The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Հատոր 11804 |
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... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily con- cluded , contain some ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily con- cluded , contain some ...
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... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an int- agination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an int- agination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative ...
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... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . , In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . , In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required ...
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... performance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " COOPER'S HILL " is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of ...
... performance : the numbers are musical , and the thoughts are just . " COOPER'S HILL " is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of ...
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... performance at either university was The Grateful Fair , written by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747. E. VOL . I. H This 1 This is sufficiently peevish in a man , who MILTON . 49 .
... performance at either university was The Grateful Fair , written by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cambridge , about 1747. E. VOL . I. H This 1 This is sufficiently peevish in a man , who MILTON . 49 .
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction Dryden duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry excellence faults favour friends genius honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes soon supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses Virgil virtue Waller Whigs write written wrote Young
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Էջ 562 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Էջ 44 - 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.
Էջ 55 - 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.
Էջ 673 - I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, "Yet even these bones...
Էջ 204 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. 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.
Էջ 12 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Էջ 557 - His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication, was not strictly true. His parental attention never abandoned them ; what he found amiss in the first edition, he silently corrected in those that followed. He appears to have revised the 'Iliad...
Էջ 5 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme command ; But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand!
Էջ 636 - Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Էջ 522 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.