Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Young. Dyer. Mallet. Shenstone. Akenside. Lyttelton. West. GrayJ. Nichols, 1781 |
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... not only 66 by suggesting the most beautiful inci- " dent in them , but by making all pof- " fible provifion for the fuccefs of the " whole . " That That his Grace fhould have fuggefted the incident to which YOUNG . 27.
... not only 66 by suggesting the most beautiful inci- " dent in them , but by making all pof- " fible provifion for the fuccefs of the " whole . " That That his Grace fhould have fuggefted the incident to which YOUNG . 27.
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... whole family of Yorick . - His immortal part , where- ever that now dwells , is ftill lefs foli- citous on this head . But to a fon of worth and fenfibility it is of fome little confequence whether contemporaries believe , and pofterity ...
... whole family of Yorick . - His immortal part , where- ever that now dwells , is ftill lefs foli- citous on this head . But to a fon of worth and fenfibility it is of fome little confequence whether contemporaries believe , and pofterity ...
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... whole reign uncommonly long , and part of another , he was never thought worthy of the leaft preferment . The author of the Night Thoughts ended his days upon a Living which came to him him from his College without any fa- vour , and ...
... whole reign uncommonly long , and part of another , he was never thought worthy of the leaft preferment . The author of the Night Thoughts ended his days upon a Living which came to him him from his College without any fa- vour , and ...
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... whole life panted . Though he took Orders , he never intirely fhook off Politics . He was always the Lion of his master Milton , pawing to get free his binder parts . By this conduct , if he gained fome friends , he made many ene- mies ...
... whole life panted . Though he took Orders , he never intirely fhook off Politics . He was always the Lion of his master Milton , pawing to get free his binder parts . By this conduct , if he gained fome friends , he made many ene- mies ...
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... whole is lan- guid ; the plan is too much extended , and a fucceffion of images divides and weakens the general conception ; but the great reafon why the reader is dif appointed is , that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more ...
... whole is lan- guid ; the plan is too much extended , and a fucceffion of images divides and weakens the general conception ; but the great reafon why the reader is dif appointed is , that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more ...
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18 ページ - Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
17 ページ - Tis his with mock passion to glow ! Tis his in smooth tales to unfold, How her face is as bright as the snow, And her bosom, be sure, is as cold ; How the nightingales labour the strain, With the notes of his charmer to vie ; How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs and die.
19 ページ - ... always to mean more than he said. Would you have any more reasons? An interval of above forty years has pretty well destroyed the charm. A dead lord ranks with commoners; vanity is no longer interested in the matter ; for a new road has become an old one.
35 ページ - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
8 ページ - The pleasure of Shenstone was all in his eye ; he valued what he valued merely for its looks; nothing raised his indignation more than to ask if there were any fishes in his water.
26 ページ - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
107 ページ - In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage.
6 ページ - Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
16 ページ - I priz'd every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleas'd me before; But now they are past, and I sigh; And I grieve that I priz'd them no more.
30 ページ - To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that " The Bard" promotes any truth, moral or political.