Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 35
Page 25
... LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second , among the productions of the human mind . By the general consent of ...
... LOST I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to performance , the second , among the productions of the human mind . By the general consent of ...
Page 35
... Lost little opportun- ity for the pathetic ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrors attending the ...
... Lost little opportun- ity for the pathetic ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrors attending the ...
Page 339
... lost ; and he had before him not only what his own meditations sug- gested , but what he had found in other writers , that might be accommodated to his present purpose . These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied ...
... lost ; and he had before him not only what his own meditations sug- gested , but what he had found in other writers , that might be accommodated to his present purpose . These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides beauties Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt COWLEY criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Essay on Criticism excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knowledge labour language learning letter likewise lines literary live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment mind mother nature neglected never numbers o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment Richard Savage satire Savage says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza subscription sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth verses Virgil virtue write written wrote