The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... must be natu- rally defired ; but curiofity must be contented with con- fufed , imperfect , and fometimes improbable intelli- gence . Pope , finding little advantage from external help , refolved thenceforward to direct himself , and at ...
... must be natu- rally defired ; but curiofity must be contented with con- fufed , imperfect , and fometimes improbable intelli- gence . Pope , finding little advantage from external help , refolved thenceforward to direct himself , and at ...
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... must have been at this time , if he had no help , a confiderable proficient in the Latin tongue . By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his ...
... must have been at this time , if he had no help , a confiderable proficient in the Latin tongue . By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his ...
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... must compare one opinion or one style with another ; and when he com- pares , muft neceffarily distinguish , reject , and prefer . But the account given by himself of his studies was , that from fourteen to twenty he read only for ...
... must compare one opinion or one style with another ; and when he com- pares , muft neceffarily distinguish , reject , and prefer . But the account given by himself of his studies was , that from fourteen to twenty he read only for ...
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... must have felt Pope's force of genius much more from many other parts of his works . The pain that Addifon might feel it is not likely that he would confefs ; and it is certain that he fo well fuppreffed his difcontent , that Pope now ...
... must have felt Pope's force of genius much more from many other parts of his works . The pain that Addifon might feel it is not likely that he would confefs ; and it is certain that he fo well fuppreffed his difcontent , that Pope now ...
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... must have begun to paint ear- lier ; for Betterton was now dead . Pope's ambition of this new art produced fome encomiaftick verfes to Jervas , which certainly fhew his power as a poet ; but I have been told that they betray his ...
... must have begun to paint ear- lier ; for Betterton was now dead . Pope's ambition of this new art produced fome encomiaftick verfes to Jervas , which certainly fhew his power as a poet ; but I have been told that they betray his ...
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Страница 91 - 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 109 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Страница 308 - Yet even these bones," are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
Страница 206 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Страница 309 - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.
Страница 109 - 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 45 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Страница 80 - Man, of which he has given this account to Dr. Swift. 'March 25, 1736. 'If ever I write any more Epistles in verse, one of them shall be addressed to you. I have long concerted it, and begun it; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to be, that is to say, more finished than any of the rest. The subject is large, and will divide into four Epistles, which naturally follow the Essay on Man, viz.
Страница 110 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant.
Страница 154 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.