The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... thought that his lofs was great . He tells of himself , in his poems , that he lifp'd in numbers ; and used to say that he could not remember the time when he began to make verfes . In the style of fiction it might have been faid of him ...
... thought that his lofs was great . He tells of himself , in his poems , that he lifp'd in numbers ; and used to say that he could not remember the time when he began to make verfes . In the style of fiction it might have been faid of him ...
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... thought himself the greatest genius that ever was . Self - confidence is the first requifite to great undertakings ; he , indeed , who forms his opinion of himself in folitude , without know- ing the powers of other men , is very liable ...
... thought himself the greatest genius that ever was . Self - confidence is the first requifite to great undertakings ; he , indeed , who forms his opinion of himself in folitude , without know- ing the powers of other men , is very liable ...
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... thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erafmus too ftudioufly praised ; but to these ob- jections he had not much regard . The Essay has been tranflated into French by Hamil- ton , author of the Comte de Grammont , whofe ...
... thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erafmus too ftudioufly praised ; but to these ob- jections he had not much regard . The Essay has been tranflated into French by Hamil- ton , author of the Comte de Grammont , whofe ...
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... thought angry than poor ; and he that wishes to fave his money conceals his avarice by his malice . Addison had hinted his fufpicion that Pope was too much a Tory ; and fome of the Tories fufpected his principles because he had ...
... thought angry than poor ; and he that wishes to fave his money conceals his avarice by his malice . Addison had hinted his fufpicion that Pope was too much a Tory ; and fome of the Tories fufpected his principles because he had ...
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... thought himself the Lord of thousands . But this dream of happinefs did not last long ; and he feems to have waked foon enough to get clear with the lofs only of what he once thought him- felf to have won , and perhaps not wholly of ...
... thought himself the Lord of thousands . But this dream of happinefs did not last long ; and he feems to have waked foon enough to get clear with the lofs only of what he once thought him- felf to have won , and perhaps not wholly of ...
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91 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.
109 ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
308 ページ - Yet even these bones," are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
206 ページ - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
309 ページ - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.
109 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.
45 ページ - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
80 ページ - Man, of which he has given this account to Dr. Swift. 'March 25, 1736. 'If ever I write any more Epistles in verse, one of them shall be addressed to you. I have long concerted it, and begun it; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to be, that is to say, more finished than any of the rest. The subject is large, and will divide into four Epistles, which naturally follow the Essay on Man, viz.
110 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.
154 ページ - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.