The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly loft ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise sometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly loft ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise sometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
Pàgina 34
... labour fhould co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are fuch mix'd engines found , As hands of double office ; for the ground We till with them ; and them to heaven we raise ; Who prayerless labours , or , without ...
... labour fhould co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are fuch mix'd engines found , As hands of double office ; for the ground We till with them ; and them to heaven we raise ; Who prayerless labours , or , without ...
Pàgina 63
... labour pay With good unfought experiments by the way . COWLEY . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I ...
... labour pay With good unfought experiments by the way . COWLEY . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I ...
Pàgina 77
... labour'd birth of flavish brains , " Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts , whofe narrowness affords . " No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at words . " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , " To make ...
... labour'd birth of flavish brains , " Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts , whofe narrowness affords . " No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at words . " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , " To make ...
Pàgina 79
... labour , but must arise unexpectedly in fome hour propitious to poetry . He appears to have been one of the firft that un- derstood the neceffity of emancipating tranflation from the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting fingle ...
... labour , but must arise unexpectedly in fome hour propitious to poetry . He appears to have been one of the firft that un- derstood the neceffity of emancipating tranflation from the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting fingle ...
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Æneid againſt anſwer appears becauſe cenfured Charles Dryden compofition confidered converfation Cowley criticifm defign defire delight diſcovered Donne Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh expreffed expreffions fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure genius himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras itſelf John Dryden juft King labour laft leaft learning leaſt lefs lines Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfon perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reafon reft Regifter reprefented rhyme ſeems thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion tragedy tranflation univerfity uſed verfe verfification verſes Virgil Waller whofe write written