The Literature of Society, Volume 2Tinsley brothers, 1862 - Authors, English |
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... English . His style is boisterous and rough - hewn , his rhyme incorrigibly bad , and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill- sounding . ' Dryden then burlesques a poetic epistle of Settle's , Dryden's lines beginning— ' Great boy , thy ...
... English . His style is boisterous and rough - hewn , his rhyme incorrigibly bad , and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill- sounding . ' Dryden then burlesques a poetic epistle of Settle's , Dryden's lines beginning— ' Great boy , thy ...
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... English gentlemen's code of honour is doubtless much improved in our own boasted times , more especially within the last thirty years . Yet we blush to recall , that little more than thirty years ago , an incident too closely resembling ...
... English gentlemen's code of honour is doubtless much improved in our own boasted times , more especially within the last thirty years . Yet we blush to recall , that little more than thirty years ago , an incident too closely resembling ...
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... English , ) a headstrong , moody , murmuring race , ' became discontented . ' These Adam - wits , too fortunately free , Began to dream they wanted liberty . ' After describing the state of factions , and how they were suddenly excited ...
... English , ) a headstrong , moody , murmuring race , ' became discontented . ' These Adam - wits , too fortunately free , Began to dream they wanted liberty . ' After describing the state of factions , and how they were suddenly excited ...
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... English gentleman . ' One magnificent pile was , however , maintained by wealth and prudence . Knowle Park was still there , in yonder rich and favoured county , diversified and picturesque ; not hilly enough for its acclivities to ...
... English gentleman . ' One magnificent pile was , however , maintained by wealth and prudence . Knowle Park was still there , in yonder rich and favoured county , diversified and picturesque ; not hilly enough for its acclivities to ...
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... English scenery ? who are most caressed by the polished lord as he welcomes them into that hall , where , in his father's time , two hundred people or more were daily entertained ? Who the most often follow Buck- hurst , ' as he surveys ...
... English scenery ? who are most caressed by the polished lord as he welcomes them into that hall , where , in his father's time , two hundred people or more were daily entertained ? Who the most often follow Buck- hurst , ' as he surveys ...
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Page 80 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How...
Page 35 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 224 - The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair, A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair ; And thrice they twitch'd the diamond in her ear ; Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the foe drew near.
Page 32 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 225 - And pleas'd pursue its progress through the skies. This the beau monde shall from the Mall survey, And hail with music its propitious ray. This the blest lover shall for Venus take, And send up vows from Rosamonda's lake. This Partridge soon shall view in cloudless skies, When next he looks through Galileo's eyes; And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome.
Page 40 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 32 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 205 - Thus much may serve by way of proem: Proceed we therefore to our poem. The time is not remote, when I Must by the course of nature...
Page 35 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 223 - This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray ; Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey ; Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.