Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Tom 1J. Nichols, 1779 |
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Strona 41
... endeavoured to be fingular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depreffes . it below its natural dignity , and re-- duces it from ftrength of thought to ...
... endeavoured to be fingular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depreffes . it below its natural dignity , and re-- duces it from ftrength of thought to ...
Strona 46
... endeavoured to fupply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced com- binations of confufed magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be ...
... endeavoured to fupply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced com- binations of confufed magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be ...
Strona 89
... endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the ftile and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine par- ticularly the works of Cowley , who was almoft the laft of that race , and un- doubtedly the best ...
... endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the ftile and fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine par- ticularly the works of Cowley , who was almoft the laft of that race , and un- doubtedly the best ...
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... endeavoured to im- prove . Denham corrected his numbers by experience , and gained ground gra- dually upon the ruggedness of his age ; but what was acquired by Denham , was inherited by Waller . The next poem , of which the fubject ...
... endeavoured to im- prove . Denham corrected his numbers by experience , and gained ground gra- dually upon the ruggedness of his age ; but what was acquired by Denham , was inherited by Waller . The next poem , of which the fubject ...
Strona 43
... endeavoured to perfuade Portland to a declaration like his own , by a letter extant in Fenton's edition .. " But for me , " fays he , " you had ne-- " ver known any thing of this business , " which was prepared for another ; and ...
... endeavoured to perfuade Portland to a declaration like his own , by a letter extant in Fenton's edition .. " But for me , " fays he , " you had ne-- " ver known any thing of this business , " which was prepared for another ; and ...
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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.
Strona 4 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Strona 59 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
Strona 113 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
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.
Strona 32 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
Strona 104 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
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.
Strona 145 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.