Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 |
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... allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon ...
... allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon ...
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... allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically , and finds the art of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with close- This is a skill which Pope might have condescended to ...
... allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically , and finds the art of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with close- This is a skill which Pope might have condescended to ...
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... allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the ballad opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the expe ...
... allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the ballad opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the expe ...
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... allowed all that it claims ; it is sprightly , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn ; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away . An honest blacksmith might have ...
... allowed all that it claims ; it is sprightly , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn ; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away . An honest blacksmith might have ...
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... allowed . But by a critic of a later generation , who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not show him to have had much comprehension from ...
... allowed . But by a critic of a later generation , who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not show him to have had much comprehension from ...
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Страница 289 - 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. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Страница 312 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Страница 439 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Страница 314 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Страница 122 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
Страница 29 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Страница 279 - Age," and are now the friendships only of children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they do not shun a distinct and continued view ; and certainly, what we hide from h 3 ourselves we do not shew to our friends.
Страница 259 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified.
Страница 289 - 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 203 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.