A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780)Macmillan Company, 1897 - 427 sider |
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Side vi
... critic in attempting to form a general survey of the whole , is that of proportion . The vast landmarks of the preceding century , the colossal Shake- speares and Bacons and Miltons , are absent here ; the general level of merit is much ...
... critic in attempting to form a general survey of the whole , is that of proportion . The vast landmarks of the preceding century , the colossal Shake- speares and Bacons and Miltons , are absent here ; the general level of merit is much ...
Side vii
Edmund Gosse. PREFACE vii duty of a general critic of literature is to resist the attraction of personal favourites . In ... critics , I have been slow to suppose that I could be right and they wrong . But it was absolutely essential that ...
Edmund Gosse. PREFACE vii duty of a general critic of literature is to resist the attraction of personal favourites . In ... critics , I have been slow to suppose that I could be right and they wrong . But it was absolutely essential that ...
Side viii
... critics of the specialist's own profession , and to treat his publi- cations mainly from the point of view of style . TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE , November 1888 . CONTENTS CHAP . I. POETRY AFTER THE RESTORATION II . viii PREFACE.
... critics of the specialist's own profession , and to treat his publi- cations mainly from the point of view of style . TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE , November 1888 . CONTENTS CHAP . I. POETRY AFTER THE RESTORATION II . viii PREFACE.
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... critics of the succeeding age saw a direct relation between Waller and Sir John Denham ( 1615-1668 ) , which has , until lately , been again obscured . Dryden said , in 1664 , " The excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known ...
... critics of the succeeding age saw a direct relation between Waller and Sir John Denham ( 1615-1668 ) , which has , until lately , been again obscured . Dryden said , in 1664 , " The excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known ...
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... criticism strangely differs . He had a very high ideal of the poetic vocation . He is wonderfully felicitous sometimes in the structure of single lines , and those who are able to appreciate poetry of the class of which France has ...
... criticism strangely differs . He had a very high ideal of the poetic vocation . He is wonderfully felicitous sometimes in the structure of single lines , and those who are able to appreciate poetry of the class of which France has ...
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Side 289 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Side 233 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Side 294 - He had mingled with the gay world, without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then pious. " His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find. Such was his amplitude of learning, and such...
Side 223 - The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life. Nature, attend ! Join, every living soul, Beneath the spacious temple of the sky, In adoration join ; and, ardent, raise One general song ! To Him, ye vocal gales...
Side 290 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Side 294 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Side 340 - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't • As he comes up the stair, — And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi...
Side 289 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour.
Side 236 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Side 322 - Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.