Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Tom 1J. Nichols, 1779 |
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Strona ix
... MILTON , BUTLER . III . DRYDEN . IV . DENHAM , SPRAT , ROSCOMMON , ROCHESTER , YALDEN , OTWAY , DUKE , DORSET , HALI- FAX , STEPNEY , WALSH , GARTH , KING , J. PHILIPS , SMITH , POMFRET , HUGHES . A Head is engraved of every Poet marked ...
... MILTON , BUTLER . III . DRYDEN . IV . DENHAM , SPRAT , ROSCOMMON , ROCHESTER , YALDEN , OTWAY , DUKE , DORSET , HALI- FAX , STEPNEY , WALSH , GARTH , KING , J. PHILIPS , SMITH , POMFRET , HUGHES . A Head is engraved of every Poet marked ...
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... Milton , and Pope , might be faid “ to " lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned ...
... Milton , and Pope , might be faid “ to " lifp in numbers ; " and have given fuch early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehenfion of things , as to more tardy minds feems fcarcely credible . But of the learned ...
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... Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , feemed unable to conteft the palm with any other of the ...
... Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , feemed unable to conteft the palm with any other of the ...
Strona 26
... Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own con- ceptions . At the Restoration , after all the di ...
... Milton is generally content to exprefs the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much lofs of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own con- ceptions . At the Restoration , after all the di ...
Strona 49
... Milton . Denham and Waller fought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfick ftile only in his lines upon Hobfon the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- ceffors , · E ...
... Milton . Denham and Waller fought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfick ftile only in his lines upon Hobfon the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- ceffors , · E ...
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Strona 38 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
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Strona 75 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
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Strona 161 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
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