Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 73
... excellence beyond the mechanical rules of art is attempted , the poet must sometimes fail . But I imagine that there are more perfect examples in Milton of musical expression , or of an adaptation of the sound and movement of the verse ...
... excellence beyond the mechanical rules of art is attempted , the poet must sometimes fail . But I imagine that there are more perfect examples in Milton of musical expression , or of an adaptation of the sound and movement of the verse ...
Σελίδα 82
... excellence which ex- isted equally nowhere else . What has been done well by some later writers of the highest style of poetry , is included in , and ob- scured by , a greater degree of power and genius in those before them what has ...
... excellence which ex- isted equally nowhere else . What has been done well by some later writers of the highest style of poetry , is included in , and ob- scured by , a greater degree of power and genius in those before them what has ...
Σελίδα 85
... excellence lay more in diminishing than in aggrandizing objects ; in checking , not in encouraging , our enthusiasm ; in sneering at the extravagances of fancy or passion , instead of giving a loose to them ; in de- scribing a row of ...
... excellence lay more in diminishing than in aggrandizing objects ; in checking , not in encouraging , our enthusiasm ; in sneering at the extravagances of fancy or passion , instead of giving a loose to them ; in de- scribing a row of ...
Σελίδα 90
... excellence is by no means faultlessness . If he had no great faults , he is full of little errors . His grammatical construc- tion is often lame and imperfect . In the Abelard and Eloise , he says- " There died the best of passions ...
... excellence is by no means faultlessness . If he had no great faults , he is full of little errors . His grammatical construc- tion is often lame and imperfect . In the Abelard and Eloise , he says- " There died the best of passions ...
Σελίδα 109
... excellence , the " unbought grace " of poetry , the power of moving and infusing the warmth of the author's mind into that of the reader . If Cowper had a more polished taste , Thomson had , beyond comparison , a more fertile genius ...
... excellence , the " unbought grace " of poetry , the power of moving and infusing the warmth of the author's mind into that of the reader . If Cowper had a more polished taste , Thomson had , beyond comparison , a more fertile genius ...
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Σελίδα 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Σελίδα 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Σελίδα 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Σελίδα 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Σελίδα 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Σελίδα 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Σελίδα 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Σελίδα 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Σελίδα 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Σελίδα 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...