Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works ... In Two VolumesWilliam Milner., 1835 |
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... sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the ...
... sent back into England , that , " under pretence of privacy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the ...
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... by that impression grow , Till thy tears , mixt with mine , do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee , my heaven , dissolved so . VOL . I. C On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 25.
... by that impression grow , Till thy tears , mixt with mine , do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee , my heaven , dissolved so . VOL . I. C On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 25.
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... sent estimation , the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will ...
... sent estimation , the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will ...
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... sent to Oxford , where he was considered as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggish- ness and laxity , a ...
... sent to Oxford , where he was considered as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggish- ness and laxity , a ...
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... sent to St. Paul's school , under the care of mr . Gill ; and removed , in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's college in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the ...
... sent to St. Paul's school , under the care of mr . Gill ; and removed , in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's college in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration Æneid afterwards appears beauties better blank verse called Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden duke earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius georgic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden kind king known labour lady language Latin learning less lines lived lord lord Conway ment Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced published racter reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems seldom sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller whigs words write written wrote
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304 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.
34 페이지 - 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.
120 페이지 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, . by calling imagination to the help of reason.
281 페이지 - 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.
412 페이지 - ... 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.
58 페이지 - 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.
77 페이지 - 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.
437 페이지 - 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.
32 페이지 - 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.
433 페이지 - 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...