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Page 410
... original principles . Misanthropy as far as so gentle a nature could cherish it naturally strength- ened his love of retirement , and increased that passion for a country life which breathes in the fancy of his 410 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH ...
... original principles . Misanthropy as far as so gentle a nature could cherish it naturally strength- ened his love of retirement , and increased that passion for a country life which breathes in the fancy of his 410 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH ...
Page 413
... original verses ; his songs are irregular , and some of the best , such as his Advice to an Old Man about to Marry , exceedingly free . Flatman's flatteries have scarcely succeeded in retrieving " the matchless Orinda " from oblivion ...
... original verses ; his songs are irregular , and some of the best , such as his Advice to an Old Man about to Marry , exceedingly free . Flatman's flatteries have scarcely succeeded in retrieving " the matchless Orinda " from oblivion ...
Page 417
... Original Poems of 1651 ( reprinted by Brydges 1814 ) , verses of great smoothness and no little variety of metre . But they are occasional poems without an occasion upon themes hopelessly worn and conventional . Another poet and ...
... Original Poems of 1651 ( reprinted by Brydges 1814 ) , verses of great smoothness and no little variety of metre . But they are occasional poems without an occasion upon themes hopelessly worn and conventional . Another poet and ...
Page 432
... original copy of it , together with the other minor poems of the author in the library of Trinity , kept like some treasure to be proud of . I wish they had thrown them in the Cam , or sent them after the later cantos of Spenser into ...
... original copy of it , together with the other minor poems of the author in the library of Trinity , kept like some treasure to be proud of . I wish they had thrown them in the Cam , or sent them after the later cantos of Spenser into ...
Page 450
... original elements in poetry of which we can form any conception . The subject - matter of these exercises was of comparatively little importance - the execution was the thing . Such work is in poetry that which mosaic is in the domain ...
... original elements in poetry of which we can form any conception . The subject - matter of these exercises was of comparatively little importance - the execution was the thing . Such work is in poetry that which mosaic is in the domain ...
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Page 868 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 437 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 715 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 765 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 448 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 419 - 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 420 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
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Page 713 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 869 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.