Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 |
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xvi. oldal
... it was entrusted to Birkbeck Hill . The book appeared under somewhat unusual conditions , for though General Gordon had given his consent to the publication late rad Er people anions of g arked b is xvi BRIEF MEMOIR OF.
... it was entrusted to Birkbeck Hill . The book appeared under somewhat unusual conditions , for though General Gordon had given his consent to the publication late rad Er people anions of g arked b is xvi BRIEF MEMOIR OF.
xvii. oldal
... publication of Boswell found Birkbeck Hill removed from his country home and settled at Oxford . For close on six years his home was here in a small house near ' The Parks . ' Though he missed the country , he enjoyed Oxford life to the ...
... publication of Boswell found Birkbeck Hill removed from his country home and settled at Oxford . For close on six years his home was here in a small house near ' The Parks . ' Though he missed the country , he enjoyed Oxford life to the ...
xviii. oldal
... publication when his term of Vice - Chancellorship brought him into close connexion with the Clarendon Press . It was by his happy suggestion that application was made to the Earl of Rosebery , who at once consented to buy the whole ...
... publication when his term of Vice - Chancellorship brought him into close connexion with the Clarendon Press . It was by his happy suggestion that application was made to the Earl of Rosebery , who at once consented to buy the whole ...
xx. oldal
... publication of the last piece of Johnsonian work which he lived to complete . At the suggestion of Sir Leslie Stephen he edited all those writings which have long been included under the general title of ' Johnsoniana . ' In the Preface ...
... publication of the last piece of Johnsonian work which he lived to complete . At the suggestion of Sir Leslie Stephen he edited all those writings which have long been included under the general title of ' Johnsoniana . ' In the Preface ...
49. oldal
... publication till now in the whole succession of English literature . Of this silence and neglect , if the reason be inquired , it will 146 be found partly in the choice of the subject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred ...
... publication till now in the whole succession of English literature . Of this silence and neglect , if the reason be inquired , it will 146 be found partly in the choice of the subject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred ...
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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.