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... several years , in a low condition , when , at length , a furprising phenomenon appeared in Garrick . He was moft eminently in this refpect , the child of genius and of nature . His various and aftonishing powers we need not enlarge ...
... several years , in a low condition , when , at length , a furprising phenomenon appeared in Garrick . He was moft eminently in this refpect , the child of genius and of nature . His various and aftonishing powers we need not enlarge ...
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... several of their works of this kind will hereafter be noticed . We should remember , alfo , that to North Britain we are in- debted for Hume and Robertson , our two claffic hiftorians . Arbuthnot and Thomfon were natives of that country ...
... several of their works of this kind will hereafter be noticed . We should remember , alfo , that to North Britain we are in- debted for Hume and Robertson , our two claffic hiftorians . Arbuthnot and Thomfon were natives of that country ...
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... Several other gentlemen fpoke in this debate , after which the houfe divided , when there appeared in fupport of the motion for appoint- ing Mr. Cornwall speaker 203 , and against it 134 . The day following , the first of November , his ...
... Several other gentlemen fpoke in this debate , after which the houfe divided , when there appeared in fupport of the motion for appoint- ing Mr. Cornwall speaker 203 , and against it 134 . The day following , the first of November , his ...
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... Several other members fpoke in the debate ; but , upon a divifion , the addrefs , as it was first moved , was carried by a majority of 203 to 134 . In the houfe of peers a fimilar ad- drefs to his majefty was moved for , but it did not ...
... Several other members fpoke in the debate ; but , upon a divifion , the addrefs , as it was first moved , was carried by a majority of 203 to 134 . In the houfe of peers a fimilar ad- drefs to his majefty was moved for , but it did not ...
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... Several other gentlemen fpoke in the debate , but the motion at length puffed , without a divifion , as did alfo another made by the fame nobleman , " that the fum " of four pounds per man per month , be granted for the fup- 66 Fort and ...
... Several other gentlemen fpoke in the debate , but the motion at length puffed , without a divifion , as did alfo another made by the fame nobleman , " that the fum " of four pounds per man per month , be granted for the fup- 66 Fort and ...
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69 ページ - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
17 ページ - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
11 ページ - Club," compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy, but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably in part the effect of his application. His stature was so low, that to bring him to a level with common tables, it was necessary to raise his seat. But his face was not displeasing...
17 ページ - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...
163 ページ - ¡rinds, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great - Britain, called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great-Britain called Scotland, 1,500,000!.
17 ページ - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
17 ページ - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to 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. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation...
17 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.
69 ページ - Seasons is want of method ; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation.
71 ページ - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.