The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volume 2William Milner., 1835 |
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... shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy ...
... shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy ...
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... shew what they shall have to catch and carry : " Twas now , when flowery lawns the prospect made , And flowing brooks beneath a forest shade , A lowing heifer , loveliest of the herd , Stood feeding by ; while two fierce bulls prepar'd ...
... shew what they shall have to catch and carry : " Twas now , when flowery lawns the prospect made , And flowing brooks beneath a forest shade , A lowing heifer , loveliest of the herd , Stood feeding by ; while two fierce bulls prepar'd ...
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... shew little wit and little virtue . Yet to him , it must be confessed , that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were ...
... shew little wit and little virtue . Yet to him , it must be confessed , that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were ...
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... shew with how little clearness he is content to think , and how little his thoughts are recom- mended by his language : " As to its efficient cause , wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitu ...
... shew with how little clearness he is content to think , and how little his thoughts are recom- mended by his language : " As to its efficient cause , wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitu ...
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... shew particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his country , till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impunity , but triumphs in his dignity and preferment . I do not know that any ...
... shew particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his country , till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impunity , but triumphs in his dignity and preferment . I do not know that any ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance Addison afterwards AMBROSE PHILIPS appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton friends friendship gave genius happy honour Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning letter lines lived lord lord Halifax Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed once Orrery panegyric passion pastorals performance perhaps Philips Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young
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Página 224 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Página 224 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Página 410 - I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The 'Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Página 287 - 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.
Página 335 - Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action will look with veneration on the writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
Página 365 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Página 285 - Essay would be unprofitably tedious; but I cannot forbear to observe, that the comparison of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey of a traveller in the Alps, is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.
Página 329 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 231 - 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.
Página 349 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.