Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 sidor |
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... poet's fancy has carried away his judgment . It appears that he commen- ced a critic on Denham , Pope , and Thomson , in his correfpondence with his friends Cockfield and Turner , in the year 1756 , and 1761 . It has been fhewn , that ...
... poet's fancy has carried away his judgment . It appears that he commen- ced a critic on Denham , Pope , and Thomson , in his correfpondence with his friends Cockfield and Turner , in the year 1756 , and 1761 . It has been fhewn , that ...
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... no banks appear ; No lake fo gentle , and no spring so clear . Not Po fofwells the fabling Poet's lay , While led along the skies his current strays , As As thine which vifits Windfor's fam'd abodes , To grace 82 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
... no banks appear ; No lake fo gentle , and no spring so clear . Not Po fofwells the fabling Poet's lay , While led along the skies his current strays , As As thine which vifits Windfor's fam'd abodes , To grace 82 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
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... poet's lays , is at best puerile . The expreffion here is also too general ; we are left to guess whofe lays are ... Poet meant DENHAM'S . The The adjective great , applied to any parti- cular perfon 84 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
... poet's lays , is at best puerile . The expreffion here is also too general ; we are left to guess whofe lays are ... Poet meant DENHAM'S . The The adjective great , applied to any parti- cular perfon 84 CRITICAL ESSAYS .
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... Poet's specification of the places paf- fed through , is very forcible , and the epithets bestowed on those places are strongly discriminative of their peculia- rities ; the woody bounds of Gallia , the cloud - piercing Alps , the viney ...
... Poet's specification of the places paf- fed through , is very forcible , and the epithets bestowed on those places are strongly discriminative of their peculia- rities ; the woody bounds of Gallia , the cloud - piercing Alps , the viney ...
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... Poet's defcription , that importance has fuffered no diminution . In the hands of a common writer , they would have been made ridiculous , either with bombaft or meanness : V. 60. Nor thefe the nether works ; all thefe beneath , And all ...
... Poet's defcription , that importance has fuffered no diminution . In the hands of a common writer , they would have been made ridiculous , either with bombaft or meanness : V. 60. Nor thefe the nether works ; all thefe beneath , And all ...
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Sida 149 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Sida 38 - And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose...
Sida 192 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Sida 156 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Sida 245 - When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Sida 214 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Sida 218 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Sida 100 - Be full, ye courts ; be great who will ; Search for peace with all your skill ; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor ; In vain...
Sida 229 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Sida 161 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th