prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets1781 |
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... original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confiderable , he was removed to a fchool at Twyford near Winchester , and again to another school about Hyde - park Corner ; from which he used fometimes ...
... original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confiderable , he was removed to a fchool at Twyford near Winchester , and again to another school about Hyde - park Corner ; from which he used fometimes ...
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... original but this is but a small part of his praife ; he discovers fuch ac- quaintance both with human life and publick affairs as is not eafily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windfor Foreft . Next year he was ...
... original but this is but a small part of his praife ; he discovers fuch ac- quaintance both with human life and publick affairs as is not eafily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windfor Foreft . Next year he was ...
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... and the patrons of literature were bufy to re- commend his undertaking , and promote his intereft . Lord Oxford , indeed , la- mented that fuch a genius fhould be wafted wafted upon a work not original ; but propofed no 52 POPE .
... and the patrons of literature were bufy to re- commend his undertaking , and promote his intereft . Lord Oxford , indeed , la- mented that fuch a genius fhould be wafted wafted upon a work not original ; but propofed no 52 POPE .
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samuel johnson. wafted upon a work not original ; but propofed no means by which he might live without it : Addifon recommended caution and moderation , and advised him not to be content with the praise of half the nation , when he might ...
samuel johnson. wafted upon a work not original ; but propofed no means by which he might live without it : Addifon recommended caution and moderation , and advised him not to be content with the praise of half the nation , when he might ...
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... original with accidental notions , and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produce ambiguity in diction , and obfcurity in books . To this open difplay of unadulterated na- ture it must be this POPE . 59 gular education ...
... original with accidental notions , and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produce ambiguity in diction , and obfcurity in books . To this open difplay of unadulterated na- ture it must be this POPE . 59 gular education ...
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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...