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Page 412
... popular in the language ) —all these bear ample testimony to Cowley's ingenuity , taste , and scholarship . And there is one point at least at which Cowley may be regarded as an innovator . The Pindaric Odes which he professed to ...
... popular in the language ) —all these bear ample testimony to Cowley's ingenuity , taste , and scholarship . And there is one point at least at which Cowley may be regarded as an innovator . The Pindaric Odes which he professed to ...
Page 414
... popular side , but he was at heart a courtier and a conservative ; he looked upon things with a carnal eye and only wanted to be left to enjoy his wealth and popularity in peace . But like Sir William Temple he was vain , and he wanted ...
... popular side , but he was at heart a courtier and a conservative ; he looked upon things with a carnal eye and only wanted to be left to enjoy his wealth and popularity in peace . But like Sir William Temple he was vain , and he wanted ...
Page 409
... popular English poet of his time , was born in Fleet Street , near Chancery Lane , in 1618 , and was the posthumous son of a respectable stationer ( and grocer ) . His precocity was exceptional , and he may be truly said to have lisped ...
... popular English poet of his time , was born in Fleet Street , near Chancery Lane , in 1618 , and was the posthumous son of a respectable stationer ( and grocer ) . His precocity was exceptional , and he may be truly said to have lisped ...
Page 410
... popular collection of amorous poems known as The Mistress ap- peared at London in 1647. In 1656 he was discovered in London and was for a short time imprisoned ; but in the same year he found means to issue a folio collection of his ...
... popular collection of amorous poems known as The Mistress ap- peared at London in 1647. In 1656 he was discovered in London and was for a short time imprisoned ; but in the same year he found means to issue a folio collection of his ...
Page 411
... popular of poets . He was rightly considered on the whole as a continuator of the tradition of Donne , but of a Donne , it must be admitted , greatly diluted , while at the same time modernised and French polished . Frostwork and silver ...
... popular of poets . He was rightly considered on the whole as a continuator of the tradition of Donne , but of a Donne , it must be admitted , greatly diluted , while at the same time modernised and French polished . Frostwork and silver ...
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Page 860 - 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 429 - 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 709 - 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 758 - 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 442 - 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 411 - 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 412 - 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.
Page 758 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could...
Page 707 - 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 861 - 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.