The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. SheffieldB. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the name of Anacreon . Of these songs dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which , even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the name of Anacreon . Of these songs dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which , even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
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... translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour . E Great Rhea's son , If in ...
... translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour . E Great Rhea's son , If in ...
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... translation from servility , and instead of following his author at a distance , walked by his side ; and that , if he left versification yet improvable , he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled ...
... translation from servility , and instead of following his author at a distance , walked by his side ; and that , if he left versification yet improvable , he left likewise from time to time such specimens of excellence as enabled ...
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... translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwith- standing his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
... translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwith- standing his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
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... translation of " Cato Major . " He now resided in France as one of the followers of the exiled King ; and , to divert the melancholy of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his masters to write occasional verses ; one of which ...
... translation of " Cato Major . " He now resided in France as one of the followers of the exiled King ; and , to divert the melancholy of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his masters to write occasional verses ; one of which ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards Almanzor ancients appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax thee thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote
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64 페이지 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
98 페이지 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there / is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting, whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
49 페이지 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
25 페이지 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre 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.
61 페이지 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
387 페이지 - 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.
252 페이지 - ... vigorous; what is little is gay, what is great is splendid. He may be thought to mention himself too frequently; but while he forces himself upon our esteem, we cannot refuse him to stand high in his own.
268 페이지 - Grand Chorus As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
80 페이지 - Lost, could descend from his elevation to rescue children from the perplexity of grammatical confusion, and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his conversation; attended him every afternoon, except on Sundays. Milton, who, in his letter to Hartlib, had declared, that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French...
50 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.