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... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia caris ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : These little pieces will be found more finished Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringit flammas O lacrimæ , aut ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia caris ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : These little pieces will be found more finished Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringit flammas O lacrimæ , aut ...
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... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tus- can poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular dili- gence studied the language and literature ; and though he seems to ...
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tus- can poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular dili- gence studied the language and literature ; and though he seems to ...
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... Italian pro nunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task troublesome without use . There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronunci- ation to our own , except ...
... Italian pro nunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task troublesome without use . There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronunci- ation to our own , except ...
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... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the rain- bow be the fuldle - stick of the fiddle of Heaven . * It has been already shown , that the first ...
... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the rain- bow be the fuldle - stick of the fiddle of Heaven . * It has been already shown , that the first ...
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... Italian , French , and Spanish . ordinary commonwealth . " It is surely very In Latin his skill was such as places him in the shallow policy that supposes money to be the first rank of writers and critics ; and he appears chief good ...
... Italian , French , and Spanish . ordinary commonwealth . " It is surely very In Latin his skill was such as places him in the shallow policy that supposes money to be the first rank of writers and critics ; and he appears chief good ...
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Seite 26 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by 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.
Seite 10 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.
Seite 244 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. 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...
Seite 437 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Seite 35 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Seite 10 - To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Seite 38 - Milton's republicanism was, I am afraid, founded in an envious hatred of greatness, and a sullen desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of control, and pride disdainful of superiority. He hated monarchs in the State, and prelates in the Church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected that his predominant desire was to destroy rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty as repugnance to authority.
Seite 41 - The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth; rebellion against the Supreme King raised by the highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of their host and the punishment of their crime; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures; their original happiness and innocence, their forfeiture...
Seite 9 - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account. The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to...
Seite 270 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.