. Class book of poetry: consisting of selections from distinguished English and American poets, from Chaucer to Tennyson. The whole arranged in chronological order, with biographical and critical remarks . uliar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could neer be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was le
. Class book of poetry: consisting of selections from distinguished English and American poets, from Chaucer to Tennyson. The whole arranged in chronological order, with biographical and critical remarks . uliar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert: Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could neer be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. All for are but children of a larger growth;Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,And full as craving too, and full as vaiu ;And yet the soul shut up in her dark room,Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;But like a mole in earth, busy and blind,Works all her folly up, and casts it outwardTo the worlds open view. On Milton. Three poets, in three distant ages born,Greece, Italy, and England did first in loftiness of thought surpassed,The next in majesty ; in both the force of nature could no further go:To make a third, she joined the other PRIOR. M^HE reign of Queen Anne was at one time styled the-L Augustan age of English literature. It was adorned withthe names of Pope, Addison, Swift, and a host of writers ofscarcely inferior renown, who introduced into the languagea degree of correctness and poli^li wliich it had not heforereceived. The writers of that clay, however, are not held inas high estimation as they were half a century since. Themost distinguished critics of the present century have givena decided preference to the authors preceding the Kestora-tion, as possessing greater boldness, originality, and , the early part of the eighteenth centurj^ must be re-garded as the time when the language reached its maturity ;and although the authors just named may not stand on thesame platform with Shakespear
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