The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Waller. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 страница |
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... knowledge , by mak- ing himself acquainted with modern lan- guages ; and removed for a time to London , that he might study French and Italian , which , as he defired nothing more than to read them , were by diligent application foon ...
... knowledge , by mak- ing himself acquainted with modern lan- guages ; and removed for a time to London , that he might study French and Italian , which , as he defired nothing more than to read them , were by diligent application foon ...
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... knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily ima- gines that he fhall please others . Sir Wil- liam Trumbal , who had been ambaffador at Conftantinople , and secretary of state , when he retired from business , fixed ...
... knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily ima- gines that he fhall please others . Sir Wil- liam Trumbal , who had been ambaffador at Conftantinople , and secretary of state , when he retired from business , fixed ...
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... knowledge of Pope's Epistolary Pow- ers ; for his Letters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and fhe many years af- terwards fold them to Curll , who inferted them in a volume of his Mifcellanies . Walsh , a name yet preferved ...
... knowledge of Pope's Epistolary Pow- ers ; for his Letters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and fhe many years af- terwards fold them to Curll , who inferted them in a volume of his Mifcellanies . Walsh , a name yet preferved ...
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... knowledge too eager to be nice . In a mind like his , however , all the faculties were at once involuntarily improving . Judgement is forced upon us by experience . He that reads many books must compare one opinion or one style with ...
... knowledge too eager to be nice . In a mind like his , however , all the faculties were at once involuntarily improving . Judgement is forced upon us by experience . He that reads many books must compare one opinion or one style with ...
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Samuel Johnson. fuch acquaintance , with mankind , and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learn- ing , as are not often attained by the matureft age and longest experience . It was published about two years afterwards , and being ...
Samuel Johnson. fuch acquaintance , with mankind , and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learn- ing , as are not often attained by the matureft age and longest experience . It was published about two years afterwards , and being ...
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Страница 353 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Страница 171 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and 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.
Страница 120 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Страница 185 - Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long; The rough road then, returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient steps, for all was fairy ground.
Страница 485 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Страница 125 - 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 172 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Страница 55 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene, Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Страница 238 - Yet softer honours, and less noisy fame, Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : In whom a race, for courage fam'd and art, Ends in the milder merit of the heart : And, chiefs or sages long to Britain given, Pays the last tribute of a saint to Heaven.
Страница 291 - But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.