Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham, Volum 11854 |
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Pàgina vi
... Cowley . Yet a criticism on The Faerie Queene ' would hardly have supplied Johnson with points of equal value to those which in Cowley led to his admirable observations on the s - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid ...
... Cowley . Yet a criticism on The Faerie Queene ' would hardly have supplied Johnson with points of equal value to those which in Cowley led to his admirable observations on the s - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid ...
Pàgina xii
... Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's unfinished epic is in three books , and in another place ( a few pages on ) that it is in four . We may safely suspect that he had never read Cowley's Comedy - for he mis- takes its title ...
... Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's unfinished epic is in three books , and in another place ( a few pages on ) that it is in four . We may safely suspect that he had never read Cowley's Comedy - for he mis- takes its title ...
Pàgina xvii
... Cowley , the earliest poet of whom he undertook to treat , had died within less than half a century of his own birth . One of the dreams of his youth had been a Life of Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he ...
... Cowley , the earliest poet of whom he undertook to treat , had died within less than half a century of his own birth . One of the dreams of his youth had been a Life of Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he ...
Pàgina xxvi
... Cowley's letters . " All people upon the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . " Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote told me something ...
... Cowley's letters . " All people upon the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . " Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote told me something ...
Pàgina xxx
... is in Farquhar's Letters an indistinct mention of it as irregular and disorderly , and of the oration which was then spoke . More than this I have not discovered . " CONTENTS OF VOL . I. ABRAHAM COWLEY . - 1618-1667 XXX ADVERTISEMENT .
... is in Farquhar's Letters an indistinct mention of it as irregular and disorderly , and of the oration which was then spoke . More than this I have not discovered . " CONTENTS OF VOL . I. ABRAHAM COWLEY . - 1618-1667 XXX ADVERTISEMENT .
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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 76 - 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 143 - 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 164 - 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 xvi - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one...
Pàgina 379 - Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy.
Pàgina 23 - 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.
Pàgina 90 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pàgina 63 - ... reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Pàgina 120 - 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 and pointing...