The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, المجلد 2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xx
... Soul , and makes it exprefs Things in the most lofty Stile , and with the greatest Ele- vation . This Expreffion or Language in Poetry ought to have five Qualities ; to be apt , clear , natural , fplendid , and numerous : It must be apt ...
... Soul , and makes it exprefs Things in the most lofty Stile , and with the greatest Ele- vation . This Expreffion or Language in Poetry ought to have five Qualities ; to be apt , clear , natural , fplendid , and numerous : It must be apt ...
الصفحة xxii
... Soul and Life of it , when the Poet has found the Art to make them move by their natural Springs but both thefe are extremely dif- ficult to be defcribid . I sul nid twent has . Of all forts of Poetry , the Epick Poem is the moft noble ...
... Soul and Life of it , when the Poet has found the Art to make them move by their natural Springs but both thefe are extremely dif- ficult to be defcribid . I sul nid twent has . Of all forts of Poetry , the Epick Poem is the moft noble ...
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... Souls of Poetical Numbers ; He was fill'd with Phabean Fire ; and he wrote , be- fides x " * H is Poems ( amiony are Painted in 12mo , 1629 , under this title " Bosworth Field : with a taste of the variety of other poems , left by Sir ...
... Souls of Poetical Numbers ; He was fill'd with Phabean Fire ; and he wrote , be- fides x " * H is Poems ( amiony are Painted in 12mo , 1629 , under this title " Bosworth Field : with a taste of the variety of other poems , left by Sir ...
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... Soul , Was full of Grief , which made him thus condole . Farewel , true Knight , to whom no costly Grave Can give due Honour , would my Tears might fave Thofe Streams of Blood , deferving to be spilt In better Service , had not ...
... Soul , Was full of Grief , which made him thus condole . Farewel , true Knight , to whom no costly Grave Can give due Honour , would my Tears might fave Thofe Streams of Blood , deferving to be spilt In better Service , had not ...
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... Soul . Folio . The Occafion and Design of this celebrated Piece , the Author thus recites in his Preface , " The Tur- " bulence of thefe Times having deprived me of " my wonted Accommodations of Study ; I delibe- " rated , for the ...
... Soul . Folio . The Occafion and Design of this celebrated Piece , the Author thus recites in his Preface , " The Tur- " bulence of thefe Times having deprived me of " my wonted Accommodations of Study ; I delibe- " rated , for the ...
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الصفحة 198 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
الصفحة 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
الصفحة 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
الصفحة 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
الصفحة 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
الصفحة 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
الصفحة 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
الصفحة 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
الصفحة 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
الصفحة 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.