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... poet - Poetry the highest aim of human intellect -- Milton's youthful genius - Study of Hebrew poetry - Latin poem to his father - The rural home - Poetic genius improved by study - Visits to the London theatres - Thoughtful culture of ...
... poet - Poetry the highest aim of human intellect -- Milton's youthful genius - Study of Hebrew poetry - Latin poem to his father - The rural home - Poetic genius improved by study - Visits to the London theatres - Thoughtful culture of ...
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... poetic culture - Richard Lovelace- " To Althea , from prison " -George Wither - His character - His address to his Muse - A tribute to Wither's memory Page 144 LECTURE VIII . THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION : DRYDEN . Ambiguities in the ...
... poetic culture - Richard Lovelace- " To Althea , from prison " -George Wither - His character - His address to his Muse - A tribute to Wither's memory Page 144 LECTURE VIII . THE AGE OF THE RESTORATION : DRYDEN . Ambiguities in the ...
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... POETS ) . Monotony of Pope's verse - The revival of a truer spirit of Poetry -- Chatterton -Merit of Cowper - Dr . Johnson's literary dictatorship - His " Lives of the Poets " -Sir Egerton Brydges's criticism on them - Cowper's judgment ...
... POETS ) . Monotony of Pope's verse - The revival of a truer spirit of Poetry -- Chatterton -Merit of Cowper - Dr . Johnson's literary dictatorship - His " Lives of the Poets " -Sir Egerton Brydges's criticism on them - Cowper's judgment ...
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... poets is voluminous . The mere enumera- tion of them and of their writings - if it were in my power to give- would consume the time which will be at my command . In a course , therefore , of lectures limited in number as well as length ...
... poets is voluminous . The mere enumera- tion of them and of their writings - if it were in my power to give- would consume the time which will be at my command . In a course , therefore , of lectures limited in number as well as length ...
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... poet , than which reverend name Nothing can more adorn humanity . " The reproach of the debasement of poetic inspiration to unworthy or corrupt uses is thus repelled by a later poet , when he proclaims that " Deathless powers to verse ...
... poet , than which reverend name Nothing can more adorn humanity . " The reproach of the debasement of poetic inspiration to unworthy or corrupt uses is thus repelled by a later poet , when he proclaims that " Deathless powers to verse ...
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Page 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Page 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 406 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.