Among My Books: First [-second] series, Том 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1898 - 380 стор. |
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... sentiment . In the passage from Sylvester , it is pre- cisely the reverse , and the wig takes as much from the sentiment as it adds to a Lord Chancellor . So Pope's proverbial verse , " True wit is Nature to advantage drest ...
... sentiment . In the passage from Sylvester , it is pre- cisely the reverse , and the wig takes as much from the sentiment as it adds to a Lord Chancellor . So Pope's proverbial verse , " True wit is Nature to advantage drest ...
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... sentiment which befitted Will's Coffee - house and the Bird - cage Walk , was a damage to his poetry . Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character . He cannot always distinguish between enthusiasm ...
... sentiment which befitted Will's Coffee - house and the Bird - cage Walk , was a damage to his poetry . Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character . He cannot always distinguish between enthusiasm ...
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... sentiment faible which Voltaire condemns in Corneille , a temptation to which Dryden always lay too invitingly open . But there are passages higher in kind than any I have cited , because they show imagination . Such are the verses in ...
... sentiment faible which Voltaire condemns in Corneille , a temptation to which Dryden always lay too invitingly open . But there are passages higher in kind than any I have cited , because they show imagination . Such are the verses in ...
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... sentiment le plus tendre , tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers . " After Dryden had broken away from the heroic style , he speaks out more plainly . In the Preface to his " All for Love , " in reply to some cavils upon " little , and not ...
... sentiment le plus tendre , tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers . " After Dryden had broken away from the heroic style , he speaks out more plainly . In the Preface to his " All for Love , " in reply to some cavils upon " little , and not ...
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... sentiment . He should have known that certain things can never be transplanted , and that among these is a style of poetry whose great excellence was that it was in perfect sympathy with the genius of the people among whom it came into ...
... sentiment . He should have known that certain things can never be transplanted , and that among these is a style of poetry whose great excellence was that it was in perfect sympathy with the genius of the people among whom it came into ...
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Сторінка 340 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Сторінка 361 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Сторінка 238 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Сторінка 185 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 322 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons. Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Сторінка 13 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, ' We shall be blest With some new joys,
Сторінка 163 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious...
Сторінка 4 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
Сторінка 238 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Сторінка 262 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...