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... ( Poetry ) was defi- cient . . . . Carew and Waller jointly began to remedy these defects . In them Gallantry , for the first time was accom- panied by the Graces . - HEADLEY , HENRY , 1787 , Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry ...
... ( Poetry ) was defi- cient . . . . Carew and Waller jointly began to remedy these defects . In them Gallantry , for the first time was accom- panied by the Graces . - HEADLEY , HENRY , 1787 , Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry ...
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... Poets , ed . Ward , vol . II , pp . 111 , 112 , 113 . He He is one of the most perfect masters of lyrical form in English poetry . He possesses a command of the overlapped heroic couplet , which for sweep and rush of rhythm cannot be ...
... Poets , ed . Ward , vol . II , pp . 111 , 112 , 113 . He He is one of the most perfect masters of lyrical form in English poetry . He possesses a command of the overlapped heroic couplet , which for sweep and rush of rhythm cannot be ...
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... Poets " ( " Choice Drollery , " 1656 ) occurs the couplet- Deep in a dump John Forde was alone got , With folded arms and melancholy hat . be despicable ; but it contains some choice poetry , notably the description ( after Strada ) of ...
... Poets " ( " Choice Drollery , " 1656 ) occurs the couplet- Deep in a dump John Forde was alone got , With folded arms and melancholy hat . be despicable ; but it contains some choice poetry , notably the description ( after Strada ) of ...
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... poetry , and has interested us in no other passion ex- cept that of love ; but in that he displays a peculiar depth and delicacy of romantic feeling . CAMPBELL , THOMAS , 1819 , An Essay on English Poetry . Ford is not so great a ...
... poetry , and has interested us in no other passion ex- cept that of love ; but in that he displays a peculiar depth and delicacy of romantic feeling . CAMPBELL , THOMAS , 1819 , An Essay on English Poetry . Ford is not so great a ...
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... poet has lived a life so pub- lic , so adventurous and so full of vicissi- tude as his . Nothing short of an irresist- ible bias towards the art of poetry could have induced so busy and so fortunate a man to write in verse at all ...
... poet has lived a life so pub- lic , so adventurous and so full of vicissi- tude as his . Nothing short of an irresist- ible bias towards the art of poetry could have induced so busy and so fortunate a man to write in verse at all ...
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Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Page 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.
Page 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.