The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Tom 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Strona lix
... given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he ...
... given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he ...
Strona lxxxix
... given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb ap- propriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanicks ; so the most heroick ...
... given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb ap- propriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanicks ; so the most heroick ...
Strona xci
... given not the same numbers , but the same dic- tion , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only ...
... given not the same numbers , but the same dic- tion , to the gentle Anacreon and the tempestuous Pindar . His versification seems to have had very little of his care ; and if what he thinks be true , that his numbers are unmusical only ...
Strona xcvi
... given one example of representative ver- sification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the ...
... given one example of representative ver- sification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the ...
Strona ciii
... given in abridg- ment by the extant Jewish writers ? And what reader of the Bible , not destitute of common feeling , will concur in the critic's assertion , that the effect of the theocratical system is to prevent us from readily ...
... given in abridg- ment by the extant Jewish writers ? And what reader of the Bible , not destitute of common feeling , will concur in the critic's assertion , that the effect of the theocratical system is to prevent us from readily ...
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Anacreon antiperistasis appear battle of Newbury beauteous beauty BISHOP OF WORCESTER blest breast bright CATULLUS conceits Cowley Cowley's Davideis death delight didst divine Donne doth e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame gentle gold Gondibert grow happy hast heart heaven honour images imitated join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour learned less light lines live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mihi mind mistress Muse nature ne'er never night noble NORTHERN EXPEDITION numbers o'er once Orinda Ovid painted Pharsalia Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry Pope praise rage reader sacred Sappho scarce shew shine sometimes soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse Virgil virtue Whilst wine wise wonder write
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Strona xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Strona 161 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Strona xxxi - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Strona xxviii - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Strona lxxxvii - 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 57 - The ribands, jewels, and the rings, The lace, the paint and warlike things That make up all their magazines; If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts, The letters, embassies and spies, The frowns, and smiles and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries Numberless, nameless...
Strona xxxix - 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, So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world by that impression grow, Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world, by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
Strona xxvii - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry' T£Xvrl (ii(iT)TixT) 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 142 - The sun's gilt tent for ever move, And still as thou in pomp dost go The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. Nor amidst all these triumphs dost thou scorn The humble glow-worms to adorn, And with those living spangles gild (O greatness without pride !) the bushes of the field. Night, and her ugly subjects thou dost fright, And sleep, the lazy owl of night ; Ashamed and fearful to appear They screen their horrid shapes with the black hemisphere.
Strona xxxii - This kind of writing, which was, I believe, borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of a very extensive and various knowledge; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.