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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... died at Wimpole , a seat of the earl of Oxford , on the eighteenth of September , 1721 , and was buried in Westminster ; where , on a monument , for which , as the " last piece of humari vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is ...
... died at Wimpole , a seat of the earl of Oxford , on the eighteenth of September , 1721 , and was buried in Westminster ; where , on a monument , for which , as the " last piece of humari vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is ...
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... died , soon after , Congreve testi- fied his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year , 1695 , his prolific pen produced Love for Love ...
... died , soon after , Congreve testi- fied his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year , 1695 , his prolific pen produced Love for Love ...
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... died , at his house in Surrey street in the Strand , January 29 , 1728-9 . Having lain in state in the Jerusalem chamber , he was buried in Westminster abbey , where a monu- ment is erected to his memory by Henrietta dutchess of Marl ...
... died , at his house in Surrey street in the Strand , January 29 , 1728-9 . Having lain in state in the Jerusalem chamber , he was buried in Westminster abbey , where a monu- ment is erected to his memory by Henrietta dutchess of Marl ...
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... of Nayland in Essex , the minister who at- tended his deathbed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , 44 LIFE OF BLACKMORE .
... of Nayland in Essex , the minister who at- tended his deathbed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , 44 LIFE OF BLACKMORE .
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... died in 1694 ; and his grave , in the churchyard of Stoke upon Trent , is distinguished by the fol lowing elegant Latin inscription from the pen of his son . H. S. E. JOANNES FENTON de Shelton antiquâ stirpe generosus ; juxta reliquias ...
... died in 1694 ; and his grave , in the churchyard of Stoke upon Trent , is distinguished by the fol lowing elegant Latin inscription from the pen of his son . H. S. E. JOANNES FENTON de Shelton antiquâ stirpe generosus ; juxta reliquias ...
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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.