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... Nature could no farther go ; To make a third , she join'd the former two . One doubts whether Dryden really meant this , although he is said to have exclaimed on first reading Paradise Lost , " This man cuts us 1 The quotations are from ...
... Nature could no farther go ; To make a third , she join'd the former two . One doubts whether Dryden really meant this , although he is said to have exclaimed on first reading Paradise Lost , " This man cuts us 1 The quotations are from ...
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... nature . Thus it was that rime came to be excluded to a great extent from long , serious poems , and in this way tended to lose the admiration and even the respect of many thoughtful readers . By the more ardent champions of blank verse ...
... nature . Thus it was that rime came to be excluded to a great extent from long , serious poems , and in this way tended to lose the admiration and even the respect of many thoughtful readers . By the more ardent champions of blank verse ...
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... nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this fear , which , based as it was on the realization that there was no essential difference between the prose and much of the verse of the period , led to the creation of mechanical ...
... nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this fear , which , based as it was on the realization that there was no essential difference between the prose and much of the verse of the period , led to the creation of mechanical ...
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... Nature of Man ( Collection of Poems , 1718 , p . 193 ; cf. Good , p . 63 ) . His Pindaric Hymn to the Light of the World seems , particu- larly at the beginning , to attempt the lofty style and diction of Paradise Lost . change from the ...
... Nature of Man ( Collection of Poems , 1718 , p . 193 ; cf. Good , p . 63 ) . His Pindaric Hymn to the Light of the World seems , particu- larly at the beginning , to attempt the lofty style and diction of Paradise Lost . change from the ...
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... nature of his principal poem had not a little to do with the admiration he received . In the first sixty years after ... natural . . . . Rhimes . . . do but emasculate Heroick Verse , and give it an unnatural Softness . In Songs ...
... nature of his principal poem had not a little to do with the admiration he received . In the first sixty years after ... natural . . . . Rhimes . . . do but emasculate Heroick Verse , and give it an unnatural Softness . In Songs ...
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Page 185 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved; Nor uniformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...
Page 178 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 204 - She was a Goddess of the infant world ; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height: she would have ta'en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck ; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel.
Page 206 - I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Page 84 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.
Page 192 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With...
Page 588 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Page 230 - His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.
Page 597 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 81 - Their song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience.