A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).Macmillan and Company, 1889 - 415 oldal |
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... thought , and a subdued and chastened ornament . Although the results of the change appear anything but attractive to our- selves , and although the direct and positive gain to English poetry seems very small to us now , the relief from ...
... thought , and a subdued and chastened ornament . Although the results of the change appear anything but attractive to our- selves , and although the direct and positive gain to English poetry seems very small to us now , the relief from ...
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... thought , expression and metrical form , are all tortured in concert . After the battle of Naseby , Cowley , who , like most of the men of letters , was a royalist , followed the queen to Paris , and there came under the influence of ...
... thought , expression and metrical form , are all tortured in concert . After the battle of Naseby , Cowley , who , like most of the men of letters , was a royalist , followed the queen to Paris , and there came under the influence of ...
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... thought as to adopt and illuminate them when they had once become national . For this reason , perhaps , he was not happy until all question of transition was over . He did not take up poetry in earnest till all intelligent Englishmen ...
... thought as to adopt and illuminate them when they had once become national . For this reason , perhaps , he was not happy until all question of transition was over . He did not take up poetry in earnest till all intelligent Englishmen ...
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... thought , and its fine passages , brilliant as they are , are mere purple patches . The theme was twofold - the progress of our naval war with Holland , and that of the great fire of London . The character of Dryden's work now changed ...
... thought , and its fine passages , brilliant as they are , are mere purple patches . The theme was twofold - the progress of our naval war with Holland , and that of the great fire of London . The character of Dryden's work now changed ...
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... thought , of the kind of poetry introduced into France by Voiture and his friends . These fourteen years of Dryden's exclusive attachment to drama mark a very low spot indeed in English poetical literature . Dryden himself had reached ...
... thought , of the kind of poetry introduced into France by Voiture and his friends . These fourteen years of Dryden's exclusive attachment to drama mark a very low spot indeed in English poetical literature . Dryden himself had reached ...
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233. oldal - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
125. oldal - Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal Darkness buries All.
229. oldal - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
290. oldal - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
294. oldal - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
340. oldal - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't • As he comes up the stair, — And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi...
121. oldal - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
60. oldal - 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
231. oldal - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome— at an inn.
322. oldal - Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.