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... whole translation is also his . Dr. Mayne died 6th of December , 1672 ; and his remains were deposited on the north side of the choir in Christchurch . SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT . ( 1605-1668 . ) The father of this poet was John Davenant ...
... whole translation is also his . Dr. Mayne died 6th of December , 1672 ; and his remains were deposited on the north side of the choir in Christchurch . SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT . ( 1605-1668 . ) The father of this poet was John Davenant ...
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... whole course of the civil war ; was in attendance on the king when the court resided at Oxford ; was created doctor of civil laws 1642 ; and upon the ruin of the king's affairs , suffered for his attachment to him , and compounded with ...
... whole course of the civil war ; was in attendance on the king when the court resided at Oxford ; was created doctor of civil laws 1642 ; and upon the ruin of the king's affairs , suffered for his attachment to him , and compounded with ...
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... whole national interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your abilities . To your virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way : except some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours ; who ...
... whole national interest fell into your hands , and subsists only in your abilities . To your virtue , overpowering and resistless , every man gives way : except some who , without equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours ; who ...
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... whole nights , but not a verse could he make ; and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with an impetus or oestrus , and his daughter was immediately called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps ...
... whole nights , but not a verse could he make ; and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with an impetus or oestrus , and his daughter was immediately called to secure what came . At other times he would dictate perhaps ...
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... whole remaining part of his life . He pursued his studies or his amusements without persecution , molestation , or insult . Such is the reverence paid to great abilities , however misused : they who contemplated in Milton the scholar ...
... whole remaining part of his life . He pursued his studies or his amusements without persecution , molestation , or insult . Such is the reverence paid to great abilities , however misused : they who contemplated in Milton the scholar ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admired afterwards ANDREW MARVELL appears beauties Ben Jonson better called censure character Charles Charles Dryden church College comedy court Cowley criticism Davenant death delight diction died dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English Essay excellence fancy father favour genius heroic honour Hudibras imitation John Dryden Johnson kind king labour lady language Latin learning lines lived London Lord Lord Roscommon Matthew Prior Milton mind nature never numbers observed occasion opinion Otway Oxford Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps pieces Pindaric play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface produced prose published queen reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme Richard Brome satire says seems sentiments sometimes Sprat supposed thing thou thought tion Tom D'Urfey tragedy tragi-comedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Westminster Westminster Abbey Westminster School words write written wrote
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Página 85 - 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 21 - 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.
Página 141 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 110 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 195 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Página 89 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Página 34 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Página 205 - 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 19 - 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 boardingschool 3.
Página 100 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.