The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Samuel Johnson. 1 This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love ex- cellence , is natural ; it is natural like- wife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ...
Samuel Johnson. 1 This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love ex- cellence , is natural ; it is natural like- wife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ...
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... reader , far from won- dering that he miffed them , won- ders more frequently by what perverse- nefs of industry they were ever found . But Wit , abftracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philofophically ...
... reader , far from won- dering that he miffed them , won- ders more frequently by what perverse- nefs of industry they were ever found . But Wit , abftracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philofophically ...
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... reader com- monly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and though he fometimes ad- mires is feldom pleased . From this account of their compofi- tions it will be readily inferred , that they were not fuccefsful in representing or ...
... reader com- monly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and though he fometimes ad- mires is feldom pleased . From this account of their compofi- tions it will be readily inferred , that they were not fuccefsful in representing or ...
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... A S the authors of this race were per- haps more defirous of being admired than underflood , they fometimes drew their conceits from receffes of learning not not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . 50 COWLE Y.
... A S the authors of this race were per- haps more defirous of being admired than underflood , they fometimes drew their conceits from receffes of learning not not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . 50 COWLE Y.
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Samuel Johnson. not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midft the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft , That right Porphyrian tree ...
Samuel Johnson. not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The facred tree midft the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it reft , And built his perfum'd neft , That right Porphyrian tree ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY againſt Anacreon anſwer appear becauſe Clarendon compofitions conceits confeffed confidered converfation copacy Cowley Cowley's Cromwel Davideis defcription deferve defign defire delight diſcovered Donne doth Dryden eafily elegance Engliſh expreffion fafe faid fame fatire fays fcarce fecond feems feldom fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould filk fince fion firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies fubject fuch fuffered fufficiently fupply fuppofed furely himſelf Hiſtory houfe king king's known lady laft laſt learning leaſt lefs lines loft lord lord Conway mafter meaſure mifs Milton mind moft moſt muſt nature never numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion parliament perufal Petrarch Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poetical poetry poets praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publiſhed purpoſe racter reafon reft reprefented ſeem Sprat Taffo thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion ufed uſed verfe verſes Waller whofe worfe write
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Strona 4 - monly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, Accidentally determined to fome particular direction; The great painter of | the prefent age had the firft fondnefs ; -for his art excited by the perufal of / Richardfon's treatife. • By his mother's felicitation he was Admitted into
Strona 3 - from Sprat's account, that he always acknowledged her care, and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude. * In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenfer's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verfe, he became, as he relates,
Strona 76 - It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmnefs makes my
Strona 96 - between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the merey of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention; fuch invention as, by producing
Strona 39 - blows; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you. But, you of learning and religion, And virtue and fuch ingredients, have made A mithridate, whofe operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or faid. Though the following lines of Donne, on the laft night of the year, havefomething in them too
Strona 78 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That fhews more coft than art.. Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be feen, If there be nothing
Strona 111 - narrative, .and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence, as fupprefles curiofity. We go with the hiftorian as he goes, and flop with him when he flops. All amplification is frivolous and vain; all addition to that which is already fufficient for the purpofes of religion,
Strona 24 - that were placed near. him, and then went with them out of the church, leaving the reft in folicitude and amazement. They immediately fent guards to proper places, and that night apprehended Tomkyns and Waller; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted, from which it appeared that the parliament and the
Strona 31 - not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who