The Life of William Cowper, Esq, Volume 2Otis, Broaders,, 1839 - Poets, English |
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Robert Southey. it in his version of the Iliad , should have rendered the Odyssey in couplets . Most of the numerous historical poems were in stanzas , the octave being generally preferred . Dray- ton , who had written his Barons ' Wars ...
Robert Southey. it in his version of the Iliad , should have rendered the Odyssey in couplets . Most of the numerous historical poems were in stanzas , the octave being generally preferred . Dray- ton , who had written his Barons ' Wars ...
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... rendering his far - fetched and elaborate conceits intelligible ; and cramp thoughts formed for themselves cramp expressions and disjointed verse . There was another incidental cause , less obvious , but not less certain in its effect ...
... rendering his far - fetched and elaborate conceits intelligible ; and cramp thoughts formed for themselves cramp expressions and disjointed verse . There was another incidental cause , less obvious , but not less certain in its effect ...
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... , that if there was in his own numbers any thing that deserved approba- tion , he had learned it all from Dryden . VOL . II . 3 known only by name where that work has been rendered РОРЕ . 25 No great poet produced in his school.
... , that if there was in his own numbers any thing that deserved approba- tion , he had learned it all from Dryden . VOL . II . 3 known only by name where that work has been rendered РОРЕ . 25 No great poet produced in his school.
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Robert Southey. known only by name where that work has been rendered popular by translation . Yet though the strain of this poem is stamped with the strongest mannerism , and both the matter and the manner are of a kind to affect the ...
Robert Southey. known only by name where that work has been rendered popular by translation . Yet though the strain of this poem is stamped with the strongest mannerism , and both the matter and the manner are of a kind to affect the ...
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... than usual rapidity in the neg- lect paid to his writings . " " We all remember , " says Dr. Warton , " when even a Churchill was more in vogue than a Ğray . " tolled . The first who rendered justice to his genius 42 LIFE OF COWPER .
... than usual rapidity in the neg- lect paid to his writings . " " We all remember , " says Dr. Warton , " when even a Churchill was more in vogue than a Ğray . " tolled . The first who rendered justice to his genius 42 LIFE OF COWPER .
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admiration affectionate ancholy appeared believe blank verse Bodham called Chaucer cheerful Churchill comfort cousin Cowper dear delight distress Dryden Dunciad Eartham East Dereham effect engaged English English poetry expect expressed favor feel felt friendship Gayhurst genius give happy Hayley Hayley's heart Homer honor hope Iliad JOHN NEWTON Johnson kind knew labor Lady Hesketh laudanum least less letter live Lord March 29 means melancholy metaphysical poet metre Milton mind morning nature never Newton night occasion Olney opinion perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Pope praise prayers present reason received rendered rhyme Romney says seems sensible spirits style suppose taste Teedon tell thee thing thou thought tion translation truth Unwin versification walk Weston WILLIAM HAYLEY wish words write written wrote Zachary Grey
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Page 102 - Goldsmith's Life of Parnell is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor materials ; for nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Page 160 - ... wings, I may record thy worth with honour due, In verse as musical as thou art true, And that immortalizes whom it sings. But thou hast little need. There is a book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light, On which the eyes of God not rarely look, A chronicle of actions just and bright ; There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine, And, since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.
Page 285 - Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary! But well thou play'dst the housewife's part, And all thy threads with magic art Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary!
Page 338 - That pitiless perforce, They left their outcast mate behind, And scudded still before the wind. Some succour yet they could afford; And, such as storms allow, The cask, the coop, the floated cord, Delayed not to bestow.
Page 47 - Gray told me with a good deal of acrimony,' writes Dr. Gregory, 'that the Elegy owed its popularity entirely to the subject, and that the public would have received it as well if it had been written in prose.
Page 158 - ... The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is the last object that I see at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning.
Page 56 - ... (in which respect however I do not think it altogether indefensible,) it may yet boast that the reflections are naturally suggested always by the preceding passage, and that, except the fifth book, which is rather of a political aspect, the whole has one tendency ; to discountenance the modern enthusiasm after a London life, and to recommend rural ease and leisure, as friendly to the cause of piety and virtue.
Page 20 - To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Page 86 - ... the vestibule, if you cast a look on either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present ; but he, poor fellow, is worn out with age, and promises to die before you can see him. On the right hand stands a cupboard, the work of the same author ; it was once a dove-cage, but I transformed it. Opposite to you stands a table, which I also made ; but a merciless servant having scrubbed it...
Page 343 - YE, who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents dignified by sacred zeal, Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just, Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England, exulting in his spotless fame, Ranks with her dearest sons his favourite name. Sense, fancy, wit, suffice not all to raise So clear a title to affection's praise : His highest honours to the heart belong ; His virtues form'd the magic of his song.