1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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Pàgina 5
... learning . • One great Mark by which you may discover Critick who has neither Taste nor Learning , is this , that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an Author which has not been before received and applauded by the Public , and ...
... learning . • One great Mark by which you may discover Critick who has neither Taste nor Learning , is this , that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an Author which has not been before received and applauded by the Public , and ...
Pàgina 8
... learning and power , die , and the books live . They are often exceedingly creditable productions - so creditable , indeed , that they form the basis of great personal reputations - but they accomplish absolutely nothing except the ...
... learning and power , die , and the books live . They are often exceedingly creditable productions - so creditable , indeed , that they form the basis of great personal reputations - but they accomplish absolutely nothing except the ...
Pàgina 17
... learning's endless , and blame Fate For not allowing life a longer date . He did the utmost bounds of Knowledge find , He found them not so large as was his mind . But , like the brave Pellæan youth , did moan , Because that Art had no ...
... learning's endless , and blame Fate For not allowing life a longer date . He did the utmost bounds of Knowledge find , He found them not so large as was his mind . But , like the brave Pellæan youth , did moan , Because that Art had no ...
Pàgina 36
... learning , of keen intelligence , and on the whole of more in- dependence of mind than was to be ex- pected from a courtier in the court of James . " Doomesday , " which in length almost rivals the other works of its author collectively ...
... learning , of keen intelligence , and on the whole of more in- dependence of mind than was to be ex- pected from a courtier in the court of James . " Doomesday , " which in length almost rivals the other works of its author collectively ...
Pàgina 38
... Learning .. Scarce any Book of Philology in our Land hath in so short a time passed so many Impres- sions . FULLER , THOMAS , 1662 , The Wor- thies of England , ed . Nichols , vol . 1 , p . 571 . ' Tis a book so full of variety of read ...
... Learning .. Scarce any Book of Philology in our Land hath in so short a time passed so many Impres- sions . FULLER , THOMAS , 1662 , The Wor- thies of England , ed . Nichols , vol . 1 , p . 571 . ' Tis a book so full of variety of read ...
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admirable ADOLPHUS WILLIAM anon beauty Ben Jonson Bunyan century character Charles Christian Church comedy contemporaries Cowley criticism diction Dictionary of National divine dramatic Earl Edinburgh Review English Language English Literature English Poetry English Poets English Prose Essays excellent fancy genius GEORGE grace HENRY Henry Vaughan History of England History of English Hobbes honour Hudibras humour imagination JAMES Jeremy Taylor John Bunyan John Dryden John Milton King Lands Letters language Latin learning less Letters lish literary Literature of Europe Lives Locke London Lord lyric Massinger ment merit mind moral National Biography nature ness never Paradise Lost passion perhaps PERSONAL philosopher Pilgrim's Progress play poem poetical poetry Pope praise Puritan reader SAINTSBURY SAMUEL satire seems sermons Shakespeare spirit style taste things THOMAS thought tion tragedy truth verse writings written wrote
Passatges populars
Pàgina 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Pàgina 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Pàgina 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pàgina 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Pàgina 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Pàgina 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Pàgina 279 - 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.
Pàgina 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Pàgina 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Pàgina 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.