A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).Macmillan and Company, 1889 - 415 страници |
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... taste of the reader will decide whether , in the main , the proportions are correctly de- signed . But those who have made special fragments of the century , or special figures in it , their main study , will recollect , if they glance ...
... taste of the reader will decide whether , in the main , the proportions are correctly de- signed . But those who have made special fragments of the century , or special figures in it , their main study , will recollect , if they glance ...
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... taste . Where my judgment has differed on important questions from that of preceding critics , I have been slow to suppose that I could be right and they wrong . But it was absolutely essential that such an outline of literary history ...
... taste . Where my judgment has differed on important questions from that of preceding critics , I have been slow to suppose that I could be right and they wrong . But it was absolutely essential that such an outline of literary history ...
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... was unchallenged . The precise and regular taste made fashionable by Waller found a special propriety in resuming a vehicle of expression which had h I WALLER 3 been , it would seem , invented 2 CHAP . POETRY AFTER THE RESTORATION.
... was unchallenged . The precise and regular taste made fashionable by Waller found a special propriety in resuming a vehicle of expression which had h I WALLER 3 been , it would seem , invented 2 CHAP . POETRY AFTER THE RESTORATION.
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... taste , to bring his superlative gifts to the task of making that taste or form as classical and splendid as possible . Hence , when , at the age of fifty , he suddenly achieved the highest distinction in a field new to him , the field ...
... taste , to bring his superlative gifts to the task of making that taste or form as classical and splendid as possible . Hence , when , at the age of fifty , he suddenly achieved the highest distinction in a field new to him , the field ...
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... taste the exquisite intellectual pleasure which is offered us by Dryden's wit and sparkling malignity . He returned to the attack a month later in that section of the second Absalom and Achitophel which is certainly his , and which ...
... taste the exquisite intellectual pleasure which is offered us by Dryden's wit and sparkling malignity . He returned to the attack a month later in that section of the second Absalom and Achitophel which is certainly his , and which ...
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Страница 233 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Страница 107 - And taught the doubtful battle how to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Страница 340 - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't • As he comes up the stair, — And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi...
Страница 290 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less: for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation...
Страница 230 - O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee ; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. I need not tell Thee who I am, My misery...
Страница 60 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Страница 17 - In thy felonious heart tho' venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy diff'rent talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
Страница 125 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse Divine; Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal Darkness buries All.
Страница 134 - The god of us verse-men (you know, child), the sun, How after his journeys he sets up his rest; If at morning o'er earth 'tis his fancy to run, At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast.
Страница 229 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.