Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 стор. |
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... dunce . Now he finds the object of his satire in the way . The fact is , that Dryden's poem and Pope's were both moved in this way . They grew out of personal quarrels . Are they on that account to be blamed ? Not if the dunces , by ...
... dunce . Now he finds the object of his satire in the way . The fact is , that Dryden's poem and Pope's were both moved in this way . They grew out of personal quarrels . Are they on that account to be blamed ? Not if the dunces , by ...
Сторінка 272
... Dunces , as the son or Dunce the most nearly resembling himself - hence the name of the poem -and appoints him his successor . That is the whole plan . The verse flows unstinted from the full urn of Dryden . The perfect ease , and the ...
... Dunces , as the son or Dunce the most nearly resembling himself - hence the name of the poem -and appoints him his successor . That is the whole plan . The verse flows unstinted from the full urn of Dryden . The perfect ease , and the ...
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... Dunces , each yielding to the attraction of his genius , fluttering his pinions with an exquisite grace , and all , without labour or purpose , arriving at the goal predestined by nature and fate . We know of no good reason why , for ...
... Dunces , each yielding to the attraction of his genius , fluttering his pinions with an exquisite grace , and all , without labour or purpose , arriving at the goal predestined by nature and fate . We know of no good reason why , for ...
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... dunces are comprehended - the . composition is elaborate - the mock - heroic , admirable in Dryden , is carried to perfection , and we have , sui generis , a regular epic poem . In the year 1727 , amongst the works first given to the ...
... dunces are comprehended - the . composition is elaborate - the mock - heroic , admirable in Dryden , is carried to perfection , and we have , sui generis , a regular epic poem . In the year 1727 , amongst the works first given to the ...
Сторінка 277
... Dunces had been maligning him all their days , long before the treatise on the Profund . And that is bad law , indeed , that recognizes a natural right in blockheads to be blackguards , and gives unlimited license of brutality towards ...
... Dunces had been maligning him all their days , long before the treatise on the Profund . And that is bad law , indeed , that recognizes a natural right in blockheads to be blackguards , and gives unlimited license of brutality towards ...
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Сторінка 299 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Сторінка 99 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Сторінка 57 - You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Сторінка 57 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Сторінка 102 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Сторінка 189 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Сторінка 267 - So spake the Son : but Satan, with his Powers, Far was advanced on winged speed : an host Innumerable as the stars of night; Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Сторінка 101 - Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Сторінка 70 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Сторінка 37 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.