The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and try . But the bafis of all excellence is truth : he that ...
... fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and try . But the bafis of all excellence is truth : he that ...
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... fame thing to that purpose . " This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at moft as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged- with ...
... fame thing to that purpose . " This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at moft as an oftentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged- with ...
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... fame time were produced from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and ...
... fame time were produced from the fame univerfity , the two great Poets , Cowley and Milton , of diffimilar genius , of oppofite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and ...
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... fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfick ftile only in his lines upon Hobfon the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- ceffors , E ceffors , having as much fentiment , and more mufick ...
... fame , by improving the harmony of our numbers . Milton tried the metaphyfick ftile only in his lines upon Hobfon the Carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his prede- ceffors , E ceffors , having as much fentiment , and more mufick ...
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... fame that I was then ; No flesh is now the fame ' twas then in mc , And that my mind is chang'd yourself may fee . The fame thoughts to retain ftill , and intents Were more inconftant far ; for accidents Muft of all things moft ...
... fame that I was then ; No flesh is now the fame ' twas then in mc , And that my mind is chang'd yourself may fee . The fame thoughts to retain ftill , and intents Were more inconftant far ; for accidents Muft of all things moft ...
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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