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... means a complete history of the literature of the last century : many important authors , like Prior and Smollett , have but a word given them ; Fielding receives no full discus- sion ; and many other writers are not even mentioned . My ...
... means a complete history of the literature of the last century : many important authors , like Prior and Smollett , have but a word given them ; Fielding receives no full discus- sion ; and many other writers are not even mentioned . My ...
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... literature begins . Of course , this is not a scientific division . By no stretch of language can Shakspere or Ben Jonson be numbered among ancient authors : all that I mean is 1 this , that Addison and Pope are the first writers.
... literature begins . Of course , this is not a scientific division . By no stretch of language can Shakspere or Ben Jonson be numbered among ancient authors : all that I mean is 1 this , that Addison and Pope are the first writers.
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... mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's ' Du Bartas , ' and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic oceän , To glaze the lakes , to bridle up the floods ...
... mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's ' Du Bartas , ' and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic oceän , To glaze the lakes , to bridle up the floods ...
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... means of what are called enjambments . Wal- ler was the first English writer who treated the couplet as a unit separate and coherent - as , so to speak , a shapely , well - defined brick as compared with the stone of different sizes ...
... means of what are called enjambments . Wal- ler was the first English writer who treated the couplet as a unit separate and coherent - as , so to speak , a shapely , well - defined brick as compared with the stone of different sizes ...
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... means as an end , just as , possibly , some of our con- temporary verse - writers mistake the use of new and rare epithets as all that is required for poetry . The reaction was in favor of simplicity and correctness . It began , as we ...
... means as an end , just as , possibly , some of our con- temporary verse - writers mistake the use of new and rare epithets as all that is required for poetry . The reaction was in favor of simplicity and correctness . It began , as we ...
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Page 137 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 249 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 106 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 245 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 389 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 52 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Page 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...