Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Work, Selected from the Most Distinguished WritersA. Thom & Sons, 1857 - 508페이지 |
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... prose work , entitled " A View of the State of Ireland , " remained in manuscript from the time it was composed , in 1596 , until 1633 , when it was published by Sir James Ware . Of this production it may be observed , in the language ...
... prose work , entitled " A View of the State of Ireland , " remained in manuscript from the time it was composed , in 1596 , until 1633 , when it was published by Sir James Ware . Of this production it may be observed , in the language ...
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... prose compositions , espe- cially his famous romance of the " Arcadia , " and the " Defence of Poesy , " " have shown the capacity of the English language for spirit , variety , graceful idiom , and masculine firmness . " The beauty and ...
... prose compositions , espe- cially his famous romance of the " Arcadia , " and the " Defence of Poesy , " " have shown the capacity of the English language for spirit , variety , graceful idiom , and masculine firmness . " The beauty and ...
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... prose , were , like many other works of which the world has been proud , written in prison . It is re- markable that , though composed while suffering under persecution , no trace of angry feeling against any human being , or any human ...
... prose , were , like many other works of which the world has been proud , written in prison . It is re- markable that , though composed while suffering under persecution , no trace of angry feeling against any human being , or any human ...
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... prose compositions , has been compared with Addison In describing his visit to Stratford - upon - Avon , where Shakspeare was born , and the reflections which crowded upon his mind while standing at the spot where the remains of the ...
... prose compositions , has been compared with Addison In describing his visit to Stratford - upon - Avon , where Shakspeare was born , and the reflections which crowded upon his mind while standing at the spot where the remains of the ...
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... prose and in verse . He tempered the severity of the lawyer by the elegance of his manners , and the accomplishments of polite literature . He was a faithful advocate , and an incorrupt judge ; and equally remark- able for his contempt ...
... prose and in verse . He tempered the severity of the lawyer by the elegance of his manners , and the accomplishments of polite literature . He was a faithful advocate , and an incorrupt judge ; and equally remark- able for his contempt ...
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Addison admired afterwards Allan Ramsay amiable appeared Beaumont and Fletcher beautiful Ben Jonson biographers born celebrated character Chaucer church composed composition Cowper critical Cyclopedia death delight diction died distinguished dramatic Dryden Earl Edinburgh Edinburgh Review edition elegance eminent England English language English Poetry English poets essays excellence Faerie Queene fame fancy father favour feeling Fletcher friends genius Goldsmith heart honour humour interesting Ireland Johnson labours language learned literary literature lived London Lord memoir ment merits Milton mind moral muse nature never observes Paradise Lost period poem poet's poetical poetry political Pope popular possessed praise productions prose published racter reader received religious remarkable Review sacred Sacred Poets satire says selected Shakspeare Sir Walter Sir Walter Scott sketch specimens Spenser spirit style sweet Swift talents taste thought tion verse Westminster Abbey Westminster School writer written wrote young
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60 페이지 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
361 페이지 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
460 페이지 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low • So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that...
60 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.
361 페이지 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
312 페이지 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
281 페이지 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
333 페이지 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
184 페이지 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit: Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
218 페이지 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.