A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).Macmillan and Company, 1889 - 415 страници |
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... English poetry seems very small to us now , the relief from irregularity and licence was eagerly welcomed . The most obvious phenomenon connected with the change in poetry was the gradual substitution , in non- dramatic verse , for the ...
... English poetry seems very small to us now , the relief from irregularity and licence was eagerly welcomed . The most obvious phenomenon connected with the change in poetry was the gradual substitution , in non- dramatic verse , for the ...
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... English literature between Milton and Wordsworth , was John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) . In comparison with this stately figure , those pre- cursors of the classical school whom we have just mentioned pass into insignificance . Even Waller ...
... English literature between Milton and Wordsworth , was John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) . In comparison with this stately figure , those pre- cursors of the classical school whom we have just mentioned pass into insignificance . Even Waller ...
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... English dramatists , and remind us rather , in their grace and courtly turns of thought , of the kind of poetry introduced into France by Voiture and his friends . These fourteen years of Dryden's exclusive attachment to drama mark a ...
... English dramatists , and remind us rather , in their grace and courtly turns of thought , of the kind of poetry introduced into France by Voiture and his friends . These fourteen years of Dryden's exclusive attachment to drama mark a ...
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... English feeling hitherto , it rather bears in the direction of Hobbism , or a mild , indifferent scepticism . The fierce conflict now raging between three acrimonious parties - the Catholics , the Anglicans , and the Dissenters - drove ...
... English feeling hitherto , it rather bears in the direction of Hobbism , or a mild , indifferent scepticism . The fierce conflict now raging between three acrimonious parties - the Catholics , the Anglicans , and the Dissenters - drove ...
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... English poetry , has ever been produced . Dryden's next act was the composition , late in 1697 , of the famous second song for St. Cecilia's Day , known as Alexander's Feast . The final years of his active and arduous life were occu ...
... English poetry , has ever been produced . Dryden's next act was the composition , late in 1697 , of the famous second song for St. Cecilia's Day , known as Alexander's Feast . The final years of his active and arduous life were occu ...
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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 125 - Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal Darkness buries All.
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.
Страница 290 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Страница 294 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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 121 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
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 231 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome— at an inn.
Страница 322 - Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.