Lectures on English poetrySmith, Elder & Company, 1830 - 543 страници |
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... strange , and , to many ears , an unpleasing style of metre , and , the purity and severity of taste which reigned throughout it , was opposed to the popular admira- tion of the far - fetched conceits and the tawdry ornaments of Cowley ...
... strange , and , to many ears , an unpleasing style of metre , and , the purity and severity of taste which reigned throughout it , was opposed to the popular admira- tion of the far - fetched conceits and the tawdry ornaments of Cowley ...
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... strange plan which he imposed upon himself , or which was dictated to him by others , of beginning that col- lection with the works of Cowley . An Author too , of a far higher character for originality of mind , purity of taste ...
... strange plan which he imposed upon himself , or which was dictated to him by others , of beginning that col- lection with the works of Cowley . An Author too , of a far higher character for originality of mind , purity of taste ...
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... strange caprices of the Public taste , there is none more strange , than the preference which was given to the rhyme - tagged prose of Hoole , over this spirited and truly poetical production of Fairfax . Chap- man's Homer , with all ...
... strange caprices of the Public taste , there is none more strange , than the preference which was given to the rhyme - tagged prose of Hoole , over this spirited and truly poetical production of Fairfax . Chap- man's Homer , with all ...
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... more ? Yes , Man he could , the bond of all before ; In him he all things with strange order hurl'd , In him that full abridgment of the World ! " There are likewise many beautiful Lyrical pieces introduced . The 68 LECTURES ON.
... more ? Yes , Man he could , the bond of all before ; In him he all things with strange order hurl'd , In him that full abridgment of the World ! " There are likewise many beautiful Lyrical pieces introduced . The 68 LECTURES ON.
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... strange places crammed with observation , the which he vents in mangled forms . " Was there ever such matter in Folly ? was there ever , as Jacques calls him , such " a material fool ? " Are all the wise treatises which were ever ...
... strange places crammed with observation , the which he vents in mangled forms . " Was there ever such matter in Folly ? was there ever , as Jacques calls him , such " a material fool ? " Are all the wise treatises which were ever ...
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Страница 93 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Страница 204 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Страница 118 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements
Страница 498 - And immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Страница 370 - With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did. till...
Страница 141 - And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Страница 196 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style...
Страница xiv - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Страница 4 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Страница 198 - And wilt thou leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay ! And wilt thou leave me thus ? That hath loved thee so long In wealth and woe among ; And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus ? Say nay ! say nay...