The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, 第 4 巻1781 |
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... pieces , which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and profeffed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his verfification , and in the smoothness ...
... pieces , which he afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and profeffed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his verfification , and in the smoothness ...
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... pieces fhew , with fufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily ima- gines that he shall please others . Sir Wil- liam Trumbal , who had been ambassador at Conftantinople , and fecretary of ...
... pieces fhew , with fufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily ima- gines that he shall please others . Sir Wil- liam Trumbal , who had been ambassador at Conftantinople , and fecretary of ...
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... pieces of theirs as had casually got << ( C abroad , there was added to them the Trea- tife of the Bathos , or the Art of Sinking in Poetry . It happened that in one chapter " of this piece the several species of bad po- ets were ranged ...
... pieces of theirs as had casually got << ( C abroad , there was added to them the Trea- tife of the Bathos , or the Art of Sinking in Poetry . It happened that in one chapter " of this piece the several species of bad po- ets were ranged ...
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... pieces it is useless to settle the dates , as they had feldom much relation to the times , and per- haps had been long in his hands . This mode of imitation , in which the an- çients are familiarifed , by adapting their fen- timents to ...
... pieces it is useless to settle the dates , as they had feldom much relation to the times , and per- haps had been long in his hands . This mode of imitation , in which the an- çients are familiarifed , by adapting their fen- timents to ...
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... pieces very long in his hands , while he confidered and reconfidered them . The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with fuch regard to the times as might haften their publication , were the two fatires of Thirty ...
... pieces very long in his hands , while he confidered and reconfidered them . The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with fuch regard to the times as might haften their publication , were the two fatires of Thirty ...
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17 ページ - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
286 ページ - Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time -combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
485 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.
172 ページ - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
55 ページ - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, 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 every mountain's head...
233 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 liv'd, and that he died.
490 ページ - 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.
274 ページ - They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their " race ;" a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil. " Liberty," when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted.
173 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.
171 ページ - 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.