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... cenfure . They have all the fame beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame propor- tion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copioufnefs of learning ; and it is truly af- ferted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the ...
... cenfure . They have all the fame beauties and faults , and nearly in the fame propor- tion . They are written with exuberance of wit , and with copioufnefs of learning ; and it is truly af- ferted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the ...
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... cenfure ; and furely though the mode of their compofition be er- roneous , yet many parts deferve at leaft that admi- ration which is due to great comprehenfion of know- ledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new ...
... cenfure ; and furely though the mode of their compofition be er- roneous , yet many parts deferve at leaft that admi- ration which is due to great comprehenfion of know- ledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new ...
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... cenfure . He fays of the Supreme Being , Hà fotto i piedi e fato e la natura Miniftri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il mifura . The fecond line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other ftanza of the poem . In the ...
... cenfure . He fays of the Supreme Being , Hà fotto i piedi e fato e la natura Miniftri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il mifura . The fecond line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other ftanza of the poem . In the ...
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... cenfure , by inferting a prayer taken from Sidney's Arcadia , and imputing it to the King ; whom he charges , in his Iconoclaftes , with the ufe of this prayer , as with a heavy crime , in the indecent lan- guage with which profperity ...
... cenfure , by inferting a prayer taken from Sidney's Arcadia , and imputing it to the King ; whom he charges , in his Iconoclaftes , with the ufe of this prayer , as with a heavy crime , in the indecent lan- guage with which profperity ...
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... cenfure it , with a little extenfion of their malice could contrive what they wanted to accuse . King Charles the Second , being now sheltered in Holland , employed Salmafius , profeffor of polite learning at Leyden , to write a defence ...
... cenfure it , with a little extenfion of their malice could contrive what they wanted to accuse . King Charles the Second , being now sheltered in Holland , employed Salmafius , profeffor of polite learning at Leyden , to write a defence ...
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Seite 96 - This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink. They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a school-master; but, since it cannot be denied that he taught boys, one finds out that he taught for nothing, and another that his motive was only zeal for the propagation of learning and virtue; and all tell what they do not know to be true, only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgraceful. His father was alive ; his allowance...
Seite 181 - But, whatever be the advantage of rhyme, I cannot prevail on myself to wish that Milton had been a rhymer ; for I cannot wish his work to be other than it is ; yet like other heroes, he is to be admired rather than imitated. He that thinks himself capable of astonishing may write blank verse ; but those that hope only to please must condescend to rhyme.
Seite 393 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other.
Seite 432 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity ; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Seite 160 - ... must supply him with illustrations and images. To put these materials to poetical use is required an imagination capable of painting nature and realizing fiction. Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language, distinguished all the delicacies of phrase, and all the colours of words, and learned to adjust their different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation.
Seite 175 - The confusion of spirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven, fills it with incongruity; and the book in which it is related is, I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased.
Seite 154 - 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.
Seite 21 - It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction.
Seite 22 - ... magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly...
Seite 100 - is not to be obtained but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that 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.