Literary Pamphlets Chiefly Relating to Poetry from Sidney to Byron: I. Milton's 'Areopagitica'. II. Addison's 'A discourse on ancient and modern learning'. III. Pope's 'An essay on criticism'. IV. Byron's 'Letter to John Murray on the Rev. W.L. Bowles's strictures on Pope'. V. Wordsworth's 'A letter to a friend of Robert Burns'. VI. Bowles's AppendixErnest Rhys Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1897 |
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Æneid ancient appear AREOPAGITICA Aristotle artificial beautiful Bowles Bowles's Byron character Church Cicero Cowper Critics divine Dr Currie's Dryden Elijah Fenton envy ev'n ev'ry evill express eyes fools genius give hath Homer honour Horace Hounslow Heath human judge judgment kind labour learn'd learning less letters liberty licencing living Lord Byron Lords and Commons manners Milton mind Mnestheus moral Muse nature never noble opinion Ovid pamphlet Parlament passages passions perhaps person Petrarch Petronius Arbiter plain pleas'd Pleasure poem poet Poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise Printed Quintilian Reader reason recollection Religion Robert Burns Roman Rome rules Salisbury Plain satire sense shew ship spirit Stonehenge sublime suppresse taste things thought tion true truth verse vertue Virgil whole wise word wou'd writing writt'n Zoilus
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Página 226 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 157 - Nature, should preside o'er Wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense, Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, - Yet judg'd with coolness, tho' he sung with fire ; His Precepts teach but what his works inspire.
Página 129 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same ; Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear...
Página 84 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 16 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth, and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 141 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página 73 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find...
Página 150 - Tis what the vicious fear, the virtuous shun, By fools 'tis hated, and by knaves undone! If wit so much from ign'rance undergo, Ah let not learning too commence its foe!
Página 126 - And censure freely who have written well. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too?
Página 153 - Tis not enough, your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.