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... means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of cha- racters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolu- tion to tell his ...
... means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of cha- racters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolu- tion to tell his ...
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... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
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... mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things re ...
... mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things re ...
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... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shown : For , though I have ...
... mean ; for , gentle year , Although I fear There's of this caution little need , Yet , gentle year , take heed How thou dost make Such a mistake ; Such love I mean alone As by thy cruel predecessors has been shown : For , though I have ...
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... mean in the mate- rials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be considered ; a poem which ...
... mean in the mate- rials . Yet surely those verses are not without a just claim to praise ; of which it may be said with truth , that no man but Cowley could have written them . The Davideis now remains to be considered ; a poem which ...
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Página 173 - The want* of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert / our master, and seek for companions.
Página 417 - 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 2 - ... he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 173 - This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body.
Página 63 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 97 - ... wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 395 - There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves...
Página 418 - As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last...
Página 436 - 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 408 - These fight like husbands, but like lovers those : These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy...