The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that ...
... fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that ...
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... fame thing to that " purpose . " 66 This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the man- ners of that time were fo tinged ...
... fame thing to that " purpose . " 66 This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the man- ners of that time were fo tinged ...
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... fame time were produced from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works ...
... fame time were produced from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works ...
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... fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfick style only in his lines upon Hobfon the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predeceffors , having as much fentiment , and more mufick . Suckling ...
... fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfick style only in his lines upon Hobfon the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predeceffors , having as much fentiment , and more mufick . Suckling ...
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... fame that I was then ; No flesh is now the fame ' twas then in me , And that my mind is chang'd yourself may fee . The fame thoughts to retain ftill , and intents , Were more inconftant far ; for accidents Must of all things moft ...
... fame that I was then ; No flesh is now the fame ' twas then in me , And that my mind is chang'd yourself may fee . The fame thoughts to retain ftill , and intents , Were more inconftant far ; for accidents Must of all things moft ...
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Page 77 - 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.
Page 76 - 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...
Page 98 - ... 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...
Page 473 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 23 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is upon its first production acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed, to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
Page 98 - I had taken two degrees, as the manner is, signified many ways, how much better it would content them that I would stay ; as by many letters full of kindness and loving respect, both before that time, and long after, I was assured of their singular good affection towards me.
Page 24 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Page 142 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Page 103 - ... of his adversaries calling him pedagogue and school-master; whereas it is well known he never set up for a public school, to teach all the young fry of a parish ; but only was willing to impart his learning and knowledge to his relations, and the sons of gentlemen who were his intimate friends, and that neither his writings nor his way of teaching ever savoured in the least of pedantry.
Page 384 - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.