The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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Page 81
... whole fyftem of life , while the Theocracy was yet vifible , has an ap- pearance fo different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually confiders it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
... whole fyftem of life , while the Theocracy was yet vifible , has an ap- pearance fo different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually confiders it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
Page 86
... whole work is very imperfectly fhewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or fhewn but upon few occafions , the full extent and the nice difcriminations ...
... whole work is very imperfectly fhewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or fhewn but upon few occafions , the full extent and the nice difcriminations ...
Page 98
... whole earth his dreaded name shall found , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet bid him go fecurely , when he fends ; ' Tis Saul that is his foe , and we his friends . The The man who has ...
... whole earth his dreaded name shall found , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet bid him go fecurely , when he fends ; ' Tis Saul that is his foe , and we his friends . The The man who has ...
Page 101
... whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and , as it runs , for ever shall run or Cowley was , I believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroick of ten fyllables ; and from him ...
... whole stream that stopp'd him shall be gone , Which runs , and , as it runs , for ever shall run or Cowley was , I believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroick of ten fyllables ; and from him ...
Page 129
... cannot now be known , but the effect appears in his writings . His fcheme of education , infcribed to Hartlib , fuperfedes all academical inftruc- VOL . I. K inftruction , being intended to comprise the whole time which MILTON . 129.
... cannot now be known , but the effect appears in his writings . His fcheme of education , infcribed to Hartlib , fuperfedes all academical inftruc- VOL . I. K inftruction , being intended to comprise the whole time which MILTON . 129.
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Æneid againſt almoſt Anacreon anſwered appears becauſe cenfured compofitions Comus confeffed confidered converfation Cowley deferve defign defire delight diſcovered Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh expreffed expreffion fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems feldom fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure greateſt Hiftory himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras itſelf King known laft laſt Latin learning leaſt lefs Lord Lord Conway mafter Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never NIHIL numbers obfervation occafion paffage paffed paffion Paradife Loft parliament perfons perhaps Philips Pindar pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent preferved profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſe reafon reprefented rhyme ſeems ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought tion tranflation underſtanding univerfity uſe verfe verfification verſes Waller whofe whoſe write