The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... paffage , however , feems not un- worthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : . " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , " is " the only thing now in which we are " vitally concerned ; I am one of the " laft ...
... paffage , however , feems not un- worthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : . " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , " is " the only thing now in which we are " vitally concerned ; I am one of the " laft ...
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... human faculties , Reason has its proper task affigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English is 96 COWLEY .
... human faculties , Reason has its proper task affigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English is 96 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imi tator . The holy Book like the eighth fphere does fhine With ...
Samuel Johnson. is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imi tator . The holy Book like the eighth fphere does fhine With ...
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... the growth of fatal gold does fee , Gold , which alone more influence has than he . In one paffage he ftarts a fudden queftion , to the confufion of philofo- phy : Ye learned heads , whom ivy garlands grace , Why K 3 Ye COWL E Y. 133.
... the growth of fatal gold does fee , Gold , which alone more influence has than he . In one paffage he ftarts a fudden queftion , to the confufion of philofo- phy : Ye learned heads , whom ivy garlands grace , Why K 3 Ye COWL E Y. 133.
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... paffages that can be properly compared , I remember only the defcription of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is fufficiently difcernible . Cowley's is fcarcely description , unless it be poffible to describe by ...
... paffages that can be properly compared , I remember only the defcription of Heaven , in which the different manner of the two writers is fufficiently difcernible . Cowley's is fcarcely description , unless it be poffible to describe by ...
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Halaman 4 - monly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, Accidentally determined to fome particular direction; The great painter of | the prefent age had the firft fondnefs ; -for his art excited by the perufal of / Richardfon's treatife. • By his mother's felicitation he was Admitted into
Halaman 3 - from Sprat's account, that he always acknowledged her care, and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude. * In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenfer's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verfe, he became, as he relates,
Halaman 76 - It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmnefs makes my
Halaman 96 - between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the merey of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention; fuch invention as, by producing
Halaman 39 - blows; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you. But, you of learning and religion, And virtue and fuch ingredients, have made A mithridate, whofe operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or faid. Though the following lines of Donne, on the laft night of the year, havefomething in them too
Halaman 78 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That fhews more coft than art.. Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be feen, If there be nothing
Halaman 111 - narrative, .and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence, as fupprefles curiofity. We go with the hiftorian as he goes, and flop with him when he flops. All amplification is frivolous and vain; all addition to that which is already fufficient for the purpofes of religion,
Halaman 24 - that were placed near. him, and then went with them out of the church, leaving the reft in folicitude and amazement. They immediately fent guards to proper places, and that night apprehended Tomkyns and Waller; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted, from which it appeared that the parliament and the
Halaman 31 - not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who