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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... nature no thirster for blood . Prior was , a week after , committed to close custody , with orders that " no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the speaker . " When , two years after , an act of grace was passed ...
... nature no thirster for blood . Prior was , a week after , committed to close custody , with orders that " no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the speaker . " When , two years after , an act of grace was passed ...
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... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe , and trying to ...
... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe , and trying to ...
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... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phedra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen , the pedant has found his ...
... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phedra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen , the pedant has found his ...
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... nature . The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol a tame idiot , Bluff a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife a jealous puritan ; and ...
... nature . The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol a tame idiot , Bluff a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife a jealous puritan ; and ...
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... history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more sur- passes the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long continued controversy between Collier 24 LIFE OF CONGREVE .
... history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more sur- passes the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long continued controversy between Collier 24 LIFE OF CONGREVE .
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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.