The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... kind of History , the fucceffion of facts is not easily difcovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that I have placed fome of Dryden's works in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I ...
... kind of History , the fucceffion of facts is not easily difcovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that I have placed fome of Dryden's works in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I ...
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... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was compofed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his ftudies with ...
... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was compofed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his ftudies with ...
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... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was compofed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his ftudies with ...
... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was compofed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 , he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his ftudies with ...
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... kind the metaphyfical poets have feldom rifen . Their thoughts are often new , but feldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they juft ; and the reader , far from won- dering that he miffed them , won- ders more frequently ...
... kind the metaphyfical poets have feldom rifen . Their thoughts are often new , but feldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they juft ; and the reader , far from won- dering that he miffed them , won- ders more frequently ...
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... 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.
... 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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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