The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1806 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... poet by those , who now dispute his claims to that quire originality , at the expense of character . These gentlemen re- whatever absurdity . They prefer the wilderness to the garden , though the latter may possess all the beauties of ...
... poet by those , who now dispute his claims to that quire originality , at the expense of character . These gentlemen re- whatever absurdity . They prefer the wilderness to the garden , though the latter may possess all the beauties of ...
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... poet ancient or modern . And yet what ancient author is so universally read , or affords so much pleasure , Horace perhaps excepted ? Pope has more origi- nality than Virgil , but less than Dryden . Yet who reads more of Dryden than a ...
... poet ancient or modern . And yet what ancient author is so universally read , or affords so much pleasure , Horace perhaps excepted ? Pope has more origi- nality than Virgil , but less than Dryden . Yet who reads more of Dryden than a ...
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... poet , I think the latter decidedly infe- riour . Though he may possess no passage so faulty as the one just quoted , yet he seldom rises above the level of mediocrity . Notwith- standing that the style of Cowper is unusually chaste ...
... poet , I think the latter decidedly infe- riour . Though he may possess no passage so faulty as the one just quoted , yet he seldom rises above the level of mediocrity . Notwith- standing that the style of Cowper is unusually chaste ...
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... poet is a dunce , we say that he is a genius ; when an ora- tor talks fustian , we say that he is eloquent ; when a writer is sole- cistical , we say that he is a little inaccurate ; or when a book is composed in a Babylonish dialect ...
... poet is a dunce , we say that he is a genius ; when an ora- tor talks fustian , we say that he is eloquent ; when a writer is sole- cistical , we say that he is a little inaccurate ; or when a book is composed in a Babylonish dialect ...
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... poets ; but I could not , without extreme reluctance , resign the throne of your beauty to another hand . But with whatsoever vanity this new honour of being your poet has filled my mind , I confess myself too weak for the inspiration ...
... poets ; but I could not , without extreme reluctance , resign the throne of your beauty to another hand . But with whatsoever vanity this new honour of being your poet has filled my mind , I confess myself too weak for the inspiration ...
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Page 537 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 540 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, $ Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 458 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...
Page 540 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead...
Page 284 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Page 619 - 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 537 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank...
Page 284 - And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well.
Page 563 - Not long ago I began a poem in the style and stanza of Spenser, in which I propose to give full scope to my inclination, and be either droll or pathetic, descriptive or sentimental, tender or satirical, as the humour strikes me; for, if I mistake not, the measure which I have adopted admits equally of all these kinds of composition.
Page 458 - If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.