The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Volumen9Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
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... nature moves , and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose , for that malignant dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . IN NINE VOLUMES . POPE . VOL . IX . London : Printed for Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees ...
... nature moves , and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose , for that malignant dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . IN NINE VOLUMES . POPE . VOL . IX . London : Printed for Cadell and Davies ; Longman , Hurst , Rees ...
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... nature . enemy But let the reader observe , in Milton's Paradise Lost , with that exquisite fancy and skill this common metaphor and simile , and the moral con- tained in them , are extended and wrought up into one of the most beautiful ...
... nature . enemy But let the reader observe , in Milton's Paradise Lost , with that exquisite fancy and skill this common metaphor and simile , and the moral con- tained in them , are extended and wrought up into one of the most beautiful ...
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... nature , and supposes even impossibilities ; as that a golden bough should grow among the common branches of a tree , as Virgil has described it in the Sixth Book of his Eneis . Allegory is indeed the Fairy Land of poetry , peopled by ...
... nature , and supposes even impossibilities ; as that a golden bough should grow among the common branches of a tree , as Virgil has described it in the Sixth Book of his Eneis . Allegory is indeed the Fairy Land of poetry , peopled by ...
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... beings , creatures of the poet's brain , and actions sur prising , and without the bounds of probability or nature . In works of this kind it is impossible 5 for the reader to rest in the literal sense ON ALLEGORICAL POETRY . 13.
... beings , creatures of the poet's brain , and actions sur prising , and without the bounds of probability or nature . In works of this kind it is impossible 5 for the reader to rest in the literal sense ON ALLEGORICAL POETRY . 13.
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... nature and probability ; but the story of Dido in the Eneis , though copied from the Circe and Calypso , and formed ... natural , and , excepting the distance of time , which the criticks have noted between the real Eneas and Dido , ( a ...
... nature and probability ; but the story of Dido in the Eneis , though copied from the Circe and Calypso , and formed ... natural , and , excepting the distance of time , which the criticks have noted between the real Eneas and Dido , ( a ...
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action adventures Æneas Allegory ancient Androgeus appear Archimago Ariosto arms beast beauties Book called Canto castle character Chaucer chivalry classick court criticks death delight DENHAM doth enchantments English epick poem ev'ry eyes fable Faerie Queene Fairy Land falconry fall fame fancy fate fear fiction fire friends give gods Gothick hand hath Henry VII hero Homer honour Hughes Iliad images imagination imitation invention Italian kind king Arthur knights lady learned manner mind moral Morte d'Arthur Nature noble numbers Orlando Furioso pleasure poet poetical poetry pow'r Prince Arthur Pyrrhus QUESTING BEAST reader reason reign rhyme romance romantick round table Scipio seems sense sometimes speak Spenser stanza story supposed Talus Tasso taste thee things thou thought thro tion translated Troy truth Upton Uther Pendragon verse Virgil virtues WARTON wise words writing youth
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Página v - And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 135 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Página 135 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Página 5 - The mower's hopes nor mock the ploughman's toil, But God-like his unwearied bounty flows, First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his banks...
Página ix - Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear.
Página 84 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Página 136 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Página 12 - Three kingdoms' wonder, and three kingdoms' fear. While single he stood forth, and seem'd, although Each had an army, as an equal foe ; Such was his force of eloquence to make The hearers more concern'd than he that spake : Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he ; So did he move our passions, some were known To wish, for the defence, the crime their own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
Página 14 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 65 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit" be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...