Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 páginas |
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... fancy . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted to say many things which might be better omitted , or at least shut up in fewer words . But when the difficulty of artificial rhyming is interposed ...
... fancy . The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant ; he is tempted to say many things which might be better omitted , or at least shut up in fewer words . But when the difficulty of artificial rhyming is interposed ...
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... fancy descends to us in such easy expressions , that they seem as if neither had ever been added to the other , but both together flowing from a height , like birds so high that use no balancing wings , but only with an easy care ...
... fancy descends to us in such easy expressions , that they seem as if neither had ever been added to the other , but both together flowing from a height , like birds so high that use no balancing wings , but only with an easy care ...
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... fancy led him ; and leaving the town almost empty , some took towards the park , some cross the river , some down it , all seeking the noise in the depth of silence . 66 Amongst the rest , it was the fortune of Eugenius , Crites ...
... fancy led him ; and leaving the town almost empty , some took towards the park , some cross the river , some down it , all seeking the noise in the depth of silence . 66 Amongst the rest , it was the fortune of Eugenius , Crites ...
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... fancy which would extend itself too far on every subject , did not the labour which is required to well - turned and polished rhyme set bounds to it . But he who wants judgment to con- fine his fancy in blank verse , may want it as much ...
... fancy which would extend itself too far on every subject , did not the labour which is required to well - turned and polished rhyme set bounds to it . But he who wants judgment to con- fine his fancy in blank verse , may want it as much ...
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... there mingle the cadency and sweetness of verse- " the soul of the hearer has nothing more to desire . " Rhyme was said by its defender to be a help to the poet's judgment , by putting bounds to a wild overflowing fancy 3 DRYDEN . 25.
... there mingle the cadency and sweetness of verse- " the soul of the hearer has nothing more to desire . " Rhyme was said by its defender to be a help to the poet's judgment , by putting bounds to a wild overflowing fancy 3 DRYDEN . 25.
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Página 299 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 99 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Página 57 - You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 57 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Página 102 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Página 189 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Página 267 - So spake the Son : but Satan, with his Powers, Far was advanced on winged speed : an host Innumerable as the stars of night; Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Página 101 - Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Página 70 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 37 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.