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... means enough of in- formation , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his ...
... means enough of in- formation , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his ...
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... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dis- tinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former ob ...
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dis- tinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former ob ...
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... means in England could write Latin , and that man of knowing the true author . Du Moulin was now in great danger ; but Milton's pride ope- rated against his malignity ; and both he and nis friends were more willing that Du Moulin should ...
... means in England could write Latin , and that man of knowing the true author . Du Moulin was now in great danger ; but Milton's pride ope- rated against his malignity ; and both he and nis friends were more willing that Du Moulin should ...
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... mean while , the Chorus entertains the stage , and is informed by some angel the manner of the fall . Here the Chorus ... Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . " Oliver was now dead , Richard was constrained to resign : the ...
... mean while , the Chorus entertains the stage , and is informed by some angel the manner of the fall . Here the Chorus ... Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . " Oliver was now dead , Richard was constrained to resign : the ...
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... means wealthy , wanted a domestic companion and at- It was told before by A. Wood , in Ath . Oxon , vol . ii . p . 412 , 2d edit.-C. That Milton saved Davenant is attested by Aubrey and by Wood from him ; but none of them say that Da ...
... means wealthy , wanted a domestic companion and at- It was told before by A. Wood , in Ath . Oxon , vol . ii . p . 412 , 2d edit.-C. That Milton saved Davenant is attested by Aubrey and by Wood from him ; but none of them say that Da ...
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Page 275 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Page 279 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 96 - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Page 148 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 8 - ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but 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 never been said before.
Page 21 - Cooper's Hill is the work that confers upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection, or incidental meditation.
Page 46 - He was naturally a thinker for himself, confident of his own abilities, and disdainful of help or hinderance : he did not refuse admission to the thoughts or images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Page 211 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 252 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply. If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls...
Page 111 - Tis not enough that Aristotle has said so, for Aristotle drew his models of tragedy from Sophocles and Euripides ; and, if he had seen ours, might have changed his mind.