Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 1 卷J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute fhe lately grew , And with the fpurious brood loads now the prefs ; Laborious effects of idlenefs ! As As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended COWL E Y. 137.
... ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute fhe lately grew , And with the fpurious brood loads now the prefs ; Laborious effects of idlenefs ! As As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended COWL E Y. 137.
第 138 頁
Samuel Johnson. As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to confift of twelve , there is no opportunity for fuch criticifm as Epick poems commonly fupply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly fhewn by the ...
Samuel Johnson. As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to confift of twelve , there is no opportunity for fuch criticifm as Epick poems commonly fupply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly fhewn by the ...
第 140 頁
... Davideis fu- perior to the Jerufalem of Taffo , " which , fays he , the poet , with all his care , has not totally purged from pedantry . " If by pedantry is meant that minute knowledge which is derived from parti- cular fciences and ...
... Davideis fu- perior to the Jerufalem of Taffo , " which , fays he , the poet , with all his care , has not totally purged from pedantry . " If by pedantry is meant that minute knowledge which is derived from parti- cular fciences and ...
第 142 頁
... Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably fquandered . Atten- tion has no relief ; the affections are ne- ver moved ; we are fometimes furprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , admire ...
... Davideis , as of all Cowley's works , we find wit and learning unprofitably fquandered . Atten- tion has no relief ; the affections are ne- ver moved ; we are fometimes furprised , but never delighted , and find much to admire , admire ...
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... virgin ) but few.fuitors knew The common prostitute the lately grew , And with the fpurious brood loads now the prefs ;? IJ Laborious effects of idleness ! As 44 As the Davideis affords only four books , though COWLEY . 137.
... virgin ) but few.fuitors knew The common prostitute the lately grew , And with the fpurious brood loads now the prefs ;? IJ Laborious effects of idleness ! As 44 As the Davideis affords only four books , though COWLEY . 137.
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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.