Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Young. Dyer. Mallet. Shenstone. Akenside. Lyttelton. West. GrayJ. Nichols, 1781 |
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... mind , who will hereafter peruse the Night Thoughts with lefs fatisfaction ; who will with they had ftill been deceived ; who will quarrel with me for discovering that no fuch character as Lorenzo ever yet difgraced human nature , or ...
... mind , who will hereafter peruse the Night Thoughts with lefs fatisfaction ; who will with they had ftill been deceived ; who will quarrel with me for discovering that no fuch character as Lorenzo ever yet difgraced human nature , or ...
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... mind , and the complexion of his life . Ah me ! the dire effect Of loitering here , of death defrauded long ; Of old fo gracious ( and let that fuffice ) , My very mafter knows me not . I've been fo long remember'd , I'm forgot . When I ...
... mind , and the complexion of his life . Ah me ! the dire effect Of loitering here , of death defrauded long ; Of old fo gracious ( and let that fuffice ) , My very mafter knows me not . I've been fo long remember'd , I'm forgot . When I ...
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... to have ftarted in his mind at the pre- fent moment , and his thoughts appear the effects of chance , fometimes ad- verfe , G4 verfe , and fometimes lucky , with very little operation YOUN G. 103 OF Young's Poems it is difficult to ...
... to have ftarted in his mind at the pre- fent moment , and his thoughts appear the effects of chance , fometimes ad- verfe , G4 verfe , and fometimes lucky , with very little operation YOUN G. 103 OF Young's Poems it is difficult to ...
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... the reader is dif appointed is , that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more than poetical , by fpreading over his mind a general general obfcurity of facred horror , that oppreffes diftinction , 104 YOUNG .
... the reader is dif appointed is , that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more than poetical , by fpreading over his mind a general general obfcurity of facred horror , that oppreffes diftinction , 104 YOUNG .
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... mind , and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhaufted by a fingle perufal ; his conceits pleafe only when they furprise . To tranflate he never condefcended , unless his Paraphrase on Job may be con- fidered as a verfion ; in ...
... mind , and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhaufted by a fingle perufal ; his conceits pleafe only when they furprise . To tranflate he never condefcended , unless his Paraphrase on Job may be con- fidered as a verfion ; in ...
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Página 18 - 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.
Página 17 - Tis his with mock passion to glow ! Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs and die.
Página 19 - ... always to mean more than he said. Would you have any more reasons? An interval of above forty years has pretty well destroyed the charm. A dead lord ranks with commoners; vanity is no longer interested in the matter ; for a new road has become an old one.
Página 35 - In the character of his Elegy 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.
Página 8 - The pleasure of Shenstone was all in his eye ; he valued what he valued merely for its looks; nothing raised his indignation more than to ask if there were any fishes in his water.
Página 26 - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Página 107 - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
Página 6 - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Página 16 - I priz'd every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleas'd me before; But now they are past, and I sigh; And I grieve that I priz'd them no more.
Página 30 - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that " The Bard" promotes any truth, moral or political.