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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... pieces , which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his verfification , and in the smoothness ...
... pieces , which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his verfification , and in the smoothness ...
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... pieces fhew , with fufficient evidence , his 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 ...
... pieces fhew , with fufficient evidence , his 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 ...
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... pieces of theirs as had cafually got abroad , there was added to them the Trea- tife of the Bathos , or the Art of Sinking in Poetry . It happened that in one chapter " of this piece the feveral species of bad po- ets were ranged in ...
... pieces of theirs as had cafually got abroad , there was added to them the Trea- tife of the Bathos , or the Art of Sinking in Poetry . It happened that in one chapter " of this piece the feveral species of bad po- ets were ranged in ...
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... pieces it is useless to settle the dates , as they had feldom much relation to the times , and per- haps had been long in his hands . This mode of imitation , in which the an- cients are familiarifed , by adapting their sen- timents to ...
... pieces it is useless to settle the dates , as they had feldom much relation to the times , and per- haps had been long in his hands . This mode of imitation , in which the an- cients are familiarifed , by adapting their sen- timents to ...
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... pieces very long in his hands , while he confidered and reconfidered them . The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with fuch regard to the times as might haften their publication , were the two fatires of Thirty ...
... pieces very long in his hands , while he confidered and reconfidered them . The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with fuch regard to the times as might haften their publication , were the two fatires of Thirty ...
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Addiſon addreffed afterwards againſt almoſt appear aſked becauſe beſt Bolingbroke cauſe cenfure character compofition confequence confiderable confidered criticiſm criticks deferves defign defire diſcovered Dryden Dunciad eaſily Edward Young Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph Eſſay fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fenfe fent fhall fhew fhort fhould firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed furely greateſt higheſt himſelf honour houſe Iliad increaſe kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters Lord Lyttelton Mallet maſter mind moſt muſt never Night Thoughts numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion perfons perfuaded perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon ſay ſcenes ſeems ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate ſtudy theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thouſand tion tranflation univerfally unkle uſed verfe verfion verſes whofe whoſe wiſh write written Young
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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.