Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 pages |
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... fall very often ) it has , he says , so particular a grace , and is so aptly united to them , that the sudden smartness of the answer , and the ex- actness of the rhyme , set off the beauty of each other . But its greatest benefit of ...
... fall very often ) it has , he says , so particular a grace , and is so aptly united to them , that the sudden smartness of the answer , and the ex- actness of the rhyme , set off the beauty of each other . But its greatest benefit of ...
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... fall of waters which hindered them from hearing what they desired ; after which , having disengaged themselves from many vessels which rode at anchor in the Thames , and almost blocked up the passage towards Greenwich , they ordered the ...
... fall of waters which hindered them from hearing what they desired ; after which , having disengaged themselves from many vessels which rode at anchor in the Thames , and almost blocked up the passage towards Greenwich , they ordered the ...
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... falls into the middle of the next verse , or further off ; and he may often avail himself of the same advantages in ... fall , causes at first attention , at last drowsiness . Variety of cadence is the best rule , the greatest help to ...
... falls into the middle of the next verse , or further off ; and he may often avail himself of the same advantages in ... fall , causes at first attention , at last drowsiness . Variety of cadence is the best rule , the greatest help to ...
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... falling backwards to the ground in his resounding arms , and groaning out his soul in the bloody dust . The truth is , that when you are called upon to see and to hear within the mind , you rejoice in the capacities of seeing and ...
... falling backwards to the ground in his resounding arms , and groaning out his soul in the bloody dust . The truth is , that when you are called upon to see and to hear within the mind , you rejoice in the capacities of seeing and ...
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... falling after him into a carelessness , and , as I may call it , a lethargy of thought for whole scenes together . " Shakspeare lethargic - comatose ! Sir Walter's admiration of " glorious John " was so much part of his very nature ...
... falling after him into a carelessness , and , as I may call it , a lethargy of thought for whole scenes together . " Shakspeare lethargic - comatose ! Sir Walter's admiration of " glorious John " was so much part of his very nature ...
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Page 299 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 99 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Page 57 - You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Page 57 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Page 102 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 189 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 267 - So spake the Son : but Satan, with his Powers, Far was advanced on winged speed : an host Innumerable as the stars of night; Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Page 101 - Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Page 70 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 37 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.