Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sidor |
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... poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and famil- iar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an in ...
... poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry observation on human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and famil- iar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an in ...
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... poetical genius . " And though reclaim'd by modern lights From an erroneous taste , I cannot but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools . " Donne , who was considerably before Cowley , is without hs fancy , but ...
... poetical genius . " And though reclaim'd by modern lights From an erroneous taste , I cannot but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools . " Donne , who was considerably before Cowley , is without hs fancy , but ...
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... poetical privileges more sparingly . " To the pure all things are pure , " is a maxim which a man like Dr. Donne may be justified in applying to himself ; but he might have recollected that it could not be construed to extend to the ...
... poetical privileges more sparingly . " To the pure all things are pure , " is a maxim which a man like Dr. Donne may be justified in applying to himself ; but he might have recollected that it could not be construed to extend to the ...
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... poetical language by some other obvious and palpable image , exhibiting the same kind or degree of excellence in other things , as when Gray compares him to the Theban eagle , " Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of ...
... poetical language by some other obvious and palpable image , exhibiting the same kind or degree of excellence in other things , as when Gray compares him to the Theban eagle , " Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of ...
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... poetical fancy , and an eye for natural beauty ; but these are kept under or soon discarded , judiciously enough , but it should seem , not for lack of power , for they are certainly as masterly as they are rare . Such is the burlesque ...
... poetical fancy , and an eye for natural beauty ; but these are kept under or soon discarded , judiciously enough , but it should seem , not for lack of power , for they are certainly as masterly as they are rare . Such is the burlesque ...
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Sida 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Sida 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Sida 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Sida 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Sida 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Sida 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Sida 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Sida 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Sida 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Sida 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.