English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - 460 pàgines |
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Pàgina 2
... give you a nearer example of myself , who ( I know not by what mischance ) in these my not old years and idlest times having slipped into the title of a poet , am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected ...
... give you a nearer example of myself , who ( I know not by what mischance ) in these my not old years and idlest times having slipped into the title of a poet , am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected ...
Pàgina 2
... give you a nearer example of myself , who ( I know not by what mischance ) in these my not old years and idlest times having slipped into the title of a poet , am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected ...
... give you a nearer example of myself , who ( I know not by what mischance ) in these my not old years and idlest times having slipped into the title of a poet , am provoked to say something unto you in the defence of that my unelected ...
Pàgina 8
... give artificial rules , which still are compassed within the circle of a question according to the proposed matter . The physician weigheth the nature of a man's body , and the nature of things helpful or hurtful unto it . And the ...
... give artificial rules , which still are compassed within the circle of a question according to the proposed matter . The physician weigheth the nature of a man's body , and the nature of things helpful or hurtful unto it . And the ...
Pàgina 9
... give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker , who , having made man to His own likeness , set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry , when with the force of a ...
... give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker , who , having made man to His own likeness , set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry , when with the force of a ...
Pàgina 12
... give us effigiem iusti imperii , ' the portraiture of a just Empire , ' under name of Cyrus ( as Cicero saith of him ) , made therein an absolute heroical poem . So did Helio- dorus in his sugared invention of that picture of love in ...
... give us effigiem iusti imperii , ' the portraiture of a just Empire , ' under name of Cyrus ( as Cicero saith of him ) , made therein an absolute heroical poem . So did Helio- dorus in his sugared invention of that picture of love in ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Anne Brontë Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better blank verse character Charlotte Brontë Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden E. V. LUCAS English epic Eugenius excellent fable Faerie Queene fame fancy father fault French genius give glory Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation Intro invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning Lisideius manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher play plot poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes speak spirit stage stanza syllables THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON things thought tion tragedy translated Trochee truth Virgil virtue words write written
Passatges populars
Pàgina 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Pàgina 103 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Pàgina 240 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Pàgina 92 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Pàgina 432 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Pàgina 241 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Pàgina 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this 'side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, braye notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Pàgina 40 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place: then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave: while in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Pàgina 235 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach.