Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, 1권J. Murray, 1854 - 395페이지 |
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... received by writers for works that reflect credit on our literature . Johnson's original agreement for the Lives was two hundred guineas ; and for this sum he was to part with the entire copy- right . The success of the work , and ...
... received by writers for works that reflect credit on our literature . Johnson's original agreement for the Lives was two hundred guineas ; and for this sum he was to part with the entire copy- right . The success of the work , and ...
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... received was four hundred guineas . " I always said , " he observed to Nichols , " that the booksellers were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , have I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me ...
... received was four hundred guineas . " I always said , " he observed to Nichols , " that the booksellers were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , have I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me ...
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... Receives a Pardon - Publishes Paradise Lost ' and ' Para- dise Regained'- His three Wives - His Children and Nephews - Dies in London , and is buried in St. Giles ' , Cripplegate His Works and Cha- racter . " 81 SAMUEL BUTLER . - 1612 ...
... Receives a Pardon - Publishes Paradise Lost ' and ' Para- dise Regained'- His three Wives - His Children and Nephews - Dies in London , and is buried in St. Giles ' , Cripplegate His Works and Cha- racter . " 81 SAMUEL BUTLER . - 1612 ...
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... received account , and is derived principally from Aubrey . Abraham Cowley was the posthumous son of Thomas Cowley , citizen and stationer , and of the parish of St. Michael at Querne , a church in Cheapside , destroyed in the Great ...
... received account , and is derived principally from Aubrey . Abraham Cowley was the posthumous son of Thomas Cowley , citizen and stationer , and of the parish of St. Michael at Querne , a church in Cheapside , destroyed in the Great ...
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... received the news of his ill success not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' 22 20 The Latin poetry of Delicia Poetarum Scotorum would have done honour to any nation : at least till the publication ...
... received the news of his ill success not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' 22 20 The Latin poetry of Delicia Poetarum Scotorum would have done honour to any nation : at least till the publication ...
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341 페이지 - 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.
364 페이지 - 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.
141 페이지 - 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.
21 페이지 - 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.
162 페이지 - 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.
74 페이지 - 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.
380 페이지 - I am as free as Nature first made man, ^) Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
364 페이지 - 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.
76 페이지 - 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.
xiv 페이지 - 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.