Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1P.C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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Pàgina 14
... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , un- luckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , un- luckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
Pàgina 15
... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes ad- mires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes ad- mires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
Pàgina 17
... learning not very much fre- quented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree ...
... learning not very much fre- quented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree ...
Pàgina 18
... learning and religion , And virtue and such engredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such engredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
Pàgina 30
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have ...
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have ...
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Pàgina 72 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pàgina 298 - 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. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Pàgina 2 - Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Pàgina 299 - So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
Pàgina 28 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam,. It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Pàgina 122 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.; But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with,, his philosophy.
Pàgina 91 - ... that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction, though he courted his fancy never so much; so that, in all the years he was about this poem, he may be said to have spent half his time therein.
Pàgina 405 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Pàgina 392 - Every reader of every party, since personal malice is past, and the papers which once inflamed the nation are read only as effusions of wit, must wish for more of the Whig Examiners; for on no occasion was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear.
Pàgina 424 - Whoever •wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.