Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Tom 1J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... fortune of com- plaints , and feems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in fome ftanzas , written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of fatire ...
... fortune of com- plaints , and feems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in fome ftanzas , written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of fatire ...
Strona 33
... fortune . " So differently are things feen , and fo differently are they fhown ; but actions are vifible , though motives are fecret . Cowley certainly retired ; firft to Barn- elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surrey . He feems ...
... fortune . " So differently are things feen , and fo differently are they fhown ; but actions are vifible , though motives are fecret . Cowley certainly retired ; firft to Barn- elms , and afterwards to Chertsey , in Surrey . He feems ...
Strona 35
... fortune here to 66 66 66 begin with . And befides , I can get no money from my tenants , and have my meadows eaten up every night " by cattle put in by my neighbours . " What this fignifies , or may come to " in time , God knows ; if it ...
... fortune here to 66 66 66 begin with . And befides , I can get no money from my tenants , and have my meadows eaten up every night " by cattle put in by my neighbours . " What this fignifies , or may come to " in time , God knows ; if it ...
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... poetical Propagation of Light . The Prince's favour is diffus'd o'er all , From which all fortunes , names and na . tures fall ; Then Then from thofe wombs of ftars , the Bride's bright 74 CO W LE Y. A lover's heart, a hand grenado. ...
... poetical Propagation of Light . The Prince's favour is diffus'd o'er all , From which all fortunes , names and na . tures fall ; Then Then from thofe wombs of ftars , the Bride's bright 74 CO W LE Y. A lover's heart, a hand grenado. ...
Strona 87
... fortunes without gain imported be , Such mighty cuftom's paid to thee : For joy , like wine , kept clofe does bet- ter tafte ; If it take air before , its fpirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife ...
... fortunes without gain imported be , Such mighty cuftom's paid to thee : For joy , like wine , kept clofe does bet- ter tafte ; If it take air before , its fpirits waste . To the following comparison of a man that travels , and his wife ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.