Dedication of Examen poeticum. Discourse concerning the original and progress of satire. A parallel of poetry and painting. Dedication of the Aeneis. Translation of Virgil. Preface to the Fables. Notes. Appendices IndexClarendon Press, 1900 - Criticism |
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... world to do it for me . For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study ? why am 15 I grown old , in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? The same parts and application which have made me a 11 . B.
... world to do it for me . For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study ? why am 15 I grown old , in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? The same parts and application which have made me a 11 . B.
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... reason to believe , who am seemingly courted , and secretly undermined ; I think I shall be able to defend myself , when I am openly attacked ; and to 30 show , besides , that the Greek writers only gave us the rudiments of a stage ...
... reason to believe , who am seemingly courted , and secretly undermined ; I think I shall be able to defend myself , when I am openly attacked ; and to 30 show , besides , that the Greek writers only gave us the rudiments of a stage ...
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... reason which he gives for it ; but I suppose it is for fear of omitting any of his excellencies . Sure I am , that if it be a fault , ' tis 30 much more pardonable than that of those , who run into the other extreme of a literal and ...
... reason which he gives for it ; but I suppose it is for fear of omitting any of his excellencies . Sure I am , that if it be a fault , ' tis 30 much more pardonable than that of those , who run into the other extreme of a literal and ...
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... reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presump- tion to dedicate to your Lordship : a very unfinished 15 piece , I must confess , and which only can be excused by the little experience of the author , and the modesty ...
... reason of their opposite taste ; yet even then , I had the presump- tion to dedicate to your Lordship : a very unfinished 15 piece , I must confess , and which only can be excused by the little experience of the author , and the modesty ...
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... reason is plainly this , that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it , nor the graces of it ; 5 which is manifest in his Juvenilia , or verses written in his youth , where his rhyme is always constrained and ...
... reason is plainly this , that rhyme was not his talent ; he had neither the ease of doing it , nor the graces of it ; 5 which is manifest in his Juvenilia , or verses written in his youth , where his rhyme is always constrained and ...
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Page 272 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 247 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Page 280 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Page 258 - They who lived with him, and some time after him, thought it musical; and it continues so even in our judgment, if compared with the numbers of Lidgate and Gower, his contemporaries: there is the rude sweetness of a Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect.
Page 299 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 258 - Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace.
Page 296 - I have followed all the antique poets historicall: first Homere, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man...
Page 258 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Page 258 - Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her ; and there is a great difference of being poeta and nimis poeta,•* if we may believe Catullus, as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us ; but...
Page 262 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.