Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 1 卷J. Nichols, 1779 |
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第 17 頁
... most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fuf- pect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some ...
... most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fuf- pect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some ...
第 37 頁
... most amiable of mankind ; and this pofthumous praise may be fafely credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who ...
... most amiable of mankind ; and this pofthumous praise may be fafely credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who ...
第 86 頁
... most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold tafter of delight , Who , whilft thou fhould'ft but tafte , devour'ft it quite ! Thou Thou bring'ft us an eftate , yet leay'ft us poor 86 COWLEY . Hope, whofe weak being ruin'd is, ...
... most hopeless thing of all . Hope , thou bold tafter of delight , Who , whilft thou fhould'ft but tafte , devour'ft it quite ! Thou Thou bring'ft us an eftate , yet leay'ft us poor 86 COWLEY . Hope, whofe weak being ruin'd is, ...
第 90 頁
... most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has perfuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a king- dom . I will ...
... most hazardous attempts of criticism . I know not whether Scaliger himself has perfuaded many readers to join with him in his preference of the two favourite odes , which he estimates in his raptures at the value of a king- dom . I will ...
第 134 頁
... most of all unfit , And rough as are the winds that fight with it . His expreffions have fometimes a de- gree of meanness that furpaffes expecta- tion : Nay , gentle guefts , he cries , fince now you're in , The ftory of your gallant ...
... most of all unfit , And rough as are the winds that fight with it . His expreffions have fometimes a de- gree of meanness that furpaffes expecta- tion : Nay , gentle guefts , he cries , fince now you're in , The ftory of your gallant ...
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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.