The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... - pected and surprifing , they had no re- gard to that uniformity of fentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleafure of other other minds they never enquired what , on any occafion COWLEY . 43.
... - pected and surprifing , they had no re- gard to that uniformity of fentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleafure of other other minds they never enquired what , on any occafion COWLEY . 43.
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... works which have more propriety , though lefs copioufnefs of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by by the example of Donne , a man of very 48 CO W LE Y.
... works which have more propriety , though lefs copioufnefs of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by by the example of Donne , a man of very 48 CO W LE Y.
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... fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators , than time has left behind ... fentiment , and more mufick COWLEY . 49.
... fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators , than time has left behind ... fentiment , and more mufick COWLEY . 49.
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Samuel Johnson. ceffors , having as much fentiment , and more mufick . Suckling neither im- proved verfification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable stile remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton ...
Samuel Johnson. ceffors , having as much fentiment , and more mufick . Suckling neither im- proved verfification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable stile remained chiefly with Cowley ; Suckling could not reach it , and Milton ...
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... fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine par- ticularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the laft of that race , and un- doubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort compofitions ...
... fentiments of the metaphyfical poets , it is now proper to examine par- ticularly the works of Cowley , who was almost the laft of that race , and un- doubtedly the best . His Mifcellanies contain a collection of fhort compofitions ...
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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