1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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... pieces , and why failures are failures . WATSON , WILLIAM , 1893 , Excursions in Criticism , p . 88 . Popular objection to criticism is , how- ever , senseless , because it is through crit- icism that is , through discrimination between ...
... pieces , and why failures are failures . WATSON , WILLIAM , 1893 , Excursions in Criticism , p . 88 . Popular objection to criticism is , how- ever , senseless , because it is through crit- icism that is , through discrimination between ...
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... pieces consisting merely of the elaboration of some single idea ; and , if he has more tenderness than Waller , he is far from having so much dignity , variety , or power of sustained effort . - CRAIK , GEORGE L. , 1861 , A Compendious ...
... pieces consisting merely of the elaboration of some single idea ; and , if he has more tenderness than Waller , he is far from having so much dignity , variety , or power of sustained effort . - CRAIK , GEORGE L. , 1861 , A Compendious ...
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... pieces of. in the way of ebullient spirits or social flow . He was a barrister , with a respect- able ancestry to look back to ; and though he wrote several plays , and did not dis- dain to work in conjunction with such a professional ...
... pieces of. in the way of ebullient spirits or social flow . He was a barrister , with a respect- able ancestry to look back to ; and though he wrote several plays , and did not dis- dain to work in conjunction with such a professional ...
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Charles Wells Moulton. -CRASHAW , RICHARD , 1646 , The Delights pieces of Shakespeare , but its merits are of the Muses . Sir William Alexander Earl of Stirling 1567 ? -1640 William. LOVE'S SACRIFICE 1633 Unto this altar , rich with thy ...
Charles Wells Moulton. -CRASHAW , RICHARD , 1646 , The Delights pieces of Shakespeare , but its merits are of the Muses . Sir William Alexander Earl of Stirling 1567 ? -1640 William. LOVE'S SACRIFICE 1633 Unto this altar , rich with thy ...
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... pieces are elegant and musical . There is less of conceit in the merely conceitful sense than was common with contemporaries , and if you only persevere , opalescent hues edge long passages otherwise comparable with mist and fog . As a ...
... pieces are elegant and musical . There is less of conceit in the merely conceitful sense than was common with contemporaries , and if you only persevere , opalescent hues edge long passages otherwise comparable with mist and fog . As a ...
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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.