The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 11804 |
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... mind ; what we knew before , we cannot learn ; what is not unexpected , cannot surprise . Of the ideas suggested by these awful scenes , from some we ... mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , content with mind 88 MILTON .
... mind ; what we knew before , we cannot learn ; what is not unexpected , cannot surprise . Of the ideas suggested by these awful scenes , from some we ... mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , content with mind 88 MILTON .
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... mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has under- taken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will ...
... mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has under- taken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself . Whoever considers the few radical positions which the Scriptures afforded him , will ...
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... mind . The death of Cromwell was the first publick event which called forth Dryden's poetical powers . His heroick stanzas have beauties and defects ; the thoughts are vigorous , and , though not always proper , shew a mind re- plete ...
... mind . The death of Cromwell was the first publick event which called forth Dryden's poetical powers . His heroick stanzas have beauties and defects ; the thoughts are vigorous , and , though not always proper , shew a mind re- plete ...
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... mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge , His compositions are the effects of a vigorous genius operating upon large materials . The power that predominated in his intellectual operations , was ...
... mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge , His compositions are the effects of a vigorous genius operating upon large materials . The power that predominated in his intellectual operations , was ...
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... mind , which naturally loves truth , is always most offended with the violation of these truths of which we are most certain ; and we of course conceive those facts most certain , which approach nearest to our own time . Out of this ...
... mind , which naturally loves truth , is always most offended with the violation of these truths of which we are most certain ; and we of course conceive those facts most certain , which approach nearest to our own time . Out of this ...
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Page 562 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 44 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 55 - 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.
Page 673 - I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, "Yet even these bones...
Page 204 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.
Page 12 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Page 557 - His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication, was not strictly true. His parental attention never abandoned them ; what he found amiss in the first edition, he silently corrected in those that followed. He appears to have revised the 'Iliad...
Page 5 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain: And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace: Nor let him then enjoy supreme command ; But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand!
Page 636 - Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 522 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.