Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, 第 1 卷J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... appear ; But all my too much moisture owe , To overflowings of the heart below .. COWLEY . The lover fuppofes his lady ac quainted with the ancient laws of au- gury and rites of facrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear ,, Will ...
... appear ; But all my too much moisture owe , To overflowings of the heart below .. COWLEY . The lover fuppofes his lady ac quainted with the ancient laws of au- gury and rites of facrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear ,, Will ...
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... ne'er did light fo clear Among the waves appear , Tho ' ev'ry night the fun himself fet there COWLEY . The The poetical effect of a Lover's name upon glafs : 66 COWL E Ý . Silence and horrour fill the place around: ...
... ne'er did light fo clear Among the waves appear , Tho ' ev'ry night the fun himself fet there COWLEY . The The poetical effect of a Lover's name upon glafs : 66 COWL E Ý . Silence and horrour fill the place around: ...
第 67 頁
... . He enjoys thy calmy funfhine now , And no breath stirring hears , In the clear heaven of thy brow , No fmalleft cloud appears . He fees thee gentle , fair and gay , And F 2 He COWLEY . 67 The poetical effect of a Lover's name ...
... . He enjoys thy calmy funfhine now , And no breath stirring hears , In the clear heaven of thy brow , No fmalleft cloud appears . He fees thee gentle , fair and gay , And F 2 He COWLEY . 67 The poetical effect of a Lover's name ...
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... appear ; Rather than all things wit , let be there . Several lights will not be feen , none If there be nothing elfe between . Men doubt , because they stand so thick i'th ' sky , If those be stars which paint the galaxy . In his verses ...
... appear ; Rather than all things wit , let be there . Several lights will not be feen , none If there be nothing elfe between . Men doubt , because they stand so thick i'th ' sky , If those be stars which paint the galaxy . In his verses ...
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Samuel Johnson. is vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light but the bound of an elastick mind . His levity never leaves his learning behind it ; the ...
Samuel Johnson. is vain to expect except from Cowley . His ftrength always appears in his agility ; his volatility is not the flutter of a light but the bound of an elastick mind . His levity never leaves his learning behind it ; the ...
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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.