The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. WalshC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 стор. |
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... translation , may be very properly confulted as a com- mentary . it The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preferved . The following pret- ty lines are not fuch as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's fon , If ...
... translation , may be very properly confulted as a com- mentary . it The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preferved . The following pret- ty lines are not fuch as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's fon , If ...
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... his elegy on Cowley . His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini , contains a very spritely and judicious charac- ter of a good translator : VOL . I. I " That “ That servile path thou nobly doft decline , " DEN HAM . 113.
... his elegy on Cowley . His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini , contains a very spritely and judicious charac- ter of a good translator : VOL . I. I " That “ That servile path thou nobly doft decline , " DEN HAM . 113.
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... translations and tranflators too . " They but preserve the ashes , thou the flame , " True to his fenfe , but truer to his fame . " The excellence of these lines is greater , as the truth which they contain was not at that time ...
... translations and tranflators too . " They but preserve the ashes , thou the flame , " True to his fenfe , but truer to his fame . " The excellence of these lines is greater , as the truth which they contain was not at that time ...
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... translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abftract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the fense of the precepts , will find no other di- rection than that the author fhould ...
... translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abftract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the fense of the precepts , will find no other di- rection than that the author fhould ...
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... the Dies Ira are well translated ; though the best line in the Dies Ira is bor- rowed from Dryden . In return , fucceeding poets have borrowed from Rofcommon . In the verses on the Lap - dog , the In ROSCOM MO N. 329.
... the Dies Ira are well translated ; though the best line in the Dies Ira is bor- rowed from Dryden . In return , fucceeding poets have borrowed from Rofcommon . In the verses on the Lap - dog , the In ROSCOM MO N. 329.
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Сторінка 255 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Сторінка 32 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.
Сторінка 215 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Сторінка 27 - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account.
Сторінка 246 - Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell or accompany the choirs of heaven.
Сторінка 224 - In this Poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Сторінка 40 - On a round ball A workman, that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all. So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world, by that impression grow, Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world, by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so.
Сторінка 31 - Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Сторінка 40 - Though God be our true glass, through which we see All, since the being of all things is He, Yet are the trunks, which do to us derive Things, in proportion fit, by perspective Deeds of good men ; for by their living here, Virtues, indeed remote, seem to be near.
Сторінка 266 - ... and preserved by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank verse, said an ingenious critic, seems to be verse only to the eye.