The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1772 |
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Halaman 52
... last : 66 nay , to make his humble comparison " of a wasp more ridiculous , he does " not fay it flies upon the waves as " nimbly as a wafp , or the like , but it " feemed a wasp . But our author at " the writing of this was not in his ...
... last : 66 nay , to make his humble comparison " of a wasp more ridiculous , he does " not fay it flies upon the waves as " nimbly as a wafp , or the like , but it " feemed a wasp . But our author at " the writing of this was not in his ...
Halaman 64
... last he feems to withdraw from the conflict , by transferring the greater part of the blame or merit to his partner . It hap- pened that a contract had been made between them , by which they were to to join in writing a play ; and be ...
... last he feems to withdraw from the conflict , by transferring the greater part of the blame or merit to his partner . It hap- pened that a contract had been made between them , by which they were to to join in writing a play ; and be ...
Halaman 75
... last work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhibited ; and it does not feem to have been ever brought upon the . flage . In the dedication to the mar- quis of Halifax there is a very elegant to tell ...
... last work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhibited ; and it does not feem to have been ever brought upon the . flage . In the dedication to the mar- quis of Halifax there is a very elegant to tell ...
Halaman 97
... last , and feems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his political opinions ; for he afterwards wrote a panegyrick on the virtues of judge Jefferies , and what more could have been done by the ...
... last , and feems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his political opinions ; for he afterwards wrote a panegyrick on the virtues of judge Jefferies , and what more could have been done by the ...
Halaman 106
... last em- " ployment . " Having probably felt his own infe riority in Theological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid his arguments , he might become a more efficacious de- fender of his new ...
... last em- " ployment . " Having probably felt his own infe riority in Theological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid his arguments , he might become a more efficacious de- fender of his new ...
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Halaman 237 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Halaman 212 - To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.
Halaman 181 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Halaman 283 - Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy.
Halaman 140 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Halaman 252 - Proffering the Hind to wait her half the way ; That, since the sky was clear, an hour of talk Might help her to beguile the tedious walk. With much good-will the motion was embrac'd...
Halaman 244 - composition of great excellence in its kind, in which the familiar is very properly diversified with the solemn, and the grave with the humorous ; in which metre has neither weakened the force, nor clouded the perspicuity of...
Halaman 164 - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes.
Halaman 178 - Of him that knows much it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation; by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of knowledge, and a powerful digestion...
Halaman 213 - And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches of the rising sun : And precious sand from Southern climates brought, The fatal regions where the war begun.