English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 oldal |
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... Edition of Spenser . - Dr . Young's Poems . Dr. Blair . - Boyse . IV . Didactic Poets : Grainger , Arm- strong , Dyer . - Milton's Influence Denounced . V. Thomson's " Sea- sons . " - Allan Ramsay's " Gentle Shepherd . " - Gray's ...
... Edition of Spenser . - Dr . Young's Poems . Dr. Blair . - Boyse . IV . Didactic Poets : Grainger , Arm- strong , Dyer . - Milton's Influence Denounced . V. Thomson's " Sea- sons . " - Allan Ramsay's " Gentle Shepherd . " - Gray's ...
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... edition of Pope's " Essay on Man , " p . 19 ) , " the stanza in verse is the analogue of the prose sentence as constructed by Hooker , Jeremy Taylor , or Milton . Each of these stately periods carries along with it , over and above its ...
... edition of Pope's " Essay on Man , " p . 19 ) , " the stanza in verse is the analogue of the prose sentence as constructed by Hooker , Jeremy Taylor , or Milton . Each of these stately periods carries along with it , over and above its ...
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... edition of 1688 , the publication of which was almost a political move , did much to redeem the neglect from which Milton's fame had been suffering . Even now we are repelled by the tedious theology and the classical form of the ...
... edition of 1688 , the publication of which was almost a political move , did much to redeem the neglect from which Milton's fame had been suffering . Even now we are repelled by the tedious theology and the classical form of the ...
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... editions were small , and the prices paid authors low . There were not more than 1500 copies in each edition of Milton , and 1300 copies were sold in two years , the author receiving £ 5 down , and five more when 1300 were sold ( vide ...
... editions were small , and the prices paid authors low . There were not more than 1500 copies in each edition of Milton , and 1300 copies were sold in two years , the author receiving £ 5 down , and five more when 1300 were sold ( vide ...
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... edition of Hall's satires , rules out Piers Plowman as a mediæval writer , and mentions , besides Gascoigne , Hake's " Newes out of Powles Church Yard , " 1567-69 , and Thomas Lodge's " Fig for Momus , " 1595. What Hall meant was that ...
... edition of Hall's satires , rules out Piers Plowman as a mediæval writer , and mentions , besides Gascoigne , Hake's " Newes out of Powles Church Yard , " 1567-69 , and Thomas Lodge's " Fig for Momus , " 1595. What Hall meant was that ...
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52. oldal - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
52. oldal - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
243. oldal - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
103. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
53. oldal - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
429. oldal - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
106. oldal - ... tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
239. oldal - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
161. oldal - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from, heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
387. oldal - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.