The lives of the English poetsF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem ...
... labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem ...
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... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise some- times struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise some- times struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
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... labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us , are such mix'd engines found , As hands of double office : for the ground We till with them ; and them to heaven we raise : Who prayerless labours , or , without ...
... labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us , are such mix'd engines found , As hands of double office : for the ground We till with them ; and them to heaven we raise : Who prayerless labours , or , without ...
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... labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way . COWLEY . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I ...
... labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way . COWLEY . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I ...
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... labour'd births of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; * It is remarkable that Johnson should not have recollected , that this image is to be found in Bacon . Aristoteles , more Ot- tomannorum , regnare se haud tuto ...
... labour'd births of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; * It is remarkable that Johnson should not have recollected , that this image is to be found in Bacon . Aristoteles , more Ot- tomannorum , regnare se haud tuto ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admired Æneid afterwards Almanzor appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Charles Dryden composition Comus confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Duke Duke of Guise Earl Earl of Rochester elegance English epick excellence fancy faults favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation John Dryden kind King knowledge known labour lady language Latin learning lines Lord Marriage à-la-mode means ment Milton mind musick nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Philips play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks rhyme Rochester satire says seems sentiments shew sometimes style supposed thing Thomas Farnaby thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller words write written wrote
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Seite 338 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 64 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Seite 115 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not...
Seite 66 - 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.
Seite 91 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, which, being written by whatever hand came next, might possibly want correction, as to the orthography and pointing...
Seite 347 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Seite 85 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice- are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Seite 305 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away; for I have not completed the sheet 'which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Seite 347 - Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentrick violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy.
Seite 347 - No, there is a necessity in Fate, Why still the brave bold man is fortunate; He keeps his object ever full in sight, And that assurance holds him firm and right; True, 'tis a narrow way that leads to bliss, \ But right before there is no precipice ; \ Fear makes men look aside, and so their footing miss...