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... whofe pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has ...
... whofe pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has ...
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... whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals un- der the general appellation of a citi- zen ; and , what would probably not have been lefs carefully fuppreffed , the omiffion of his name in the register of St. Dunstan's parifh , gives reason to ...
... whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals un- der the general appellation of a citi- zen ; and , what would probably not have been lefs carefully fuppreffed , the omiffion of his name in the register of St. Dunstan's parifh , gives reason to ...
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... whofe acquain- tance all his contemporaries feem to have been ambitious ; and " Nau- " fragium Joculare ; " a comedy writ- ten in Latin , but without due at- tention to the ancient models ; for it is not loofe verfe , but mere profe ...
... whofe acquain- tance all his contemporaries feem to have been ambitious ; and " Nau- " fragium Joculare ; " a comedy writ- ten in Latin , but without due at- tention to the ancient models ; for it is not loofe verfe , but mere profe ...
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... whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was ex- tended . About the time when Oxford was furrendered to the parliament , he fol- lowed the Queen to Paris , where he be- came fecretary to the lord Jermin , af- terwards terwards earl ...
... whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was ex- tended . About the time when Oxford was furrendered to the parliament , he fol- lowed the Queen to Paris , where he be- came fecretary to the lord Jermin , af- terwards terwards earl ...
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... whofe mind is more on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his reputation than as they fhew him to have been above the affec- tation of unfeasonable elegance , and to have known that tation COWLEY . 15 fometimes in flowers ...
... whofe mind is more on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his reputation than as they fhew him to have been above the affec- tation of unfeasonable elegance , and to have known that tation COWLEY . 15 fometimes in flowers ...
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Página 38 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Página 4 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 59 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
Página 113 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
Página 75 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 32 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
Página 104 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
Página 161 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Página 145 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.