Virgidemiarum: SatiresWilliam Pickering, 1825 - 151 頁 |
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第 67 頁 - Or list he spend the time in sportful game, In daily courting of his lovely dame, Hang on her lips, melt in her wanton eye...
第 xiii 頁 - The indignation of the satirist is always the result of good sense. Nor are the thorns of severe invective unmixed with the flowers of pure poetry. The characters are delineated in strong and lively colouring ; and their discriminations are touched with the masterly traces of genuine humour. The versification is equally energetic and elegant, and the fabric of the couplets approaches to the modern standard.
第 iv 頁 - Lo, there th' unthankful swallow takes her rest, And fills the tunnel with her circled nest. " His satires are neither cramped by personal hostility, nor spun out to vague declamations on vice ; but give us the form and pressure of the times, exhibited in the faults of coeval literature, and in the foppery or sordid traits of prevailing manners. The age was undoubtedly fertile in eccentricity.
第 89 頁 - Satyrs should be like the Porcupine, That shoots sharpe quils out in each angry line, And wounds the blushing cheeke, and fiery eye, Of him that heares, and readeth guiltily.
第 128 頁 - Halifax, next after such his apprehension, and being condemned, be taken to the Gibbet, and there have his head cut off from his body.
第 xiii 頁 - ANALYSIS OF BISHOP HALL'S SATIRES; BY MR. WARTON. From the few theett of Vol. W. of his History of Poetry, which were printed, but not published. THESE Satires are marked with a classical precision, to which English poetry had yet rarely attained. They are replete with animation of style and sentiment.
第 74 頁 - All scarfed with pied colours to the knee, Whom Indian pillage hath made fortunate, And now he 'gins to loath his former state...
第 34 頁 - Could no unhusked acorn leave the tree But there was challenge made whose it might be And if some nice and...
第 121 頁 - This is an allusion to an old distich, made and often quoted in the age of scholastic science : Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores ; Sed Genus et Species cogitur ire pedes.
第 xv 頁 - I FIRST ADVENTURE*, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight : I FIRST ADVENTURE, follow me who list, And be the SECOND ENGLISH SATIRIST.