Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 |
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ix. oldal
... father , a disciple of Priestley and an ardent Reformer , not only threw themselves with enthusiasm into the ... father's side related to Frederic Denison Maurice ; on ix.
... father , a disciple of Priestley and an ardent Reformer , not only threw themselves with enthusiasm into the ... father's side related to Frederic Denison Maurice ; on ix.
x. oldal
... fathers he clung tenaciously throughout his life . From his father he inherited , in addition to a strong moral rectitude , a love of justice , a hatred of tyrannies and shams , and a sympathy with the oppressed . ' Beg of Arthur not to ...
... fathers he clung tenaciously throughout his life . From his father he inherited , in addition to a strong moral rectitude , a love of justice , a hatred of tyrannies and shams , and a sympathy with the oppressed . ' Beg of Arthur not to ...
xi. oldal
... father's school that Birkbeck Hill was educated until he matriculated at Oxford . The teaching was excellent , so far as it went . Thoroughness and good discipline were achieved : individuality and intelligence were encouraged . Yet ...
... father's school that Birkbeck Hill was educated until he matriculated at Oxford . The teaching was excellent , so far as it went . Thoroughness and good discipline were achieved : individuality and intelligence were encouraged . Yet ...
xii. oldal
... father's house . I ventured to assert that it could boast at all events of one piece of poetry - the steam engine . The roar of laughter which burst forth nearly overwhelmed me . The author of The Earthly Paradise almost overturned his ...
... father's house . I ventured to assert that it could boast at all events of one piece of poetry - the steam engine . The roar of laughter which burst forth nearly overwhelmed me . The author of The Earthly Paradise almost overturned his ...
xiii. oldal
... father in the school , though he did not take orders as he had originally intended when he went up to Oxford . In the January of the next year he was married to Annie Scott , the daughter of Edward Scott , a solicitor of Wigan in ...
... father in the school , though he did not take orders as he had originally intended when he went up to Oxford . In the January of the next year he was married to Annie Scott , the daughter of Edward Scott , a solicitor of Wigan in ...
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163. oldal - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
276. oldal - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
20. oldal - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
78. oldal - 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.
100. oldal - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
141. oldal - Paradise Lost," but what hast thou to say of
88. oldal - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
292. oldal - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
136. oldal - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
440. oldal - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.