The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1772 |
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... defign is to recommend piety . " I " confidered that pleasure was not the only end of poefy , and that even the " inftructions of morality were not fo wholly the bufinefs of a poet , as that " ( 66 precepts and examples of piety were ...
... defign is to recommend piety . " I " confidered that pleasure was not the only end of poefy , and that even the " inftructions of morality were not fo wholly the bufinefs of a poet , as that " ( 66 precepts and examples of piety were ...
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... defign'd , " Goes on to fea , and knows not to retire . " With roomy decks , her guns of mighty " Strength , Whofe low - laid mouths each mounting " billow laves , " Deep in her draught , and warlike in her < 6 length , " She seems a ...
... defign'd , " Goes on to fea , and knows not to retire . " With roomy decks , her guns of mighty " Strength , Whofe low - laid mouths each mounting " billow laves , " Deep in her draught , and warlike in her < 6 length , " She seems a ...
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... defign in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he fays , happened to him when he told it more plainly in his . preface to Juvenal . “ The defign , " says he , " you know is great , the ftory ...
... defign in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he fays , happened to him when he told it more plainly in his . preface to Juvenal . “ The defign , " says he , " you know is great , the ftory ...
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... defign was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the perfonal fatire , to which it might owe its firft reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bays probably imi- tated the dress , and mimicked the man- ner ...
... defign was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the perfonal fatire , to which it might owe its firft reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bays probably imi- tated the dress , and mimicked the man- ner ...
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... defign of reconciling the nation to the church of Rome be- came apparent , and the religion of the court gave the only efficacious title to its favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have ...
... defign of reconciling the nation to the church of Rome be- came apparent , and the religion of the court gave the only efficacious title to its favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have ...
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Страница 237 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Страница 212 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Страница 181 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Страница 283 - Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy.
Страница 140 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Страница 252 - Proffering the Hind to wait her half the way ; That, since the sky was clear, an hour of talk Might help her to beguile the tedious walk. With much good-will the motion was embrac'd...
Страница 244 - composition of great excellence in its kind, in which the familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn, and the grave with the humorous ; in which metre has neither weakened the force, nor clouded the perspicuity of...
Страница 164 - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes.
Страница 178 - Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation; by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of knowledge, and a powerful digestion...
Страница 213 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun : And precious sand from Southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.