prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets1781 |
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... told by Pope ; who is more willing , as I have heard ob- ferved , to fhew what his father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade ; but whether in a fhop or on the Exchange has never been difcovered . Both ...
... told by Pope ; who is more willing , as I have heard ob- ferved , to fhew what his father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade ; but whether in a fhop or on the Exchange has never been difcovered . Both ...
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... told him , the English poets had hitherto neglected , and which therefore was left to him as a bafis of fame ; and , being delighted with rural poems , re- commended to him to write a paftoral comedy , like those which are read fo ...
... told him , the English poets had hitherto neglected , and which therefore was left to him as a bafis of fame ; and , being delighted with rural poems , re- commended to him to write a paftoral comedy , like those which are read fo ...
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... - ment ; and having luckily contrived to borrow his machinery from the Roficru- cians , imparted the fcheme with which his head was teeming to Addison , who told C 4 him him that his work , as it ftood , was POPE . 39.
... - ment ; and having luckily contrived to borrow his machinery from the Roficru- cians , imparted the fcheme with which his head was teeming to Addison , who told C 4 him him that his work , as it ftood , was POPE . 39.
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... of that tender kind arofe , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perufal of Prior's Nut- brown Maid . How much he has fur- paffed Prior's work it is not neceffary to to mention , when perhaps it may be faid with POPE . 43.
... of that tender kind arofe , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perufal of Prior's Nut- brown Maid . How much he has fur- paffed Prior's work it is not neceffary to to mention , when perhaps it may be faid with POPE . 43.
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... told . The lines relating to the Peace confefs their own date . It is dedicated to Lord Lanfdown , who was then high in repu- tation and influence among the Tories ; and it is faid that the conclufion of the poem gave great pain to ...
... told . The lines relating to the Peace confefs their own date . It is dedicated to Lord Lanfdown , who was then high in repu- tation and influence among the Tories ; and it is faid that the conclufion of the poem gave great pain to ...
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Страница 268 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Страница 329 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Страница 110 - Here he planted the vines and the quincunx which his verses mention; and being under the necessity of making a subterraneous passage to a garden on the other side of the road, he adorned it with fossile bodies, and dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded.
Страница 268 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Страница 269 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.
Страница 262 - He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master.
Страница 264 - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Страница 222 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
Страница 267 - Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. * Poetry was not the...
Страница 9 - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his Ode on Solitude...