Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Band 1J. Nichols, 1779 |
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... fays Sprat , " paffed of courfe into other " hands ; " and Cowley being no longer ufeful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that " under pretence of " privacy C into COWLEY . 17 "tell you the truth (which I take to ...
... fays Sprat , " paffed of courfe into other " hands ; " and Cowley being no longer ufeful at Paris , was in 1656 fent back into England , that " under pretence of " privacy C into COWLEY . 17 "tell you the truth (which I take to ...
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... fent out in queft of another man ; and being exa- mined , was put into confinement , from which he was not difmiffed without the fecurity of a thousand pounds given by Dr. Scarborow . • This year he published his poems , with a preface ...
... fent out in queft of another man ; and being exa- mined , was put into confinement , from which he was not difmiffed without the fecurity of a thousand pounds given by Dr. Scarborow . • This year he published his poems , with a preface ...
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... have escaped former ob- fervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more repre- 3 fent , fent , by their flender conceits and la- boured particularities COWLEY . 45.
... have escaped former ob- fervation . Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more repre- 3 fent , fent , by their flender conceits and la- boured particularities COWLEY . 45.
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Samuel Johnson. fent , by their flender conceits and la- boured particularities , the profpects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prifm , can exhibit the wide effulgence of a fummer noon ...
Samuel Johnson. fent , by their flender conceits and la- boured particularities , the profpects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prifm , can exhibit the wide effulgence of a fummer noon ...
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... globe , yea world , by that impreffion grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do over- flow This world , by waters fent from thee my heaven diffolved fo . On On reading the following lines the reader may perhaps cry COWLEY . 61.
... globe , yea world , by that impreffion grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do over- flow This world , by waters fent from thee my heaven diffolved fo . On On reading the following lines the reader may perhaps cry COWLEY . 61.
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Seite 38 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Seite 4 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Seite 59 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...
Seite 113 - ... running all beside, Make a long row of goodly pride, Figures, conceits, raptures, and sentences, In a well-worded dress, And innocent loves, and pleasant truths, and useful lies, In all their gaudy liveries.
Seite 75 - The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Seite 32 - He was now,' says the courtly Sprat, 'weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners. He was satiated with the arts of a court; which sort of life, though his virtue made it innocent to him, yet nothing could make it quiet.
Seite 104 - The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit, or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex...
Seite 161 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Seite 145 - tis imposture all; And as no chemic yet the elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot If by the way to him befall Some odoriferous thing, or medicinal, So lovers dream a rich and long delight, But get a winter-seeming summer's night.