prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets1781 |
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... some remarks , of which the most reasonable is , that fome of the lines re- prefent motion as exhibited by fculpture . Of the Epiftle from Eloifa to Abelard , I do not know the date . His firft incli- nation to attempt a compofition of ...
... some remarks , of which the most reasonable is , that fome of the lines re- prefent motion as exhibited by fculpture . Of the Epiftle from Eloifa to Abelard , I do not know the date . His firft incli- nation to attempt a compofition of ...
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... fold as copies printed for the fubfcribers . Lintot printed some on royal paper in Folio for two guineas a volume ; but of this experiment he repented , and his 7 fon fon fold copies of the first volume with all their POPE .
... fold as copies printed for the fubfcribers . Lintot printed some on royal paper in Folio for two guineas a volume ; but of this experiment he repented , and his 7 fon fon fold copies of the first volume with all their POPE .
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... clear with the lofs only of # what he once thought himself to have won , and perhaps not wholly of that . 4 . Next year he published some select poems of Next 114 POPE . ever his criticks were, their writings are ...
... clear with the lofs only of # what he once thought himself to have won , and perhaps not wholly of that . 4 . Next year he published some select poems of Next 114 POPE . ever his criticks were, their writings are ...
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samuel johnson. 4 . Next year he published some select poems of his friend Dr. Parnell , with a very elegant Dedication to the Earl of Oxford ; who , after all his struggles and dangers , then lived in retirement , ftill under the frown ...
samuel johnson. 4 . Next year he published some select poems of his friend Dr. Parnell , with a very elegant Dedication to the Earl of Oxford ; who , after all his struggles and dangers , then lived in retirement , ftill under the frown ...
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... Some falfe editions of the book . from having an owl in their frontispiece , the true one , to diftinguish it , fixed'in its ftead an afs laden with authors , A I 4 " Then " Then another furreptitious one being " printed with the POP ...
... Some falfe editions of the book . from having an owl in their frontispiece , the true one , to diftinguish it , fixed'in its ftead an afs laden with authors , A I 4 " Then " Then another furreptitious one being " printed with the POP ...
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268 ページ - 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.
329 ページ - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
110 ページ - Here he planted the vines and the quincunx which his verses mention; and being under the necessity of making a subterraneous passage to a garden on the other side of the road, he adorned it with fossile bodies, and dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded.
268 ページ - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
269 ページ - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.
262 ページ - He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master.
264 ページ - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
222 ページ - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
267 ページ - 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. * Poetry was not the...
9 ページ - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his Ode on Solitude...