Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 páginas |
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... doctrine , but the music , there . These equal syllables alone require , Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join , 66 And ten low words oft creep in one dull 104 SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS .
... doctrine , but the music , there . These equal syllables alone require , Though oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join , 66 And ten low words oft creep in one dull 104 SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS .
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... syllables ? " - For these first eight lines , you have the bad critic , and the bad critic only , 66 But who are " THEY " that " ring round the same unvaried chimes " of rhymes ; who bestow upon " you , " " " the reader , " - " breeze ...
... syllables ? " - For these first eight lines , you have the bad critic , and the bad critic only , 66 But who are " THEY " that " ring round the same unvaried chimes " of rhymes ; who bestow upon " you , " " " the reader , " - " breeze ...
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... syllables which we call a verse , is perhaps not explicable by our philosophy ; but of the power itself , the uniform history of mankind leaves us no liberty to doubt . Yet may we understand something of this wonderful agency ; and ...
... syllables which we call a verse , is perhaps not explicable by our philosophy ; but of the power itself , the uniform history of mankind leaves us no liberty to doubt . Yet may we understand something of this wonderful agency ; and ...
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... syllable has in itself a spell , more potent by its position , survive , in undiminished force and beauty , the art that would fain spirit them away out of one language , which they have breathed all life long , into another which they ...
... syllable has in itself a spell , more potent by its position , survive , in undiminished force and beauty , the art that would fain spirit them away out of one language , which they have breathed all life long , into another which they ...
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... syllables in a verse where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and ob- vious an error , that common sense ( which is a rule in every- thing but matters of faith and revelation ) must convince the ...
... syllables in a verse where we find but nine ; but this opinion is not worth confuting ; it is so gross and ob- vious an error , that common sense ( which is a rule in every- thing but matters of faith and revelation ) must convince the ...
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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.