1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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... English Poetry , Lecture iv . In the " Unnatural Combat , " probably among the earliest of Massinger's works , we find a greater energy , a bolder strain of figurative poetry , more command of ter- ror , and perhaps of pity , than in ...
... English Poetry , Lecture iv . In the " Unnatural Combat , " probably among the earliest of Massinger's works , we find a greater energy , a bolder strain of figurative poetry , more command of ter- ror , and perhaps of pity , than in ...
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... English Poetry , Lecture iv . The most striking excellence of this poet is his conception of character ; and in this I must incline to place him above Fletcher , and , if I may venture to say it , even above Jonson . He is free from the ...
... English Poetry , Lecture iv . The most striking excellence of this poet is his conception of character ; and in this I must incline to place him above Fletcher , and , if I may venture to say it , even above Jonson . He is free from the ...
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... English history , since his time , is indebted , was one of the Antiquarian Society in the reign of James . I. and ... poetry than on the English poetry of his friends Drummond , Aytoun , and Alexander . - MASSON , DAVID , 1858 ...
... English history , since his time , is indebted , was one of the Antiquarian Society in the reign of James . I. and ... poetry than on the English poetry of his friends Drummond , Aytoun , and Alexander . - MASSON , DAVID , 1858 ...
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... English Poets . Sir John Suckling is acknowledged to have left far behind him all former writ- ers of song in gayety and ease : it is not equally clear that he has ever since been surpassed . His poetry aims at no higher praise : he ...
... English Poets . Sir John Suckling is acknowledged to have left far behind him all former writ- ers of song in gayety and ease : it is not equally clear that he has ever since been surpassed . His poetry aims at no higher praise : he ...
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... poetry , he may justly be remembered by a sufficiently prominent title among English poets- that of the typically extravagant Oxford resident of his period . He pos- sessed a real rhetorical inventiveness , and an extraordinary felicity ...
... poetry , he may justly be remembered by a sufficiently prominent title among English poets- that of the typically extravagant Oxford resident of his period . He pos- sessed a real rhetorical inventiveness , and an extraordinary felicity ...
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Página 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Página 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Página 284 - 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.
Página 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Página 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Página 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Página 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Página 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.