Literary Pamphlets Chiefly Relating to Poetry from Sidney to Byron: I. Milton's 'Areopagitica'. II. Addison's 'A discourse on ancient and modern learning'. III. Pope's 'An essay on criticism'. IV. Byron's 'Letter to John Murray on the Rev. W. L. Bowles's strictures on Pope'. V. Wordsworth's 'A letter to a friend of Robert Burns'. VI. Bowles's Appendix - Two passages from "Two letters to the Right Hon. Lord Byron'Ernest Rhys Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1897 |
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Página 49
... once or oftner , but weekly that con- tinu'd Court - libell against the Parlament and City , 1 Printed , as the wet sheets can witnes , and dispers❜t among us for all that licencing can doe ? yet this is the prime service a man would ...
... once or oftner , but weekly that con- tinu'd Court - libell against the Parlament and City , 1 Printed , as the wet sheets can witnes , and dispers❜t among us for all that licencing can doe ? yet this is the prime service a man would ...
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... once a schism , is not unknown to have spread all over Asia , ere any Gospel or Epistle was seen in writing . If the amend- ment of manners be aym'd at , look into Italy and Spain , whether those places be one scruple the better , the ...
... once a schism , is not unknown to have spread all over Asia , ere any Gospel or Epistle was seen in writing . If the amend- ment of manners be aym'd at , look into Italy and Spain , whether those places be one scruple the better , the ...
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... a manual and a dagger . Milton may have stolen the pun from Erasmus . V. Jorten's Life , i . 358 . 2 The papal Prison , and once the papal fortress . which lerning amongst them was brought ; that this was AREOPAGITICA 61.
... a manual and a dagger . Milton may have stolen the pun from Erasmus . V. Jorten's Life , i . 358 . 2 The papal Prison , and once the papal fortress . which lerning amongst them was brought ; that this was AREOPAGITICA 61.
Página 62
... once begun , it was as little in my fear , that what words of complaint I heard among lerned men of other parts utter'd against the Inquisition , the same I should hear by as lerned men at home utterd in time of Parlament against an ...
... once begun , it was as little in my fear , that what words of complaint I heard among lerned men of other parts utter'd against the Inquisition , the same I should hear by as lerned men at home utterd in time of Parlament against an ...
Página 72
... once into the world with her divine Master , and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended , and his Apostles after him were laid asleep , then strait arose a wicked race of deceivers , who as that story goes ...
... once into the world with her divine Master , and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended , and his Apostles after him were laid asleep , then strait arose a wicked race of deceivers , who as that story goes ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admire Æneid ancient appear Aristotle artificial Bards beautiful blue bunting Bowles Bowles's Burns's Byron character Cowper Critics ding vessels Dr Currie's Dryden Dunciad Elijah Fenton English envy ev'n ev'ry express eyes fame faults fools genius Gilbert Burns give hath Heav'n Homer honour Horace Hounslow Heath human invariable judge judgment learn'd learning less letters liberty licencing living Lord Lord Byron Lord Roscommon manners Milton mind moral Muse nature ne'er never noble numbers o'er once opinion Ovid pamphlet passages passions perhaps person Petrarch Petrarch's Africa plain pleas'd poem poet poet's poetical Pope Pope's praise principles of poetry Quintilian reader recollection Review Robert Burns Roman Rome rules Salisbury Plain satire sense ship speak spirit sublime suppression taste things thought tion true truth verse Virgil word writing Zoilus
Passagens conhecidas
Página 84 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 226 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, — its various tone, Each spring, — its various bias: Then at the balance let's be mute; We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 82 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 137 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Página 157 - Nature, should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judg'd with coolness, tho...
Página 150 - Tis what the vicious fear, the virtuous shun, By fools 'tis hated, and by knaves undone! If wit so much from ign'rance undergo, Ah let not learning too commence its foe!
Página 17 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 75 - To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it...
Página 126 - And censure freely, who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too? Yet, if we look more closely, we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind. 20 Nature affords at least a glimm'ring light; The lines, tho...
Página 135 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of. fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, , She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.