The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, 第 3 巻C. Buzby and B. Warner, 1819 |
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... night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean sheets for sixpence . This practice lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of gross- ness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through ...
... night he would go to a penny lodging , where he purchased clean sheets for sixpence . This practice lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of gross- ness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through ...
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... night , and part of the next day . There was reason enough to fear that he had betrayed his master for the reward ; but he came home , and the dean ordered him to put off his livery , and leave the house ; " for , " says he , " I know ...
... night , and part of the next day . There was reason enough to fear that he had betrayed his master for the reward ; but he came home , and the dean ordered him to put off his livery , and leave the house ; " for , " says he , " I know ...
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... night , and sent to the offended lady who liked it well enough to shew it ; and , with the usual process of lite- rary transactions , the author , dreading a surreptitious edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have ...
... night , and sent to the offended lady who liked it well enough to shew it ; and , with the usual process of lite- rary transactions , the author , dreading a surreptitious edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have ...
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... nights disturbed by dreams of long journeys through unknown ways , and wished , as he said , " that somebody would hang him . " * This misery , however , was not of long continuance ; he grew by degrees more acquainted with Homer's ...
... nights disturbed by dreams of long journeys through unknown ways , and wished , as he said , " that somebody would hang him . " * This misery , however , was not of long continuance ; he grew by degrees more acquainted with Homer's ...
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... night : directs Fly hence , dilusive dream , and , light as air , To Agamemnon's royal tent repair ; Bid him in arms draw forth th ' embattled train , March all his legions to the dusty plain , Now tell the king ' tis given him to ...
... night : directs Fly hence , dilusive dream , and , light as air , To Agamemnon's royal tent repair ; Bid him in arms draw forth th ' embattled train , March all his legions to the dusty plain , Now tell the king ' tis given him to ...
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Aaron Hill Addison afterwards appears blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character copy criticism Curll death dedication delight diction diligence discovered Dorset downs Dryden Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry epistle epitaph Essay excellence fame father faults favour friendship genius Grongar Hill Homer honour hundred Iliad Ireland kind king known labour lady learning letters lines lived lord lord Bolingbroke lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers once original Orrery Oxford perhaps Philips Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced prose published reader reason received reputation rhyme ridiculous satire says seems shew shewn solicited sometimes soon stanza supposed Swift Tatler tell thing Thomson tion told tragedy translation truth virtue Warburton whigs write written wrote Young
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85 ページ - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
216 ページ - wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses.
195 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.
164 ページ - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
216 ページ - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking-, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation.
94 ページ - 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.
155 ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
342 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.
164 ページ - Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
85 ページ - ... rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait...