The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Том 3C. Buzby and B. Warner, 1819 |
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... remarked , that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his " Highness's dog . " His admiration of the great seems to have increased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and states- men to inscribe ...
... remarked , that he began a little to relax his dignity when he wrote a distich for his " Highness's dog . " His admiration of the great seems to have increased in the advance of life . He passed over peers and states- men to inscribe ...
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... remarked that both end with the same fault ; the comparison of each is literal on one side , and metaphorical on the other . Poets do not always express their own thoughts ; Pope , with all this labour in the praise of music , was ...
... remarked that both end with the same fault ; the comparison of each is literal on one side , and metaphorical on the other . Poets do not always express their own thoughts ; Pope , with all this labour in the praise of music , was ...
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... remarked that the preternatural agents are very happily adapted to the purposes of the poem . The heathen deities can no longer gain attention ; we should have turned away from a contest between Venus and Diana . The employment of ...
... remarked that the preternatural agents are very happily adapted to the purposes of the poem . The heathen deities can no longer gain attention ; we should have turned away from a contest between Venus and Diana . The employment of ...
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... remarked by Dennis likewise , that the machi- nery is superfluous ; that , by all the bustle of preter- natural operation , the main event is neither hastened nor retarded . To this charge an efficacious answer is not easily made . The ...
... remarked by Dennis likewise , that the machi- nery is superfluous ; that , by all the bustle of preter- natural operation , the main event is neither hastened nor retarded . To this charge an efficacious answer is not easily made . The ...
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... remarked by Savage , that the second was in the whole more strongly conceived , and more equally supported , but that it had no single pas- sages equal to the contention in the first for the digni- ty of vice and the celebration of the ...
... remarked by Savage , that the second was in the whole more strongly conceived , and more equally supported , but that it had no single pas- sages equal to the contention in the first for the digni- ty of vice and the celebration of the ...
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Страница 85 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Страница 216 - wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
Страница 195 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Страница 164 - 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 labors, and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
Страница 216 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking-, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation.
Страница 94 - 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 155 - 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 342 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Страница 164 - Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
Страница 85 - ... rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait...