Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... metre , so horribly out of tune with what had gone before ! Mephistopheles is the speaker . He has been standing behind , looking about him and listening with a sarcastic air to the song of the Archangels ; and when they have done he ...
... metre , so horribly out of tune with what had gone before ! Mephistopheles is the speaker . He has been standing behind , looking about him and listening with a sarcastic air to the song of the Archangels ; and when they have done he ...
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... metre and another strain of politics , the conclu- sion of the poem addressed to Charles : — " The discontented now are only they Whose crimes before did your just cause betray : Of those your edicts some reclaim from sin , But most ...
... metre and another strain of politics , the conclu- sion of the poem addressed to Charles : — " The discontented now are only they Whose crimes before did your just cause betray : Of those your edicts some reclaim from sin , But most ...
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... metre without snapping , and , in doing so , to wind it about as many odd allu- sions to the real world as possible , and introduce as many verbal quibbles as possible , was the aim of the " metaphysical poets . " Some of them , like ...
... metre without snapping , and , in doing so , to wind it about as many odd allu- sions to the real world as possible , and introduce as many verbal quibbles as possible , was the aim of the " metaphysical poets . " Some of them , like ...
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... metre . " Well- placing of words , for the sweetness of pronunciation , was not known till Mr. Waller introduced it , " is a deliberate state- ment of Dryden himself , meant to apply especially to verse . Now , here , again , we have to ...
... metre . " Well- placing of words , for the sweetness of pronunciation , was not known till Mr. Waller introduced it , " is a deliberate state- ment of Dryden himself , meant to apply especially to verse . Now , here , again , we have to ...
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... metre . His strength lies in passages and weighty interspersed lines , not in whole poems . Even in Dryden's lifetime this complaint was made . It was hinted at in The Rehearsal ; Rochester speaks of Dryden's " slattern muse ; and ...
... metre . His strength lies in passages and weighty interspersed lines , not in whole poems . Even in Dryden's lifetime this complaint was made . It was hinted at in The Rehearsal ; Rochester speaks of Dryden's " slattern muse ; and ...
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
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Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...