Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 1 卷J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... told , that in the Col- lege of Physicians there is fome me- morial of Dryden's funeral , but my intelligence was not true ; the story therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it . There is in Farquhar's ...
... told , that in the Col- lege of Physicians there is fome me- morial of Dryden's funeral , but my intelligence was not true ; the story therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it . There is in Farquhar's ...
第 vii 頁
... told that Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been prin- ted before . The former edition I have not feen . This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manu- fcript . March 15 , 1779 . DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER . The LIVES OF THE POETS [ vii ]
... told that Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been prin- ted before . The former edition I have not feen . This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manu- fcript . March 15 , 1779 . DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER . The LIVES OF THE POETS [ vii ]
第 vi 頁
... told , that in the College of Phyficians there is fome memorial of Dryden's funeral , but my intelligence was not true ; the story therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it . There is in Farquhar's Letters an ...
... told , that in the College of Phyficians there is fome memorial of Dryden's funeral , but my intelligence was not true ; the story therefore wants the credit which fuch a teftimony would have given it . There is in Farquhar's Letters an ...
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... told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then ne- ver had ...
... told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then ne- ver had ...
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... told the fame thing to that purpose . " C This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so ...
... told the fame thing to that purpose . " C This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so ...
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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.