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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... most " excufeable of all that I have written ; " and I with lefs apology was needful for thefe . As there is no recalling what " is got abroad , the pieces here re- 66 published I have revised and corrected , " and rendered them as ...
... most " excufeable of all that I have written ; " and I with lefs apology was needful for thefe . As there is no recalling what " is got abroad , the pieces here re- 66 published I have revised and corrected , " and rendered them as ...
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... , not only 66 by suggesting the most beautiful inci- " dent in them , but by making all pof- " fible provifion for the fuccefs of the " whole . " That That his Grace fhould have fuggefted the incident to which YOUNG . 27.
... , not only 66 by suggesting the most beautiful inci- " dent in them , but by making all pof- " fible provifion for the fuccefs of the " whole . " That That his Grace fhould have fuggefted the incident to which YOUNG . 27.
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... most beau- tiful incident in what is furely not his leaft beautiful compofition . The paffage juft quoted is , in a poem afterwards ad- dreffed to Walpole , literally copied : Be this thy partial finile from cenfure free ; ' Twas meant ...
... most beau- tiful incident in what is furely not his leaft beautiful compofition . The paffage juft quoted is , in a poem afterwards ad- dreffed to Walpole , literally copied : Be this thy partial finile from cenfure free ; ' Twas meant ...
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... most eligible , as it hurts our- " felves leaft , and gives vice and folly " the greatest offence . - Laughing at the " mifconduct of the world , will , in a great meafure , cafe us of any more " difagreeable paffion about it . One ...
... most eligible , as it hurts our- " felves leaft , and gives vice and folly " the greatest offence . - Laughing at the " mifconduct of the world , will , in a great meafure , cafe us of any more " difagreeable paffion about it . One ...
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... most fpirited kind of Poetry , and that the Pin- daric is the most spirited kind of Ode . " This I fpeak , " he adds , " at my own ( 6 very great peril . But truth has an " eternal title to our confeffion , though 66 we are fure to ...
... most fpirited kind of Poetry , and that the Pin- daric is the most spirited kind of Ode . " This I fpeak , " he adds , " at my own ( 6 very great peril . But truth has an " eternal title to our confeffion , though 66 we are fure to ...
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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.