EssaysMacmillan, 1895 - 218 sidor |
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... Lord Protector ; " which was generally admitted to be the best poem written on the subject , though Waller himself was among his rivals . But he soon found out that he had been mistaken in his anticipations . Charles II . recovered his ...
... Lord Protector ; " which was generally admitted to be the best poem written on the subject , though Waller himself was among his rivals . But he soon found out that he had been mistaken in his anticipations . Charles II . recovered his ...
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... Lord Shaftesbury , who had been one of the most subtle and zealous supporters of the accusa- tions brought against them , availed himself of the general dislike with which the Duke of York was regarded to weave a fresh plot , the object ...
... Lord Shaftesbury , who had been one of the most subtle and zealous supporters of the accusa- tions brought against them , availed himself of the general dislike with which the Duke of York was regarded to weave a fresh plot , the object ...
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... LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD , KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER , ETC. MY LORD , THE wishes and desires of all good men , which have attended your Lordship from your first appear- ance in the world , are at ...
... LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD , KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER , ETC. MY LORD , THE wishes and desires of all good men , which have attended your Lordship from your first appear- ance in the world , are at ...
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John Dryden. This , my tunity of relieving some unhappy man . Lord , has justly acquired you as many friends as there are persons who have the honour to be known to you : mere acquaintance you have none ; you have drawn them all into a ...
John Dryden. This , my tunity of relieving some unhappy man . Lord , has justly acquired you as many friends as there are persons who have the honour to be known to you : mere acquaintance you have none ; you have drawn them all into a ...
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... Lord , would be content to allow you a seventh day for rest ; or , if you thought that hard upon you , we would not refuse you half your time : if you come out , like some great monarch , to take a town but once a year , as it were for ...
... Lord , would be content to allow you a seventh day for rest ; or , if you thought that hard upon you , we would not refuse you half your time : if you come out , like some great monarch , to take a town but once a year , as it were for ...
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Sida 169 - From thence to honour thee I would not seek For names ; but call forth thundering ^Eschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To live again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Sida 78 - ... there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging ; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to her husband.
Sida 189 - 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sida viii - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into 30 its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay
Sida 95 - But this hint, thus seasonably given me, first made me sensible of my own wants, and brought me afterwards to seek for the supply of them in other English authors. I looked over the darling of my youth, the famous Cowley...
Sida 105 - Tis one thing to draw the outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable ; and another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the shadowings, and, chiefly, by the spirit which animates the whole.
Sida 18 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, (to which my genius never much inclined me,) for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged...
Sida 156 - Friar, an fond as otherwise I am of it, from this imputation; for though the comical parts are diverting, and the .serious moving, yet they are of an unnatural mingle: for mirth and gravity destroy each other, and are no more to be allowed for decent, than a gay widow laughing in a mourning habit.
Sida xvii - There is more of salt in all your verses than I have seen in any of the moderns or even of the ancients; but you have been sparing of the gall, by which means you have pleased all readers, and offended none.
Sida 108 - ... that verse commonly which they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them to keep the peace.