Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical PrefacesJohn Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820 - 807 pagine "The object of this work, which is entirely new, is to comprise, within a single volume, a chronological series of our classical poets, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, without mutilation or abridgment, with biographical and critical notices of their authors. The contents of this volume are so comprehensive, that few poems, it is believed, are omitted, except such as are of secondary merit, or unsuited to the perusal of youth" -- Page [i]. |
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Pagina 36
... reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful : yet he pleas'd the ear , And with persuasive accent thus began . 39 " I should be much for open ...
... reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful : yet he pleas'd the ear , And with persuasive accent thus began . 39 " I should be much for open ...
Pagina 44
... reason ( reason also is choice ) Useless and vain , of freedom both despoil'd , Made passive both , had serv'd necessity , Not me ? They therefore , as to right belong'd , So were created , nor can justly accuse Their maker , or their ...
... reason ( reason also is choice ) Useless and vain , of freedom both despoil'd , Made passive both , had serv'd necessity , Not me ? They therefore , as to right belong'd , So were created , nor can justly accuse Their maker , or their ...
Pagina 58
... Reason as chief ; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things , Which the five watchful senses represent , She forms imaginations , aery shapes , Which Reason , joining or disjoining , frames All what we affirm or ...
... Reason as chief ; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things , Which the five watchful senses represent , She forms imaginations , aery shapes , Which Reason , joining or disjoining , frames All what we affirm or ...
Pagina 61
... Reason receives , and reason is her being , Discursive , or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours , the latter most is ours , Differing but in degree , of kind the same . Wonder not then , what God for you saw good If I refuse not , but ...
... Reason receives , and reason is her being , Discursive , or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours , the latter most is ours , Differing but in degree , of kind the same . Wonder not then , what God for you saw good If I refuse not , but ...
Pagina 64
... reason for their law refuse , Right reason for their law , and for their king Messiah , who by right of merit reigns . Go , Michael , of celestial armies prince , And thou , in military prowess next , Gabriël , lead forth to battle ...
... reason for their law refuse , Right reason for their law , and for their king Messiah , who by right of merit reigns . Go , Michael , of celestial armies prince , And thou , in military prowess next , Gabriël , lead forth to battle ...
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