Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Work, Selected from the Most Distinguished WritersA. Thom & Sons, 1857 - 508 páginas |
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... to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Work, Selected from the Most Distinguished Writers. THE NW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 160444 ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS . 1899 . OUIBUR PREFACE . • THE following Biographical and Critical Sketches have.
... to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Work, Selected from the Most Distinguished Writers. THE NW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 160444 ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS . 1899 . OUIBUR PREFACE . • THE following Biographical and Critical Sketches have.
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... Critical Sketches have been compiled for the use of teachers , and for such of their pupils , in the advanced classes , as may be qualified to profit by the study , of literary biography . It was thought that the Selections from the ...
... Critical Sketches have been compiled for the use of teachers , and for such of their pupils , in the advanced classes , as may be qualified to profit by the study , of literary biography . It was thought that the Selections from the ...
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... critical judg- ments , have been acknowledged . Conscious of his own incompetency , he has not presumed to exercise the office of critic ; but he has availed himself largely of the labours of others , and has appended to his preliminary ...
... critical judg- ments , have been acknowledged . Conscious of his own incompetency , he has not presumed to exercise the office of critic ; but he has availed himself largely of the labours of others , and has appended to his preliminary ...
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... critical writings of living authors , he has done so only for the purpose of illustration , and in the hope that his readers may be induced to peruse the works from which his quotations have been taken . From an attentive perusal of the ...
... critical writings of living authors , he has done so only for the purpose of illustration , and in the hope that his readers may be induced to peruse the works from which his quotations have been taken . From an attentive perusal of the ...
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... Most Distinguished Writers. THEN . W YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 160444 ASTOR . LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS . 1899 . * £ y yw * r » ¥ # y I p ? ] MEM AOKK YRAROLI PREFACE . · THE following Biographical and Critical Sketches have.
... Most Distinguished Writers. THEN . W YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 160444 ASTOR . LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS . 1899 . * £ y yw * r » ¥ # y I p ? ] MEM AOKK YRAROLI PREFACE . · THE following Biographical and Critical Sketches have.
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Página 60 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 361 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 460 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low • So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that...
Página 60 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 361 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Página 312 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 281 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Página 333 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Página 184 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit: Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
Página 218 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.