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... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
... shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice ...
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... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance There is a discourse ...
... shew his loyalty at the hazard of his friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastick , there has been no appearance There is a discourse ...
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... shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often'such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
... shew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , in- stead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often'such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ...
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... shew'd me you . year , have DONNY Yet more abtruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm . If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All All the world's riches : and in good men ...
... shew'd me you . year , have DONNY Yet more abtruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm . If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion All All the world's riches : and in good men ...
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... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name ...
... shew , And all with as much ease might taken be , As she at first took me : For ne'er did light so clear Among the waves appear , Though every night the sun himself set there . The poetical effect of a lover's name upon glass : My name ...
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Strona 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Strona 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Strona 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Strona 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Strona 218 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Strona 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Strona 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Strona 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Strona 36 - 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 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...