The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 страници |
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... observe that while the inspiration is less , the technical skill is greater . There are passages in Addison which no seven- teenth century author could have written ; there are couplets in Pope beyond the reach of Cowley , and that even ...
... observe that while the inspiration is less , the technical skill is greater . There are passages in Addison which no seven- teenth century author could have written ; there are couplets in Pope beyond the reach of Cowley , and that even ...
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... observes , that while Pope is the finest , Boileau is the dullest craftsman of their age and school . ' 1 6 With the author of the Lutrin Addison , unlike Pope , was ' M. Sainte - Beuve , the greatest of French critics , frankly ...
... observes , that while Pope is the finest , Boileau is the dullest craftsman of their age and school . ' 1 6 With the author of the Lutrin Addison , unlike Pope , was ' M. Sainte - Beuve , the greatest of French critics , frankly ...
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... observe that the last noteworthy act of patronage in the century was one that did honour to the patron without lessening the dignity and independence of the recipient . Literature owes much to the noblest of political philoso- phers for ...
... observe that the last noteworthy act of patronage in the century was one that did honour to the patron without lessening the dignity and independence of the recipient . Literature owes much to the noblest of political philoso- phers for ...
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... observes , was altogether incapable of appreciating as an element of political calcu- lation the force which moral sentiments exercise upon mankind . " 1 The enthusiasm and strong passions of the first half of the seventeenth century ...
... observes , was altogether incapable of appreciating as an element of political calcu- lation the force which moral sentiments exercise upon mankind . " 1 The enthusiasm and strong passions of the first half of the seventeenth century ...
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... the clutches of their reverend captors had to pay heavily for the illegal ceremony . Ladies were trepanned into matrimony , and Smollett in his History observes , that the Fleet parsons encouraged every kind of INTRODUCTION . 11.
... the clutches of their reverend captors had to pay heavily for the illegal ceremony . Ladies were trepanned into matrimony , and Smollett in his History observes , that the Fleet parsons encouraged every kind of INTRODUCTION . 11.
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Страница 99 - 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 92 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Страница 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Страница 128 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Страница 196 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Страница 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Страница 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Страница 26 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Страница 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Страница 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.