The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... dangerous , who called in queftion his knowledge of Greek , and his qualifications for a tranf- lator of Homer . To thefe he made no publick oppo- fition ; but in one of his Letters efcapes from them as well as he can . At an age like ...
... dangerous , who called in queftion his knowledge of Greek , and his qualifications for a tranf- lator of Homer . To thefe he made no publick oppo- fition ; but in one of his Letters efcapes from them as well as he can . At an age like ...
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... dangers , then lived in retirement , ftill under the frown of a victorious faction , who could take no pleasure in hearing his praise . He gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shake- fpeare . His name was now of fo much authority ...
... dangers , then lived in retirement , ftill under the frown of a victorious faction , who could take no pleasure in hearing his praise . He gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shake- fpeare . His name was now of fo much authority ...
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... danger of immediate death , when the poftilion fnatched him qut by breaking the glafs , of which the fragments cut two of his fingers in fuch a manner , that he loft their use . Voltaire , Voltaire , who was then in England , fent him ...
... danger of immediate death , when the poftilion fnatched him qut by breaking the glafs , of which the fragments cut two of his fingers in fuch a manner , that he loft their use . Voltaire , Voltaire , who was then in England , fent him ...
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... danger where gold and diamonds are fafe . A cat , hunted for his musk , is , according to Pope's account , but the em- blem of a wit winded by bookfellers . His complaint , however , received some atteftation ; for the fame year the ...
... danger where gold and diamonds are fafe . A cat , hunted for his musk , is , according to Pope's account , but the em- blem of a wit winded by bookfellers . His complaint , however , received some atteftation ; for the fame year the ...
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... danger of starving , as the bookfellers had no longer any confidence in his capacity . The prevalence of this poem was gradual and flow : the plan , if not wholly new , was little understood by common readers . Many of the allufions ...
... danger of starving , as the bookfellers had no longer any confidence in his capacity . The prevalence of this poem was gradual and flow : the plan , if not wholly new , was little understood by common readers . Many of the allufions ...
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110 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.
109 ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
276 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.
308 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.
206 ページ - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
79 ページ - For this reason this joint production of three great writers has never obtained any notice from mankind; it has been little read, or when read has been forgotten, as no man could be wiser, better, or merrier, by remembering it. The design cannot boast of much originality; for, besides its general resemblance to Don Quixote, there will be found in it particular imitations of the History of Mr.
109 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.
109 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.
90 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...
176 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.