prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets1781 |
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... pleased with himself , eafily imagines that he shall please others . Sir William Trumbal , who had been am- baffador at Conftantinople , and fecre- tary of ftate , when he retired from bu finefs , fixed his refidence in the neigh ...
... pleased with himself , eafily imagines that he shall please others . Sir William Trumbal , who had been am- baffador at Conftantinople , and fecre- tary of ftate , when he retired from bu finefs , fixed his refidence in the neigh ...
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... pleased to read it ) by the right honourable Sir Robert Wal- " póle and fome days after the whole " impreffion was taken and difperfed by 2004 I 3 t " feveral " feveral noblemen and perfons of the " firft diftinction POPE . 133.
... pleased to read it ) by the right honourable Sir Robert Wal- " póle and fome days after the whole " impreffion was taken and difperfed by 2004 I 3 t " feveral " feveral noblemen and perfons of the " firft diftinction POPE . 133.
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... perceived himself not to know the full meaning , could by any mode of interpretation be made to mean well . How much he was pleased with his gratuitous de- fender , fender , the following Letter evidently fhews : " SIR 168 POPE .
... perceived himself not to know the full meaning , could by any mode of interpretation be made to mean well . How much he was pleased with his gratuitous de- fender , fender , the following Letter evidently fhews : " SIR 168 POPE .
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... of power or of money ; he pleased him- felf with being important and formi- dable , and gratified fometimes his pride , and fometimes his refentment ; till at 2 laft laft he began to think he should be more fafe 192 POP E.
... of power or of money ; he pleased him- felf with being important and formi- dable , and gratified fometimes his pride , and fometimes his refentment ; till at 2 laft laft he began to think he should be more fafe 192 POP E.
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... pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His fcorn of the Great is repeated too often to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he defpifes ; and as falfe- hood is always in danger of inconfiften- cy , he makes it his ...
... pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His fcorn of the Great is repeated too often to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he defpifes ; and as falfe- hood is always in danger of inconfiften- cy , he makes it his ...
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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...