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... labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem ...
... labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be said " to lisp in numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem ...
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... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise some- times struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
... labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits , they likewise some- times struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often ...
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... labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are such mix'd engines found , As hands of double office : for the ground We till with them , and them to heaven we raise : Who prayerless labours , or , without ...
... labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are such mix'd engines found , As hands of double office : for the ground We till with them , and them to heaven we raise : Who prayerless labours , or , without ...
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... labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way . Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I were old ...
... labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way . Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : I have lov'd , and got , and told ; But should I love , get , tell , till I were old ...
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... labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embel- lished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was the first who imparted to Eng- lish numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode , and the gaiety of ...
... labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embel- lished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was the first who imparted to Eng- lish numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode , and the gaiety of ...
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Page 145 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Page 18 - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 35 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center 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' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 206 - At the moment in which he expired, he uttered, with an energy of voice, that expressed the most fervent devotion, two lines of his own version of Dies Ira; : My God, my father, and my friend, Do not forsake me in my end.
Page 144 - It is not to be considered as the effusion of real passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions. Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.
Page 130 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 404 - Harmony, This universal Frame began; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring Atoms lay, And could not heave her head The tuneful Voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 145 - Among the flocks and copses and flowers appear the heathen deities, Jove and Phoebus, Neptune and jEolus, with a long train of mythological imagery, such as a college easily supplies. Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what has become of Lycidas, and how neither god can. tell. He who thus grieves will excite...
Page 158 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others - the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 94 - I had taken two degrees, as the manner is, signified many ways how much better it would content them that I would stay ; as by many letters full of kindness and loving respect, both before that time and long after, I was assured of their singular good affection towards me.