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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That the quarrel of those two wits should be minutely deduced , is not to be
expected from a writer to whom , as Homer says , nothing but rue mour bas
reached , and who has no personal knowledge . Pope doubtless approached
Addison ...
That the quarrel of those two wits should be minutely deduced , is not to be
expected from a writer to whom , as Homer says , nothing but rue mour bas
reached , and who has no personal knowledge . Pope doubtless approached
Addison ...
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Lintot , I believe , did nothing ; and Curll did what was expected . That to make
them publick was the only purpose may be reasonably fupposed , because the
numbers offered to sale by the private messengers sewed that hope of gain could
...
Lintot , I believe , did nothing ; and Curll did what was expected . That to make
them publick was the only purpose may be reasonably fupposed , because the
numbers offered to sale by the private messengers sewed that hope of gain could
...
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This , and more , may possibly be true ; but Tscharner's was a first visit , a visit of
curiosity and admiration , and a visit which the author expected . Of Edward
Young an anecdote which wanders among readers is not true , that he was
Fielding's ...
This , and more , may possibly be true ; but Tscharner's was a first visit , a visit of
curiosity and admiration , and a visit which the author expected . Of Edward
Young an anecdote which wanders among readers is not true , that he was
Fielding's ...
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Success had now given confidence to the Austrians , and had proportionably
abated the spirit of their enemies . The Saxons , who had co - operated with the
king of Prussia in the conquest of Moravia , of which they expected the perpetual
...
Success had now given confidence to the Austrians , and had proportionably
abated the spirit of their enemies . The Saxons , who had co - operated with the
king of Prussia in the conquest of Moravia , of which they expected the perpetual
...
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... and burning towns , and destroying magazines of corn , with such wantonness
, as gave reason to believe that he expected commendation from his court for any
mischiefs done , by whatever means . The Austrians pursued their advantages ...
... and burning towns , and destroying magazines of corn , with such wantonness
, as gave reason to believe that he expected commendation from his court for any
mischiefs done , by whatever means . The Austrians pursued their advantages ...
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afterwards againſt appears becauſe began believe called character common conſidered continued court danger death deſign deſire diſcovered Drake eaſily effect enemies engaged Engliſh equally expected failed father firſt force formed fortune gained gave give given hand himſelf honour hope houſe Italy kind king knowledge known language laſt learning leſs Letters lines lived Lord maſter means mentioned mind moſt muſt nature never Night obſerved once opinion original performance perhaps pleaſed poem poet poetry Pope praiſe preſent prince printed produced publick publiſhed raiſed reader reaſon received regard remarkable reputation ſaid ſame ſays ſeems ſent ſhips ſhould ſome ſometimes ſon ſoon ſtate ſtudy ſuch ſufficient themſelves theſe thing thoſe thought tion took tranſlation uſe verſes whole whoſe writer written Young
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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.