The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... Windfor Foreft . Next year he was defirous of opening to himself new fources of knowledge , by making himself acquainted with mo- dern languages ; and removed for a time to to London , that he might study French and Italian POPE . IL.
... Windfor Foreft . Next year he was defirous of opening to himself new fources of knowledge , by making himself acquainted with mo- dern languages ; and removed for a time to to London , that he might study French and Italian POPE . IL.
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Samuel Johnson. to London , that he might study French and Italian , which , as he defired nothing more than to read them , were by dili- gent application foon difpatched . Of Italian learning he does not appear to have ever made much ...
Samuel Johnson. to London , that he might study French and Italian , which , as he defired nothing more than to read them , were by dili- gent application foon difpatched . Of Italian learning he does not appear to have ever made much ...
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... study of the popifh controver- fy , in hope of his converfion ; to which Pope answered in a manner that cannot much recommend his principles , or his judgement . In questions and projects of learning , they agreed better . He was called ...
... study of the popifh controver- fy , in hope of his converfion ; to which Pope answered in a manner that cannot much recommend his principles , or his judgement . In questions and projects of learning , they agreed better . He was called ...
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... study and retire- ment had thrown him on the world , and that there was danger left a glut of the world fhould throw him back upon study and retirement . To this Swift answered with great propriety , that Pope had not yet either acted ...
... study and retire- ment had thrown him on the world , and that there was danger left a glut of the world fhould throw him back upon study and retirement . To this Swift answered with great propriety , that Pope had not yet either acted ...
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... study might pro- duce , or chance might fupply . If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher , Pope continues longer on the wing . If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter , of Pope's the heat is more regular and conftant . Dryden ...
... study might pro- duce , or chance might fupply . If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher , Pope continues longer on the wing . If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter , of Pope's the heat is more regular and conftant . Dryden ...
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347 ページ - As Gay was the favourite of our author, this epitaph was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more successfully executed than the rest, for it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labour.
212 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.
256 ページ - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
246 ページ - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
76 ページ - 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...
315 ページ - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
255 ページ - 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.
252 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.
85 ページ - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
252 ページ - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...