Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 1P.C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammas O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammas O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
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... Italian writers may be dis- covered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , accord- ing to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . He is ...
... Italian writers may be dis- covered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , accord- ing to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . He is ...
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... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature ; and , though he seems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country , staid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the ...
... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature ; and , though he seems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country , staid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the ...
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... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the encomiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not secure against a stern grammarian , turn the balance indisputably in Milton's favour . Of these Italian testimonies ...
... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the encomiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not secure against a stern grammarian , turn the balance indisputably in Milton's favour . Of these Italian testimonies ...
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... Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task troublesome without use . There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronuncia- tion to our own , except ...
... Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task troublesome without use . There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronuncia- tion to our own , except ...
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الصفحة 72 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
الصفحة 298 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
الصفحة 2 - Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
الصفحة 299 - So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky.
الصفحة 28 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam,. It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
الصفحة 122 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.; But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with,, his philosophy.
الصفحة 91 - ... that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction, though he courted his fancy never so much; so that, in all the years he was about this poem, he may be said to have spent half his time therein.
الصفحة 405 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
الصفحة 392 - Every reader of every party, since personal malice is past, and the papers which once inflamed the nation are read only as effusions of wit, must wish for more of the Whig Examiners; for on no occasion was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear.
الصفحة 424 - 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.