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Pàgina 32
... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
Pàgina 33
... pleasing than a faithful representation , ha- ving retained their sprightliness , but lost their simpli- city . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is ...
... pleasing than a faithful representation , ha- ving retained their sprightliness , but lost their simpli- city . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is ...
Pàgina 40
... pleasing fa- shion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are ...
... pleasing fa- shion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are ...
Pàgina 50
... pleasing , must please at once . The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow de- grees may gratify us with consciousness of improve- ment , but ...
... pleasing , must please at once . The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow de- grees may gratify us with consciousness of improve- ment , but ...
Pàgina 74
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Pàgina 312 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Pàgina 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pàgina 60 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Pàgina 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Pàgina 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Pàgina 31 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Pàgina 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Pàgina 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Pàgina 117 - 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 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.