The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
この書籍内から
検索結果1-5 / 14
23 ページ
... person is depreciated ; but he feems to have known fomething of Pope's character , in whom may be difcovered an appetite to talk too frequently of his own vir- tues . B 4 The The pamphlet is fuch as rage might be expected to POPE . 23.
... person is depreciated ; but he feems to have known fomething of Pope's character , in whom may be difcovered an appetite to talk too frequently of his own vir- tues . B 4 The The pamphlet is fuch as rage might be expected to POPE . 23.
24 ページ
Samuel Johnson. The pamphlet is fuch as rage might be expected to dictate . He fuppofes himself to be afked two queftions ; whe- ther the Effay will fucceed , and who or what is the author . Its fuccefs he admits to be fecured by the ...
Samuel Johnson. The pamphlet is fuch as rage might be expected to dictate . He fuppofes himself to be afked two queftions ; whe- ther the Effay will fucceed , and who or what is the author . Its fuccefs he admits to be fecured by the ...
34 ページ
... expected like other guardians that she should make at least an equal match , and fuch he proposed to her , but found it re- jected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having difcovered the correfpondence between the ...
... expected like other guardians that she should make at least an equal match , and fuch he proposed to her , but found it re- jected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having difcovered the correfpondence between the ...
51 ページ
... and never difturbed the publick with his political opinions ; and it might be naturally expected , as each faction then boasted its literary zeal , that the great D 2 great men , who on other occafions prac- tifed all POPE . 51.
... and never difturbed the publick with his political opinions ; and it might be naturally expected , as each faction then boasted its literary zeal , that the great D 2 great men , who on other occafions prac- tifed all POPE . 51.
97 ページ
... , is not to be expected from a writer to whom , as Homer fays , nothing but rumour has reached , and who has no perfonal know- ment . ledge . G Pope Pope doubtiefs approached Addifon , when the reputation of their POPE . 97.
... , is not to be expected from a writer to whom , as Homer fays , nothing but rumour has reached , and who has no perfonal know- ment . ledge . G Pope Pope doubtiefs approached Addifon , when the reputation of their POPE . 97.
多く使われている語句
Addifon affiftance afked afterwards againſt Atrides becauſe Binfield Bleft Bolingbroke cenfure character Cibber compofition confeffed confiderable confidered criticiſm criticks defign defire Dennis difcovered Dryden Dunciad eafily Effay elegance English Epiftle epitaph facred fafe faid fame fatire fays feems feen felected fenfe fent fhall fhew fhewn fhould firft firſt folicitation fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftill ftudies fubfcription fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fufpect fupplied fuppofed furely himſelf Homer honour Iliad illuftration intereft kindneſs laft learning lefs Letters loft Lord Lord Halifax mafter ment mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary nefs never numbers o'er obferved Ovid paffages paffion perfons perfuaded perhaps perufal pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's powers praife praiſe prefent printed profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſed readers reafon rife thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation ufed unkle uſed verfes verfion verſes Warburton whofe write written
人気のある引用
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...