Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J.B. Lippincott, 1864 |
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... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the Parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl ...
... Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the Parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl ...
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... Lord Jermyn , he was en- gaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards Earl of ...
... Lord Jermyn , he was en- gaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards Earl of ...
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... Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian Library , are reported to have made this experiment of their future fortunes with passages equally ominous to each . That of the King was Æneid iv . 615. Lord Falkland's Æneid xi . 152 . 1 retire ...
... Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian Library , are reported to have made this experiment of their future fortunes with passages equally ominous to each . That of the King was Æneid iv . 615. Lord Falkland's Æneid xi . 152 . 1 retire ...
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... Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ...
... Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ...
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... Lord Crofts procured a con- tribution of ten thousand pounds from the Scotch that wandered over that kingdom . Poland was at that time very much frequented by itinerant traders , who , in a country of very little commerce and of great ...
... Lord Crofts procured a con- tribution of ten thousand pounds from the Scotch that wandered over that kingdom . Poland was at that time very much frequented by itinerant traders , who , in a country of very little commerce and of great ...
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Pàgina 89 - 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 : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation...
Pàgina 369 - 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.
Pàgina 69 - 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.
Pàgina 152 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others, — the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Pàgina 388 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pàgina 33 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Pàgina 361 - English fleet each ship resounds with joy, And loud applause of their great leader's fame : In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy, And, slumbering, smile at the imagin'd flame.
Pàgina 85 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pàgina 260 - All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian theology are too simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures is to magnify by a concave mirror the sidereal hemisphere.
Pàgina 17 - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader...