Critical Essays and Literary FragmentsA. Constable and Company, Limited, 1903 - 344 Seiten |
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ADDISON admired Almanack Ancients appear argument ARISTOTLE Astrologer audience Author Bartholomew Fair better BICKERSTAFF Blank Verse called Cardinal DE NOAILLES Characters Church Clergy Comedy Coplestone CRITES CRITICAL ESSAYS death DEFENCE &C discourse Dramatic Poesy Dryden Duke of LERMA Eachard Ellwood English EUGENIUS excellent Fancy French give Greek hath Holy Orders honour Humour imagine imitate ISAAC ISAAC BICKERSTAFF ISAAC PENINGTON judge judgement kind King language Latin learned LISIDEIUS live Lord Master MICHAEL DRAYTON Nature never observed occasion opinion OVID parish PARTRIDGE perhaps person pleased Plot Poem Poet Poor RICHARD says preach Preface present Prose reader reason Rhyme ridiculous scarce Scenes SEJANUS serious Plays SHAKESPEARE shew Silent Woman Sir RICHARD STEELE speak Stage suppose Swift Tatler tell things thought Tickell TICKELL'S Tragedy words writ write written
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Seite 326 - For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; ' being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 282 - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers...
Seite 323 - Grave, as Poor Richard says. If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Seite 85 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Seite 85 - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 328 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 164 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Seite 85 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him. No man can say, he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent, inter viberna cupressi.
Seite 165 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Seite 325 - Leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a, Minute, throw not away an Hour.