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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... character without ill intention ; but it is certainly of dangerous example . That Swift was its author , though it be universally believed , was never owned by himself nor very well proved by any evidence ; but no other claimant can be ...
... character without ill intention ; but it is certainly of dangerous example . That Swift was its author , though it be universally believed , was never owned by himself nor very well proved by any evidence ; but no other claimant can be ...
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... character , is laid open to inquiry , the accuser having the choice of facts , must be very unskilful if he does not prevail ; but , with regard to wit , I am afraid none of Swift's papers will be found equal to those by which Addison ...
... character , is laid open to inquiry , the accuser having the choice of facts , must be very unskilful if he does not prevail ; but , with regard to wit , I am afraid none of Swift's papers will be found equal to those by which Addison ...
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... character ; what then was likely to be said of him who employs the catch - poll under the ap- pearance of charity ? The clamour against him was loud , and the resentment of the populace outrageous ; he was therefore forced to drop his ...
... character ; what then was likely to be said of him who employs the catch - poll under the ap- pearance of charity ? The clamour against him was loud , and the resentment of the populace outrageous ; he was therefore forced to drop his ...
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... character . The person of Swift had not many recommenda- tions . He had a kind of muddy complexion , which , though he washed himself with oriental scrupulosity , did not look clear . He had a countenance sour and se- vere , which he ...
... character . The person of Swift had not many recommenda- tions . He had a kind of muddy complexion , which , though he washed himself with oriental scrupulosity , did not look clear . He had a countenance sour and se- vere , which he ...
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... character , is to discover by what depravity of intellect he took delight in revolving ideas from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even when criminal , may solicit the imagina- tion ; but what ...
... character , is to discover by what depravity of intellect he took delight in revolving ideas from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even when criminal , may solicit the imagina- tion ; but what ...
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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...