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , " and yet cannot now abstain from ...
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... thing to that purpose . " 66 This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ... things in this nation . ” Soon after his return to London , he was feized by fome meffengers of the ufurping powers ...
... thing to that purpose . " 66 This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ... things in this nation . ” Soon after his return to London , he was feized by fome meffengers of the ufurping powers ...
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.