Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works ... In Two VolumesWilliam Milner., 1835 |
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Pàgina 7
... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618. His father was a grocer , whose condition dr . Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen ; and ...
... known , but all is shewn confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the year 1618. His father was a grocer , whose condition dr . Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen ; and ...
Pàgina 11
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation , " The Scotch treaty , " says he ...
... known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation , " The Scotch treaty , " says he ...
Pàgina 15
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a right , in things ...
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a right , in things ...
Pàgina 18
... known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
... known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
Pàgina 24
... pride , the rugged northern bear , In others makes the cold too great . And where these are temperate known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... pride , the rugged northern bear , In others makes the cold too great . And where these are temperate known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 304 - 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 34 - 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 120 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, . by calling imagination to the help of reason.
Pàgina 281 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Pàgina 412 - ... irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him, but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried; when he found his life near its end, he directed the young lord to be called, and when he desired with great tenderness to hear his last injunctions, told him, "I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
Pàgina 58 - No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other. His thoughts are natural, and his style has a smooth and placid equability, which has never yet obtained its due commendation. Nothing is far-sought, or hard-laboured ; but all is easy without feebleness, and familiar without grossness.
Pàgina 77 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or 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 reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice- are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Pàgina 437 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pàgina 32 - Hither with crystal vials, lovers, come, And take my tears, which are love's wine, And try your mistress' tears at home ; For all are false, that taste not just like mine.
Pàgina 433 - Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction...