The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 - English poetry |
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... - lected a fecond volume of the Mufa Anglicana , perhaps for a convenient re- ceptacle , in which all his Latin pieces * He took the degree of M. A. Feb. 14 , 1693 . A 4 are are inferted , and where his Poem on the Peace ADDISON . 7.
... - lected a fecond volume of the Mufa Anglicana , perhaps for a convenient re- ceptacle , in which all his Latin pieces * He took the degree of M. A. Feb. 14 , 1693 . A 4 are are inferted , and where his Poem on the Peace ADDISON . 7.
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... perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and a Bowling- green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean mean ...
... perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and a Bowling- green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean mean ...
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... Perhaps he only collected his materials , and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employ- ments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to lord Halifax , which is justly confi- dered as the most elegant , if not the moft fublime , of ...
... Perhaps he only collected his materials , and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employ- ments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to lord Halifax , which is justly confi- dered as the most elegant , if not the moft fublime , of ...
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... perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyere's Manners of the Age , though , as Boileau remarked , it is written without con-- nection , certainly deferves great praife ,. for liveliness of defcription and juftnefs of ...
... perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyere's Manners of the Age , though , as Boileau remarked , it is written without con-- nection , certainly deferves great praife ,. for liveliness of defcription and juftnefs of ...
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... perhaps by others ; but hitherto nothing had been conveyed to the people , in this commo- dious manner , but controverfy relating to the Church or State ; of which they taught many to talk , whom they could not teach to judge . It has ...
... perhaps by others ; but hitherto nothing had been conveyed to the people , in this commo- dious manner , but controverfy relating to the Church or State ; of which they taught many to talk , whom they could not teach to judge . It has ...
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Page 155 - He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination.
Page 82 - was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
Page 90 - No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness.
Page 75 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.
Page 156 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Page 149 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 150 - That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance, and in the female world any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured.
Page 157 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 68 - ... reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared with that contempt of national right with •which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of whiggism, the commons, chosen by the people for three years, chose themselves for seven.
Page 61 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.