Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 - 4페이지 |
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... Poets are in general prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller joy , and of longer duration , to its composer , than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian . A bottle of wine bringeth as much pleasure ...
... Poets are in general prone to melancholy ; yet the most plaintive ditty hath imparted a fuller joy , and of longer duration , to its composer , than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian . A bottle of wine bringeth as much pleasure ...
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... poem , almost every one can see what is very good ; but you , Mr. Porson , who have turned over all the volumes of all the com- mentators , will inform me whether I am right or wrong in asserting , that no critic hath yet appeared who ...
... poem , almost every one can see what is very good ; but you , Mr. Porson , who have turned over all the volumes of all the com- mentators , will inform me whether I am right or wrong in asserting , that no critic hath yet appeared who ...
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... poets may not . It is better , but it is also more difficult , to make a selection of thoughts than to accumulate them . He who has a splendid sideboard , should have an iron chest with a double lock upon it , and should hold in reserve ...
... poets may not . It is better , but it is also more difficult , to make a selection of thoughts than to accumulate them . He who has a splendid sideboard , should have an iron chest with a double lock upon it , and should hold in reserve ...
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... poets , small critics , lawyers who have much time on their hands and hanging heavily , come forward unfeed against him ... poem of Wordsworth's and read it ; I would rather say , read them all ; and , knowing that a mind like yours must ...
... poets , small critics , lawyers who have much time on their hands and hanging heavily , come forward unfeed against him ... poem of Wordsworth's and read it ; I would rather say , read them all ; and , knowing that a mind like yours must ...
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... poem which is yet unpub- lished and incomplete . Porson . Pity , with such abilities , he does not imitate the ancients . somewhat more . Southey . Whom did they imitate ? If his genius is equal to theirs . he has no need of a guide ...
... poem which is yet unpub- lished and incomplete . Porson . Pity , with such abilities , he does not imitate the ancients . somewhat more . Southey . Whom did they imitate ? If his genius is equal to theirs . he has no need of a guide ...
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383 페이지 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
518 페이지 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
375 페이지 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
366 페이지 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
443 페이지 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
374 페이지 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
127 페이지 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
382 페이지 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
386 페이지 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
44 페이지 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...