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... regard to modern poetry , when we are looking at any question connected with its history , we ought to bear in mind that we did not begin from the beginning , and that , with very few exceptions , we had not to hew our materials out of ...
... regard to modern poetry , when we are looking at any question connected with its history , we ought to bear in mind that we did not begin from the beginning , and that , with very few exceptions , we had not to hew our materials out of ...
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... regard to any point except its fitting the verse , and not disturbing its mono- tonous smoothness . If it had ever been applied to the object by any poet , if it ever could be applied to it under any circumstances , this was enough : no ...
... regard to any point except its fitting the verse , and not disturbing its mono- tonous smoothness . If it had ever been applied to the object by any poet , if it ever could be applied to it under any circumstances , this was enough : no ...
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... regard to Mr. Todd however , we see from other places that he too has an itching for explaining poetry by the help of personal anecdotes . Thus he suggests that the two lines in the description of the castle in the Allegre , - " Where ...
... regard to Mr. Todd however , we see from other places that he too has an itching for explaining poetry by the help of personal anecdotes . Thus he suggests that the two lines in the description of the castle in the Allegre , - " Where ...
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... claimed by each man as his own , we are apt to forget this , and to regard it as all our own , as sprung , like Minerva , full - grown out of our heads ; for this among other reasons , that , when we are 62 GUESSES AT TRUTH .
... claimed by each man as his own , we are apt to forget this , and to regard it as all our own , as sprung , like Minerva , full - grown out of our heads ; for this among other reasons , that , when we are 62 GUESSES AT TRUTH .
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... regard to the destinies of mankind . At the fit time the fit instrument shews itself . If it comes before its time , it is still - born : man knows not what to do with it ; and it wastes away . But when the mind and heart and spirit of ...
... regard to the destinies of mankind . At the fit time the fit instrument shews itself . If it comes before its time , it is still - born : man knows not what to do with it ; and it wastes away . But when the mind and heart and spirit of ...
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Стр. 251 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Стр. 348 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Стр. 235 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Стр. 86 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Стр. 211 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 372 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Стр. 23 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Стр. 484 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Стр. 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Стр. 368 - ... forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance...