1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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Pàgina 10
... light one sees the critic as the real helper of mankind , a torch - bearing outrider , the interpreter par excellence . - JAMES , HENRY , 1891 , The Science of Criticism , The New Review , vol . 4 , p . 401 . We cannot believe that he ...
... light one sees the critic as the real helper of mankind , a torch - bearing outrider , the interpreter par excellence . - JAMES , HENRY , 1891 , The Science of Criticism , The New Review , vol . 4 , p . 401 . We cannot believe that he ...
Pàgina 22
... light artificial French poets with whom he had become ac- quainted in his travels . - MASSON , DAVID , 1858 , The Life of John Milton , vol . 1 , ch . vi . No one touches dangerous themes with so light and glove - guarded a hand . - GIL ...
... light artificial French poets with whom he had become ac- quainted in his travels . - MASSON , DAVID , 1858 , The Life of John Milton , vol . 1 , ch . vi . No one touches dangerous themes with so light and glove - guarded a hand . - GIL ...
Pàgina 31
... light wine to a dram drinker . His genius was a telescope , ill- adapted for neighbouring objects , but powerful to bring within the sphere of vision , what nature has wisely placed at an unsociable distance . Passion must be incestuous ...
... light wine to a dram drinker . His genius was a telescope , ill- adapted for neighbouring objects , but powerful to bring within the sphere of vision , what nature has wisely placed at an unsociable distance . Passion must be incestuous ...
Pàgina 41
... light of reputation , which has been made per- fectly distinct by Mr. Gifford's edition of his works . CAMPBELL , THOMAS , 1819 , Specimens of the British Poets . We draw to a close . After " The King and Subject , " so happy in its ...
... light of reputation , which has been made per- fectly distinct by Mr. Gifford's edition of his works . CAMPBELL , THOMAS , 1819 , Specimens of the British Poets . We draw to a close . After " The King and Subject , " so happy in its ...
Pàgina 49
... light . " . . . Massinger's style , though it does not evince a single great quality of the poet , has always charmed English readers by its dignity , flexibility , elegance , clearness , and ease . His metre and rhythm Coleridge ...
... light . " . . . Massinger's style , though it does not evince a single great quality of the poet , has always charmed English readers by its dignity , flexibility , elegance , clearness , and ease . His metre and rhythm Coleridge ...
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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.