Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, المجلد 1J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the cha- racter , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes B writes with fo little detail , that scarce- ly any [ 1 ] COWLEY. ...
... ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the cha- racter , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes B writes with fo little detail , that scarce- ly any [ 1 ] COWLEY. ...
الصفحة 13
... produced actions of heroism , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reafonable to appear the 66 champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his mafter Pindar to call ...
... produced actions of heroism , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reafonable to appear the 66 champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his mafter Pindar to call ...
الصفحة 25
... 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 May's poem ...
... 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 May's poem ...
الصفحة 27
... produced it to the public under the title of the " Cutter of Cole- " man - street . " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was after- wards cenfured as a fatire on the king's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat ...
... produced it to the public under the title of the " Cutter of Cole- " man - street . " It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was after- wards cenfured as a fatire on the king's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat ...
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... produced by aggregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions , and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteness . It is with great propriety that ...
... produced by aggregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions , and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteness . It is with great propriety that ...
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الصفحة 38 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
الصفحة 4 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
الصفحة 59 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
الصفحة 113 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
الصفحة 75 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
الصفحة 32 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
الصفحة 104 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
الصفحة 161 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
الصفحة 145 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.