Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 |
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Pàgina xii
... formed here the staple of the talk . I recall how one evening the nineteenth century was denounced for its utter want of poetry . This was more than I could bear , for the nineteenth century was almost an object of adoration in my ...
... formed here the staple of the talk . I recall how one evening the nineteenth century was denounced for its utter want of poetry . This was more than I could bear , for the nineteenth century was almost an object of adoration in my ...
Pàgina xiii
... formed with that conscientiousness which was a characteristic of his work , grew more and more irksome to him as years went on . It may be of interest to some of Birkbeck Hill's friends who are aware of his denunciation of the tyranny ...
... formed with that conscientiousness which was a characteristic of his work , grew more and more irksome to him as years went on . It may be of interest to some of Birkbeck Hill's friends who are aware of his denunciation of the tyranny ...
Pàgina xxi
... formed a volume in a series entitled Eighteenth Century Letters under the general editorship of Mr. Brimley Johnson . For some time , however , he had been engaged in preparing a series of unpublished letters written by Swift to ...
... formed a volume in a series entitled Eighteenth Century Letters under the general editorship of Mr. Brimley Johnson . For some time , however , he had been engaged in preparing a series of unpublished letters written by Swift to ...
Pàgina 14
... formed a whole week with a full audience . Note , This play was not a little injurious to the Cavalier indigent officers ; especially the characters of Cutter and Worms . ' Downes's Roscius Anglicanus , ed . 1789 , p . 35 . 5 ' In a ...
... formed a whole week with a full audience . Note , This play was not a little injurious to the Cavalier indigent officers ; especially the characters of Cutter and Worms . ' Downes's Roscius Anglicanus , ed . 1789 , p . 35 . 5 ' In a ...
Pàgina 33
... forming descriptions they looked out not for images , but 98 for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at ...
... forming descriptions they looked out not for images , but 98 for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 163 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Pàgina 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Pàgina 20 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Pàgina 78 - 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 100 - 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 excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pàgina 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Pàgina 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
Pàgina 136 - 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
Pàgina 440 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.