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... obtain a more correct chronology , will publish it : but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous . * Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewheret printed be . fore . The former edition I have seen . This was transcribed for the ...
... obtain a more correct chronology , will publish it : but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous . * Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewheret printed be . fore . The former edition I have seen . This was transcribed for the ...
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... obtained an order to be created doctor of physick : which being done to his mind . ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no ...
... obtained an order to be created doctor of physick : which being done to his mind . ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no ...
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... obtained , by the interest of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Bucking- ham , such a lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicit- ously asked , if he now was ...
... obtained , by the interest of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Bucking- ham , such a lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicit- ously asked , if he now was ...
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... . No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equa- bility , which has never yet obtained its due com- 66 COWLEY .
... . No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equa- bility , which has never yet obtained its due com- 66 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. bility , which has never yet obtained its due com- mendation . Nothing is far - sought , or hard - laboured ; " but all is easy without feebleness , and familiar without grossness . It has been observed by Felton , in his ...
Samuel Johnson. bility , which has never yet obtained its due com- mendation . Nothing is far - sought , or hard - laboured ; " but all is easy without feebleness , and familiar without grossness . It has been observed by Felton , in his ...
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Page 371 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 74 - 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.
Page 92 - 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.
Page 61 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 140 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and /Eolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a College easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge or less exercise invention than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy;...
Page 86 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 38 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 141 - ... combinations. The shepherd likewise is now a feeder of sheep, and afterwards an ecclesiastical pastor, a superintendent of a Christian flock. Such equivocations are always unskilful; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not...
Page 26 - Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Page 93 - ... 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; to this must be added industrious and select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation...