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... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolv . ing to show it in rhyme , instead ...
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolv . ing to show it in rhyme , instead ...
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... criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will , however , venture to ...
... criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a kingdom . I will , however , venture to ...
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... critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know- ledge ; but not the gaiety . VOL . V. - E 26 ...
... critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the know- ledge ; but not the gaiety . VOL . V. - E 26 ...
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... criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently observed : the few decisions and re- marks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ...
... criticism very justly conceived and happily expressed . Cowley's critical abilities have not been sufficiently observed : the few decisions and re- marks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ...
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... critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Namæan ... critic , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly ...
... critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Namæan ... critic , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verse , which , according to Sprat , is chiefly ...
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Pàgina 250 - heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, And music's power obey. From harmony from heavenly harmony, From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, This universal frame began: The diapason closing full in man. The conclusion is likewise striking; but it includes an image so awful
Pàgina 292 - whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend; but what are the hopes of man! I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. In the library at Oxford is the following ludicrous Analysis
Pàgina 250 - So, when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky. Of his skill in elegy he has given a specimen in his
Pàgina 24 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like the other foot obliquely run. Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pàgina 53 - He went to the university with a design of entering into the church, but in time altered his mind; for he declared that whoever became a clergyman must " subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which, unless he took with a conscience that could not retch, he must straight perjure himself.
Pàgina 250 - itself, that it can owe little to poetry; and I could wish the antithesis of music untuning had found some other place. The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the bless'd above: As from the power of sacred lays
Pàgina 518 - afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him ; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Pàgina 55 - which," says he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pàgina 46 - Should such a man too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces: it is excelled by his poem
Pàgina 205 - (Such as disquiet always what is well, And by ill-imitating would excel,) Might hence presume the whole creation's day To change in scenes, and show it in a play." It is another of his hasty productions; for the heat of his imagination raised it in a month. This composition is addressed to the princess of