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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... tion and memory of an old companion may be trusted , he drew the first sketch of his " Tale of a Tub . " When he was about one and twenty ( 1688 ) , being by the death of Godwin Swift his uncle , who had sup- ported him , left without ...
... tion and memory of an old companion may be trusted , he drew the first sketch of his " Tale of a Tub . " When he was about one and twenty ( 1688 ) , being by the death of Godwin Swift his uncle , who had sup- ported him , left without ...
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... tion . Having so lately quitted the tumults of a party , and the intrigues of a court , they still kept his thoughts in agitation , as the sea fluctuates a while when the storm has ceased . He therefore filled his hours with some ...
... tion . Having so lately quitted the tumults of a party , and the intrigues of a court , they still kept his thoughts in agitation , as the sea fluctuates a while when the storm has ceased . He therefore filled his hours with some ...
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... tion ; and as the poemof Cadenus and Vanessa was then the general topic of conversation , one of them said , Surely that Vanessa must be an extraordinary woman , that could inspire the dean to write so finely VOL . III . C upon her ...
... tion ; and as the poemof Cadenus and Vanessa was then the general topic of conversation , one of them said , Surely that Vanessa must be an extraordinary woman , that could inspire the dean to write so finely VOL . III . C upon her ...
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... tion , scarcely any man has ever enjoyed without greater wealth or higher station . * An account somewhat different from this is given by Mr. Sheridan in his Life of Swift , p . 211. R .. He was from this important year the oracle of ...
... tion , scarcely any man has ever enjoyed without greater wealth or higher station . * An account somewhat different from this is given by Mr. Sheridan in his Life of Swift , p . 211. R .. He was from this important year the oracle of ...
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... tion was to him the great softener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to decline ; and two years afterwards was so wasted with sickness , that her recovery was considered as hopeless . Swift was then in ...
... tion was to him the great softener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to decline ; and two years afterwards was so wasted with sickness , that her recovery was considered as hopeless . Swift was then in ...
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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...