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Page vii
... never attempts to confirm his con- jectures from the smaller poems , written before the poet was blind : and from which , in the pro- fecution of the fame arbitrary mode of emenda- tion , his analogies in many inftances might have ...
... never attempts to confirm his con- jectures from the smaller poems , written before the poet was blind : and from which , in the pro- fecution of the fame arbitrary mode of emenda- tion , his analogies in many inftances might have ...
Page viii
... , at Magdalene college Ox- ford , mentioned this volume to Mr. Digby , the intimate friend of Pope , Mr. Digby expreffed PARAD . L. B. i . 16 . b NUM . 249 . much much surprise that he had never heard Pope speak of viii PREFA A ĆE .
... , at Magdalene college Ox- ford , mentioned this volume to Mr. Digby , the intimate friend of Pope , Mr. Digby expreffed PARAD . L. B. i . 16 . b NUM . 249 . much much surprise that he had never heard Pope speak of viii PREFA A ĆE .
Page ix
... never heard Pope speak of them , went home and immediately gave them an attentive reading , and afked Pope if he knew any thing of this hidden treasure . Pope availed himself of the queftion : and accordingly , we find him foon ...
... never heard Pope speak of them , went home and immediately gave them an attentive reading , and afked Pope if he knew any thing of this hidden treasure . Pope availed himself of the queftion : and accordingly , we find him foon ...
Page xiii
... never acquire the popularity of the English . But as it is my wish that they may be better known than before , and as they are in this edition , partly on that account , and for the firft time , ac- companied with a series of Notes of ...
... never acquire the popularity of the English . But as it is my wish that they may be better known than before , and as they are in this edition , partly on that account , and for the firft time , ac- companied with a series of Notes of ...
Page xviii
... never dif- graced with fuch language and fuch imagery . Cow- ley's Latinity , dictated by an irregular and unre- ftrained imagination , prefents a mode of diction half Latin and half English . It is not fo much that Cowley wanted a ...
... never dif- graced with fuch language and fuch imagery . Cow- ley's Latinity , dictated by an irregular and unre- ftrained imagination , prefents a mode of diction half Latin and half English . It is not fo much that Cowley wanted a ...
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Page 267 - The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 10 - scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 31 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 92 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 43 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 4 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 350 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 34 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 63 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 74 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...