The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to fome particular di- rection . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the prefent age , had the first fondness for his art ex- cited by the ...
... Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to fome particular di- rection . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the prefent age , had the first fondness for his art ex- cited by the ...
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... genius , nor our pity for a fufferer , dif- pofe us to forget that , if his activity was virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of Phy- fician , ftill , according to Sprat , with intention " to ...
... genius , nor our pity for a fufferer , dif- pofe us to forget that , if his activity was virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of Phy- fician , ftill , according to Sprat , with intention " to ...
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... genius , of oppofite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared * feemed unable to conteft the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the ...
... genius , of oppofite principles ; but con- curring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared * feemed unable to conteft the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the ...
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... ; the moralift , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To fuch a performance Suckling could have brought brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden 42 COWLEY .
... ; the moralift , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . To fuch a performance Suckling could have brought brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden 42 COWLEY .
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... genius to dignify . The miracle of Creation , however it may teem with images , is best described with little diffusion of language : He spake the word , and they were made . We are told that Saul was troubled with an evil Spirit ; from ...
... genius to dignify . The miracle of Creation , however it may teem with images , is best described with little diffusion of language : He spake the word , and they were made . We are told that Saul was troubled with an evil Spirit ; from ...
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77 ページ - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
76 ページ - 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; Alike...
98 ページ - ... 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...
473 ページ - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
23 ページ - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is upon its first production acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed, to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
98 ページ - I had taken two degrees, as the manner is, signified many ways, how much better it would content them that I would stay ; as by many letters full of kindness and loving respect, both before that time, and long after, I was assured of their singular good affection towards me.
24 ページ - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
142 ページ - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
103 ページ - ... of his adversaries calling him pedagogue and school-master; whereas it is well known he never set up for a public school, to teach all the young fry of a parish ; but only was willing to impart his learning and knowledge to his relations, and the sons of gentlemen who were his intimate friends, and that neither his writings nor his way of teaching ever savoured in the least of pedantry.
384 ページ - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled ; every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid ; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.