Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 1 卷J. Nichols, 1779 |
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第 vi 頁
... some of Dryden's works in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more cor- rect chronology , will publifh it ; but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous ...
... some of Dryden's works in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more cor- rect chronology , will publifh it ; but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous ...
第 15 頁
... Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards earl of Arling- ton , from April to December in 1650 , are preserved in " Miscellanea Aulica , ” a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters being written like thofe of other ...
... Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterwards earl of Arling- ton , from April to December in 1650 , are preserved in " Miscellanea Aulica , ” a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters being written like thofe of other ...
第 17 頁
... some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " bufinefs , " fays Sprat , " paffed of courfe into other " hands ; " and Cowley being no longer ufeful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that " under ...
... some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " bufinefs , " fays Sprat , " paffed of courfe into other " hands ; " and Cowley being no longer ufeful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that " under ...
第 37 頁
... some account . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only : wrote verses , and very often ...
... some account . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only : wrote verses , and very often ...
第 39 頁
... some account . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only : wrote verses , and very often ...
... some account . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only : wrote verses , and very often ...
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第 38 頁 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
第 4 頁 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
第 59 頁 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
第 113 頁 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
第 75 頁 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
第 32 頁 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
第 104 頁 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
第 161 頁 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
第 145 頁 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.