Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking , when it was seen that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . " Indeed he was not always true to himself . When asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to 2 Idler ...
... produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking , when it was seen that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . " Indeed he was not always true to himself . When asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to 2 Idler ...
Pàgina 3
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through ...
... produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through ...
Pàgina 4
... produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally de- termined to some particular ...
... produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally de- termined to some particular ...
Pàgina 5
... produced a comedy called ' Love's Riddle , ' though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
... produced a comedy called ' Love's Riddle , ' though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at ...
Pàgina 7
... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as rea- sonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy no- 13 Barnesii Anacreontem . - JOHNSON . Cambridge , 12mo . , 1705 . thing , " and to quarrel as to write ...
... produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as rea- sonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy no- 13 Barnesii Anacreontem . - JOHNSON . Cambridge , 12mo . , 1705 . thing , " and to quarrel as to write ...
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Pàgina 341 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning* give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Pàgina 364 - 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 141 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Pàgina 21 - To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables n.
Pàgina 162 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Pàgina 74 - 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 380 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pàgina 364 - 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 timeful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead.
Pàgina 76 - Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, " He did not steal, but emulate ! " And, when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not their cloaths, did wear.
Pàgina xiv - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.