The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 1C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, and J. Bowen., 1783 |
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الصفحة 95
... friends . The man who has his God , no aid can lack ; And we who bid him go , will bring him back . Yet amidst his negligence he fometimes at- tempted an improved and scientifick versifica- tion ; of which it will be beft to give his ...
... friends . The man who has his God , no aid can lack ; And we who bid him go , will bring him back . Yet amidst his negligence he fometimes at- tempted an improved and scientifick versifica- tion ; of which it will be beft to give his ...
الصفحة 104
... friends , He was yet engaged in a greater under taking . In April 1648 , he conveyed James the duke of York from London into France , and delivered him there to the Queen and prince of Wales . This year he published his tranflation of ...
... friends , He was yet engaged in a greater under taking . In April 1648 , he conveyed James the duke of York from London into France , and delivered him there to the Queen and prince of Wales . This year he published his tranflation of ...
الصفحة 116
... friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , " Nor confecrated mitre , from the same " Ill fate could fave ; my country's funeral " flame " And Troy's cold afhes I atteft , and call " To witness for myself , that in their fall " No foes ...
... friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , " Nor confecrated mitre , from the same " Ill fate could fave ; my country's funeral " flame " And Troy's cold afhes I atteft , and call " To witness for myself , that in their fall " No foes ...
الصفحة 134
... friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to fuppofe of great merit , fince he was thought by Milton worthy of a poem , intituled , Epitaphium Damonis , written with the common but childish imitation of pastoral life . He now ...
... friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to fuppofe of great merit , fince he was thought by Milton worthy of a poem , intituled , Epitaphium Damonis , written with the common but childish imitation of pastoral life . He now ...
الصفحة 144
... friends , poffibly by her own " defire , made earnest suit to have her com- pany the remaining part of the fummer ; " which was granted , upon a promife of her 66. return at Michaelmas . ” 66 I At Milton was too busy to much miss his ...
... friends , poffibly by her own " defire , made earnest suit to have her com- pany the remaining part of the fummer ; " which was granted , upon a promife of her 66. return at Michaelmas . ” 66 I At Milton was too busy to much miss his ...
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الصفحة 109 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
الصفحة 52 - 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 246 - Lost' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
الصفحة 29 - Their attempts were always analytick: they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of...
الصفحة 251 - The confusion of spirit and matter, which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven, fills it with incongruity; and the book in which it is related is, I believe, the favourite of children, and gradually neglected as knowledge is increased.
الصفحة 82 - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
الصفحة 249 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
الصفحة 28 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration.
الصفحة 28 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
الصفحة 256 - Regained has been too much depreciated, Samson Agonistes has in requital been too much admired. It could only be by long prejudice, and the bigotry of learning, that Milton could prefer the ancient tragedies, with their encumbrance of a chorus, to the exhibitions of the French and English stages...