Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And, Lives of Sundry Eminent PersonsCharles Tilt, 1840 - 502 頁 |
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... WALLER 71 KING 151 WALSH 97 LYTTELTON 391 WATTS 345 MALLET 380 WEST 352 MILTON 27 YALDEN 224 OTWAY 69 YOUNG 362 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS . Page Page ASCHAM BARRETIER 495 CHEYNEL 456 442 DRAKE , SIR FRANCIS 415 BLAKE . 408 MORIN 446 ...
... WALLER 71 KING 151 WALSH 97 LYTTELTON 391 WATTS 345 MALLET 380 WEST 352 MILTON 27 YALDEN 224 OTWAY 69 YOUNG 362 LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS . Page Page ASCHAM BARRETIER 495 CHEYNEL 456 442 DRAKE , SIR FRANCIS 415 BLAKE . 408 MORIN 446 ...
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... Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Denham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted ...
... Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton . Denham and Waller sought another way to fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphysic style only in his lines upon Hobson the Carrier . Cowley adopted ...
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... Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous : he sinks willingly down to his ge- neral carelessness ...
... Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous : he sinks willingly down to his ge- neral carelessness ...
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... Waller , ' says Prior , ' im- proved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . ' He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludi- crous , didactic , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all ...
... Waller , ' says Prior , ' im- proved our versification , and Dryden perfected it . ' He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludi- crous , didactic , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all ...
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... Waller's army . But the new modelling of the army proved an obstruction to the design . ' An event cannot be set at a much greater distance than by having been only designed , about some time , if a man be not much mistaken . Milton ...
... Waller's army . But the new modelling of the army proved an obstruction to the design . ' An event cannot be set at a much greater distance than by having been only designed , about some time , if a man be not much mistaken . Milton ...
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第 32 頁 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
第 326 頁 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
第 12 頁 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
第 187 頁 - His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious ; he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
第 301 頁 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
第 48 頁 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.
第 283 頁 - That's very strange ; but if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings— tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
第 322 頁 - ... powers; he never attempted to make that better which was already good, nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
第 323 頁 - ... correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of , Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation,...
第 283 頁 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, ' heyday, gentlemen, (says the doctor) what's the meaning of this visit?