Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 pages |
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... Dryden transmitted the name of Shirley to the contempt of posterity ; and we have seen Pope and Butler embalming Quarles and Wither for perpetual disgrace . But as the dramatist has risen from the scorn of Dryden , so Quarles and his ...
... Dryden transmitted the name of Shirley to the contempt of posterity ; and we have seen Pope and Butler embalming Quarles and Wither for perpetual disgrace . But as the dramatist has risen from the scorn of Dryden , so Quarles and his ...
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... Dryden a model of poetic excellence , was not likely to appreciate the delicate beauty of a poem addressing itself peculiarly to the imagination ; he could admire the strength of a poet's wing , but cared little for its colours . During ...
... Dryden a model of poetic excellence , was not likely to appreciate the delicate beauty of a poem addressing itself peculiarly to the imagination ; he could admire the strength of a poet's wing , but cared little for its colours . During ...
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... Dryden . His pictures of manners are drawn with a firm and happy pencil ; and the well - known sketch of an old mansion deserted , combines the hard reality of Crabbe with a deeper tone of colouring , and a more affecting pensiveness of ...
... Dryden . His pictures of manners are drawn with a firm and happy pencil ; and the well - known sketch of an old mansion deserted , combines the hard reality of Crabbe with a deeper tone of colouring , and a more affecting pensiveness of ...
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... Dryden , pronounced it one of the greatest , most noble , and most sublime poems , which any age or nation had produced . This enthusiastic tribute was not bestowed until after Milton's death , but that circumstance only testifies more ...
... Dryden , pronounced it one of the greatest , most noble , and most sublime poems , which any age or nation had produced . This enthusiastic tribute was not bestowed until after Milton's death , but that circumstance only testifies more ...
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... perverse yet powerful writer . Dryden he thought a good rhymer , but no poet . His genius was not of an order to excite the sympathy of Milton , and none. * Richardson . * Mr. Mitford . * Apology for Smectymnuus . JOHN MILTON . 57.
... perverse yet powerful writer . Dryden he thought a good rhymer , but no poet . His genius was not of an order to excite the sympathy of Milton , and none. * Richardson . * Mr. Mitford . * Apology for Smectymnuus . JOHN MILTON . 57.
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Page 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Page 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Page 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Page 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Page 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...