Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott, 1864 |
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... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He con- sidered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Su- preme ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He con- sidered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Su- preme ...
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... Dryden remarks that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say that all the parts are not equal . In every work one part must be for the sake of others ; a palace must have passages , a poem must have transitions ...
... Dryden remarks that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say that all the parts are not equal . In every work one part must be for the sake of others ; a palace must have passages , a poem must have transitions ...
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... Dryden , who regrets that the heroic measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sen- tence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate and his opi- nions immature . When he wished to ...
... Dryden , who regrets that the heroic measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sen- tence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate and his opi- nions immature . When he wished to ...
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... Dryden is said to have assisted him . The same design , it is well known , was revived by Dr. Swift in the ministry of Oxford ; but it has never since been publicly mentioned , though at that time great expectations were formed by some ...
... Dryden is said to have assisted him . The same design , it is well known , was revived by Dr. Swift in the ministry of Oxford ; but it has never since been publicly mentioned , though at that time great expectations were formed by some ...
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... Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . " His great work is his " Essay on Translated Verse ; " of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his " Miscellanies : " - " It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on ...
... Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . " His great work is his " Essay on Translated Verse ; " of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his " Miscellanies : " - " It was my Lord Roscommon's Essay on ...
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Página 89 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation...
Página 369 - 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.
Página 69 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 152 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others, — the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 388 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 33 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página 361 - English fleet each ship resounds with joy, And loud applause of their great leader's fame : In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy, And, slumbering, smile at the imagin'd flame.
Página 85 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Página 260 - All that pious verse can do is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. The ideas of Christian theology are too simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and figures is to magnify by a concave mirror the sidereal hemisphere.
Página 17 - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader...