The Lives of the English Poets, 第 2 巻J.F. Dove, and sold by all the booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1826 - 420 ページ |
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... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poeti- cally attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poeti- cally attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
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... passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and over- powered in every quarter of the globe ; when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was ...
... passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and over- powered in every quarter of the globe ; when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was ...
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... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his Alma ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is ...
... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his Alma ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is ...
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... passed through many successions of merry wits ; for it is to be found in Ariosto's ' Satires , ' and is perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
... passed through many successions of merry wits ; for it is to be found in Ariosto's ' Satires , ' and is perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
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... passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But if ' The Old Bachelor ' be more nearly examined , it will be found to be one of those comedies which may be made by a mind ...
... passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But if ' The Old Bachelor ' be more nearly examined , it will be found to be one of those comedies which may be made by a mind ...
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274 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.
274 ページ - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
404 ページ - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
275 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.
275 ページ - 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 constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
404 ページ - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
289 ページ - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...
216 ページ - Iliad. It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
166 ページ - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
409 ページ - you shall be my confessor ; when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.