The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of Dean Swift, Band 1R. Griffiths, 1753 - 354 Seiten |
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... lines , is a work of great length and labour , of the allegoric kind ; it is animated with a lively and luxurious imagination ; pointed with a variety of pun- gent 2 gent fatire ; and dignified with many excellent leflons 18 The LPFE of.
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... lines , and the unhappiness of his fubject , a chronicle being of all others the driest , and the leaft fufceptible of poetical ornament ; but .. let the reader judge by the fpecimen fubjoined . He died about the year 1461 , being then ...
... lines , and the unhappiness of his fubject , a chronicle being of all others the driest , and the leaft fufceptible of poetical ornament ; but .. let the reader judge by the fpecimen fubjoined . He died about the year 1461 , being then ...
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... lines , which will both illuftrate his politenefs and verfification . To you these accorde ; these unto you are due , Of you late proceeding as of their head foun- tayne ; Your life as example in writing I enfue , For , more then my ...
... lines , which will both illuftrate his politenefs and verfification . To you these accorde ; these unto you are due , Of you late proceeding as of their head foun- tayne ; Your life as example in writing I enfue , For , more then my ...
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... lines . Pearch thou my fpirit on her filver breafts , And with their pains redoubled mufick beat- ings , Let them tofs thee to world where all toil refts , Where blifs is fubject to no fears defeatings , Her praife I tune , whofe tongue ...
... lines . Pearch thou my fpirit on her filver breafts , And with their pains redoubled mufick beat- ings , Let them tofs thee to world where all toil refts , Where blifs is fubject to no fears defeatings , Her praife I tune , whofe tongue ...
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... lines as a fpecimen , by which it will be feen how much he falls fhort of his noble cotemporary , lord Surry , and is above those writers that preceded him in verfifi- cation . The COURTIERS LIFE . In court to ferve decked with fresh ...
... lines as a fpecimen , by which it will be feen how much he falls fhort of his noble cotemporary , lord Surry , and is above those writers that preceded him in verfifi- cation . The COURTIERS LIFE . In court to ferve decked with fresh ...
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Seite 88 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 233 - Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I therefore will begin: Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 302 - I know frail beauty like the purple flower, To which one morn oft birth and death affords; That love a jarring is of minds...
Seite 16 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Seite 130 - His images are indeed every where so lively, that the thing he would represent stands full before you, and you possess every part of it. I will venture to point out one more : which is, I think, as strong and as uncommon as any thing I ever saw.
Seite 129 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Seite 81 - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Seite 282 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Seite 198 - Dr. Donne, I have invited you to dinner, and, though you sit not down with me, yet I will carve to you of a dish that I know you love well, for, knowing you love London, I do therefore make you Dean of St. Paul's. And when I have dined, then do you take your beloved dish home to your study, say grace there to yourself, and much good may it do you.
Seite 97 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.