The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deferved his tendernefs . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
... excellence is truth : he that profeffes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deferved his tendernefs . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
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Samuel Johnson. dence and shame by a haughty consci- oufness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon it cer- tainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and ...
Samuel Johnson. dence and shame by a haughty consci- oufness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon it cer- tainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and ...
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... excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftin- 1 guifh , and how to commend the quali- ties of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep weep himself , and diverts ...
... excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftin- 1 guifh , and how to commend the quali- ties of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep weep himself , and diverts ...
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... He was in his own time confidered as of unrivalled excellence . Clarendon reprefents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is faid to have declared , that the three Mil- 144 COWLEY .
... He was in his own time confidered as of unrivalled excellence . Clarendon reprefents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is faid to have declared , that the three Mil- 144 COWLEY .
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... excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he finks willingly down to his general careleff- nefs , and avoids with very little caré either meanness or afperity . His contractions are often rugged and harth : One flings 2 His COWLEY .
... excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he finks willingly down to his general careleff- nefs , and avoids with very little caré either meanness or afperity . His contractions are often rugged and harth : One flings 2 His COWLEY .
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ABRAHAM COWLEY againſt Anacreon anſwer appear becauſe Clarendon compofitions conceits confeffed confidered converfation copacy Cowley Cowley's Cromwel Davideis defcription deferve defign defire delight diſcovered Donne doth Dryden eafily elegance Engliſh expreffion fafe faid fame fatire fays fcarce fecond feems feldom fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould filk fince fion firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies fubject fuch fuffered fufficiently fupply fuppofed furely himſelf Hiſtory houfe king king's known lady laft laſt learning leaſt lefs lines loft lord lord Conway mafter meaſure mifs Milton mind moft moſt muſt nature never numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion parliament perufal Petrarch Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poetical poetry poets praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publiſhed purpoſe racter reafon reft reprefented ſeem Sprat Taffo thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion ufed uſed verfe verſes Waller whofe worfe write
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Page 4 - monly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, Accidentally determined to fome particular direction; The great painter of | the prefent age had the firft fondnefs ; -for his art excited by the perufal of / Richardfon's treatife. • By his mother's felicitation he was Admitted into
Page 3 - from Sprat's account, that he always acknowledged her care, and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude. * In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenfer's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verfe, he became, as he relates,
Page 76 - It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who muft Like th' other foot, obliquely run. Thy firmnefs makes my
Page 96 - between God and the human foul, cannot be poetical. Man admitted to implore the merey of his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeemer, is already in a higher ftate than poetry can confer. The eflence of poetry is invention; fuch invention as, by producing
Page 39 - blows; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you. But, you of learning and religion, And virtue and fuch ingredients, have made A mithridate, whofe operation Keeps off, or cures what can be done or faid. Though the following lines of Donne, on the laft night of the year, havefomething in them too
Page 78 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That fhews more coft than art.. Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear; Rather than all things wit, let none be there. Several lights will not be feen, If there be nothing
Page 111 - narrative, .and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence, as fupprefles curiofity. We go with the hiftorian as he goes, and flop with him when he flops. All amplification is frivolous and vain; all addition to that which is already fufficient for the purpofes of religion,
Page 24 - that were placed near. him, and then went with them out of the church, leaving the reft in folicitude and amazement. They immediately fent guards to proper places, and that night apprehended Tomkyns and Waller; having yet traced nothing but that letters had been intercepted, from which it appeared that the parliament and the
Page 31 - not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who