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... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the ... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ...
... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the ... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ...
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... write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ...
... write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor assume the dignity of a writer , by descriptions copied from descriptions , by imitations borrowed from imitations , by ...
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... write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing inore than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the ...
... write to be admired . The Anacreontiques therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing inore than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the ...
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... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts ...
... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts ...
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... writer professing to revive the mallest and highest writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain fruitless love i mean ; for , gentle year ...
... writer professing to revive the mallest and highest writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain fruitless love i mean ; for , gentle year ...
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Страница 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Страница 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Страница 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Страница 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Страница 218 - 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.
Страница 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Страница 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Страница 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Страница 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Страница 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...