Word: owning
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more than perhaps any other poet of equal endowment, he is great and surprising in passages and ejaculations. In these he loses himself, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, in an O, altitudo, where his muse is indeed a muse of fire, that can ascend, if not to the highest...
Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy...
If it be one of the baser consolations, it is also one of the most disheartening concomitants of long life, that we get used to everything. Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest,- the return of spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets. And...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this...