The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 9 |
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All men , even those of a different interest , and contrary principles , must praise
this action , as the most eminent for piety , not only in this degenerate age , but
almost in any of the former ; when men were made “ de meliore luto ; " when ...
All men , even those of a different interest , and contrary principles , must praise
this action , as the most eminent for piety , not only in this degenerate age , but
almost in any of the former ; when men were made “ de meliore luto ; " when ...
Sivu 165
Of his life little is known ; and that little claims no praise but what can be given to
intellectual excellence , seldom employed to any virtuous purpose , His character
, as given by Mr. Oldisworth with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by ...
Of his life little is known ; and that little claims no praise but what can be given to
intellectual excellence , seldom employed to any virtuous purpose , His character
, as given by Mr. Oldisworth with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by ...
Sivu 208
O DE IN PRAISE composed by MR. CHARLEs KING. In Five Parts. For the
degree of batchelor of music; performed at the Theatre in Oxford, on Friday the
eleventh of July, 1707. OF MUSIC. Music, soft charm of Heaven and Earth,
Whence didst ...
O DE IN PRAISE composed by MR. CHARLEs KING. In Five Parts. For the
degree of batchelor of music; performed at the Theatre in Oxford, on Friday the
eleventh of July, 1707. OF MUSIC. Music, soft charm of Heaven and Earth,
Whence didst ...
Sivu 310
This is a work not ill performed; but perhaps rewarded with at least its full
proportion of praise. In 1668, he published Cowley's Latin poems, and prefixed in
Latin the life of the author; which he afterwards amplified, and placed before
Cowley's ...
This is a work not ill performed; but perhaps rewarded with at least its full
proportion of praise. In 1668, he published Cowley's Latin poems, and prefixed in
Latin the life of the author; which he afterwards amplified, and placed before
Cowley's ...
Sivu 333
Addison began to praise him early , and was followed or accompanied by other
poets ; perhaps by almost all , except Swift and Pope , who forebore to flatter him
in his life , and after his death spoke of him , Swift with slight censure , and Pope ...
Addison began to praise him early , and was followed or accompanied by other
poets ; perhaps by almost all , except Swift and Pope , who forebore to flatter him
in his life , and after his death spoke of him , Swift with slight censure , and Pope ...
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Yhtään arvostelua ei löytynyt.
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
appear arms bear beauty better blood breast bright bring cause charms command court death desire Earth equal eyes face fair fall fame fate father fear field fight fire flame force give gods grace ground hand happy head hear heart Heaven honour hope kind king late laws leave less light lines live look lord lost maid mind move Nature never night o'er once pain peace plain pleasure poet praise present rage rest rise sacred seen shade shine side sight sing soft song soon soul sound stand stood sweet tears tell thee Theseus thine things thou thought took turn verse virtue voice winds wish wound youth
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Sivu 491 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Sivu 13 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Sivu 13 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace.
Sivu 14 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Sivu 176 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Sivu 528 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Sivu 9 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Sivu 160 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, ' To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of Fate, are mine.
Sivu 13 - ... the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Sivu 342 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
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| Otsikko | The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Nide 9 Microbook library of English literature The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Alexander Chalmers |
| Toimittaja | Alexander Chalmers |
| Kustantaja | J. Johnson, 1810 |
| Alkuperäisteoksen sijainti | New York Public Library |
| Digitoitu | 5. lokakuu 2006 |
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