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... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty con- sciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great de ...
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty con- sciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great de ...
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... whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger bet- ter than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imper ...
... whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger bet- ter than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imper ...
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... the pathetic ; for they never attempted that compre- hension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sud- den astonishment , and the second rational admira- tion . 20 THE LIFE OF COWLEY .
... the pathetic ; for they never attempted that compre- hension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sud- den astonishment , and the second rational admira- tion . 20 THE LIFE OF COWLEY .
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... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A Coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and ...
... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A Coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and ...
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... whole ' Davideis ' is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read ...
... whole ' Davideis ' is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY Æneid Anacreon antiperistasis appear beauteous beauty BISHOP OF LINCOLN bless bless'd blood bold breast Brentford bright Chertsey Constantia Cowley Cowley's Davideis death delight divine Donne doth e'er earth eyes fair fame fate fear fire flame gentle gold GONDIBERT grief happy hast hath hear heart Heaven honour join'd king labour learned less light live lovers metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble nought numbers o'er Orinda Ovid peace Pharsalia Philetus Philocrates Pindar poems poesy poetical poetry poets praise Pyramus PYRAMUS AND THISBE rage sacred scarce shine sighs sight sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure tears Tereus thee thine things Thisbe thou dost thought twas Twill verse vex'd Virgil virtue weep Whilst wise write
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Page 24 - ... a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
Page 38 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 24 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before.
Page 282 - Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river thou dost glide. And with thy living stream through the close channels slide. But...
Page 189 - Moses thou (though spells and charms withstand) Hast brought them nobly home back to their Holy Land. Ah wretched we, poets of earth ! but thou Wert living the same poet which thou'rt now.
Page 26 - If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises; if the imagination is not always gratified, at least the powers of reflection and comparison are employed; and in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together, genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found, buried perhaps in grossness of expression, but useful to those who know their value; and such as, when they are expanded to perspicuity and polished to elegance, may give lustre to works which...
Page 182 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Page 24 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
Page 35 - That prayer and labour should cooperate, are thus taught by Donne: In none but us are such mix'd engines found, As hands of double office: for the ground We till with them; and them to heaven we raise: Who prayerless labours, or, without this, prays, Doth but one half, that's none.
Page 191 - Rather than thus our wills too strong for it. His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right...