Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumen 3Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
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... poetical , adorned with picturesque imagery , but frequently pedantic , rugged , and obscure . His next publication , entitled Pseu- dodoxia Epidemica , ' or treatise on Vulgar Errors , appeared in 1646 . It is much more philosophical ...
... poetical , adorned with picturesque imagery , but frequently pedantic , rugged , and obscure . His next publication , entitled Pseu- dodoxia Epidemica , ' or treatise on Vulgar Errors , appeared in 1646 . It is much more philosophical ...
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... poetical feeling and expression . The Singing Birds . At first the lark , when she means to rejoice , to cheer herself and those that hear her , she then quits the earth , and sings as she ascends higher into the air ; and having ended ...
... poetical feeling and expression . The Singing Birds . At first the lark , when she means to rejoice , to cheer herself and those that hear her , she then quits the earth , and sings as she ascends higher into the air ; and having ended ...
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... poetical diction of his native tongue , performed also essential service of the same kind to our prose . Throwing off , still more than Cowley had done , those inversions and other forms of Latin idiom which abound in the pages of his ...
... poetical diction of his native tongue , performed also essential service of the same kind to our prose . Throwing off , still more than Cowley had done , those inversions and other forms of Latin idiom which abound in the pages of his ...
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... poetical expressions , and in musical numbers ; for , though all these are exceeding difficult to perform , yet there remains a harder task ; and it is a secret of which few translators have sufficiently thought . I have already hinted ...
... poetical expressions , and in musical numbers ; for , though all these are exceeding difficult to perform , yet there remains a harder task ; and it is a secret of which few translators have sufficiently thought . I have already hinted ...
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... poetical descriptions , and precepts of morality , in the beginning and ending of his books , which you see Virgil has imitated with great success in those four books , which , in my opinion , are more perfect in their kind than even ...
... poetical descriptions , and precepts of morality , in the beginning and ending of his books , which you see Virgil has imitated with great success in those four books , which , in my opinion , are more perfect in their kind than even ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addison admiration afterwards Allan Ramsay AMBROSE PHILIPS ancient appear beauty blessed called character Charles II Christian church Colley Cibber court death delight discourse divine Dunciad earth England English Essay eyes fame fancy father fear fortune frae genius give grace Grongar Hill hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour Hudibras humour Iliad Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT king KITE lady learning letters live Lochaber look Lord mind moral nature never night o'er Oroonoko Ovid passion persons pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political poor Pope praise prince published reason religion rich rise satire says Scotland shew shining sing Sir William Temple soul speak spirit style Swift taste Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion truth verse virtue Whig wife wine write wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 315 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 397 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Página 299 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 193 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 87 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 290 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 182 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! . Rapt into future times, the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's...
Página 283 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Página 395 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Página 194 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.