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... least under these titles , have been assigned to Richard Brome , but on very ques- tionable authority : Wit in Madness ; Christianetta ; The Jewish Gentleman ; The Lovesick Maid ; Life and Death of Sir Martin Skink ; The Apprentice ...
... least under these titles , have been assigned to Richard Brome , but on very ques- tionable authority : Wit in Madness ; Christianetta ; The Jewish Gentleman ; The Lovesick Maid ; Life and Death of Sir Martin Skink ; The Apprentice ...
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... least , that Dr. Johnson had never seen the book he speaks of , for it is entirely composed in English , though its title begins with two Latin words , " Theatrum Poetarum ; or , a compleat Collection of the Poets , " & c .; a ...
... least , that Dr. Johnson had never seen the book he speaks of , for it is entirely composed in English , though its title begins with two Latin words , " Theatrum Poetarum ; or , a compleat Collection of the Poets , " & c .; a ...
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... least of pedantry . ' Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be de- nied , and what might be confessed without disgrace . Milton was not a man who could become mean by a mean employment . This , how- ever , his warmest ...
... least of pedantry . ' Thus laboriously does his nephew extenuate what cannot be de- nied , and what might be confessed without disgrace . Milton was not a man who could become mean by a mean employment . This , how- ever , his warmest ...
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... least the publishers of this prayer ; and Dr. Birch , who had examined the question with great care , was inclined to think them the forgers . The use of it by adap- tation was innocent ; and they who could so noisily censure it , with ...
... least the publishers of this prayer ; and Dr. Birch , who had examined the question with great care , was inclined to think them the forgers . The use of it by adap- tation was innocent ; and they who could so noisily censure it , with ...
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... least practicable * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is com- monly a braggart , as in miles gloriosus . Dr. Johnson . in a ...
... least practicable * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res gloriosa is an illustrious thing ; but vir gloriosus is com- monly a braggart , as in miles gloriosus . Dr. Johnson . in a ...
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Page 75 - 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 21 - 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 134 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 100 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 185 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Page 81 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 29 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Page 195 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 19 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool 3.
Page 90 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.