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... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination , and elegance of language , have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of e- loquence , has produced a funeral ...
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination , and elegance of language , have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of e- loquence , has produced a funeral ...
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... written , but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " writ * This volume was not published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr ...
... written , but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " writ * This volume was not published before 1633 , when Cowley was fifteen years old . Dr ...
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... written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no ...
... written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no ...
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... written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affecta- tion of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that VOL . VI ...
... written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affecta- tion of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that VOL . VI ...
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... written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , per- haps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
... written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , per- haps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
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Strona 312 - 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.
Strona 51 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Strona 60 - 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...
Strona 305 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun ; And precious sand from southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.
Strona 117 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Strona 31 - 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.
Strona 23 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Strona 172 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Strona 117 - 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.
Strona 18 - What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ' their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.