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... less vivid , though not of course complete and impartial , of the age to which he belongs , of the men , their manners , fashions , tastes , and prevalent opinions . Thus they have a historical as well as a literary and an ethical value ...
... less vivid , though not of course complete and impartial , of the age to which he belongs , of the men , their manners , fashions , tastes , and prevalent opinions . Thus they have a historical as well as a literary and an ethical value ...
Page xxii
... less profoundly despairing . He satirizes evil rather by exposing it and contrasting it with good , than by vehemently denouncing it . The colours of the pictures are sombre , and the gloom is almost overwhelming , but still it is ...
... less profoundly despairing . He satirizes evil rather by exposing it and contrasting it with good , than by vehemently denouncing it . The colours of the pictures are sombre , and the gloom is almost overwhelming , but still it is ...
Page xxiv
... hand , would have been more vigorous had he been less diffuse , and used the pruning - knife more unsparingly . His finest satiric pictures often lose their point by verbosity and tediousness . Brevity is the xxiv DUNBAR AND LYNDSAY .
... hand , would have been more vigorous had he been less diffuse , and used the pruning - knife more unsparingly . His finest satiric pictures often lose their point by verbosity and tediousness . Brevity is the xxiv DUNBAR AND LYNDSAY .
Page xxix
... less elegance and ease in versification . In Charles Fitz - geoffrey's Affania , a set of Latin epigrams , printed at Oxford in 1601 , Marston is complimented as the " Second English Satirist " , or rather as dividing the palm of ...
... less elegance and ease in versification . In Charles Fitz - geoffrey's Affania , a set of Latin epigrams , printed at Oxford in 1601 , Marston is complimented as the " Second English Satirist " , or rather as dividing the palm of ...
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... less eclipse , but its character underwent change . It became to a large extent a medium for sectarian bitterness . It lost its catholicity , and de- generated in great measure into the instrument of partisan antagonism , and a means of ...
... less eclipse , but its character underwent change . It became to a large extent a medium for sectarian bitterness . It lost its catholicity , and de- generated in great measure into the instrument of partisan antagonism , and a means of ...
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Page 128 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar Toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 182 - Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's...
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Page 150 - Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal...
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Page 36 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 51 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 125 - Proud as Apollo on his forked hill, Sate full-blown Bufo puffd by ev'ry quill; Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
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