The literature and literati of Bath: an essay. [With] Supplement |
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Abbey admiration afterwards alike anecdote appear archæological Bath Abbey Batte beautiful biographer Bishop boast Born built buried called celebrated character charmed CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY Church classical Cogan Crescent David Hartley death distinguished edition elegant eminent entitled Essay esteemed Falconer fame father genius gentleman Grammar School grave Harington historian honor HORACE TWISS HUNTER intellectual James Quin John JOSEPH GLANVILL Lady learned letters Linley LITERATURE AND LITERATI lived Lord Maria Linley married ment merits mind Miss muse neighbourhood notice PARRY passed Philip Thicknesse philosopher physician poem poet poetry portrait possessed Prior Park published pursuits Quin R. B. Sheridan reader recollect Rector residence in Bath Robert Southey Samuel Lysons scholar Sheridan Society spermaceti Street talent taste Theatre THICKNESSE Thomas THOMAS BOWDLER Thomas Falconer Tickell valuable virtues Walcot Warner William WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES worthy writes wrote youth
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31 ページ - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
13 ページ - How could Johnson be just to Milton ! The comparison, which we have instituted, has compelled us to notice Johnson's defects. But we trust we are not blind to his merits. His stately march, his pomp and power of language, his strength of thought, his reverence for virtue and religion, his vigorous logic, his practical wisdom, his insight into the springs of human action, and the solemn pathos, which occasionally pervades his descriptions of life and his references to his own history, command our...
47 ページ - But if some new-born whim, or larger bribe, Prompt thy crude brain, and claim thee for a scribe : If 'chance some bard, though once by dunces feared. Now, prone in dust, can only be revered ; If Pope, whose fame and genius, from the first, Have foiled the best of critics, needs the worst, Do thou essay : each fault, each failing scan ; The first of poets was, alas!
9 ページ - And, reared by taste, bloomed fairer as they grew. Then, in this happy isle, a Pope's pure strain Sought the rapt soul to charm, nor sought in vain : A polished nation's praise aspired to claim, And raised the people's, as the poet's fame. Like him great Dryden poured the tide of song In stream less smooth, indeed, yet doubly strong. Then Congreve's scenes could cheer, or Otway's melt ; For nature then an English audience felt.
57 ページ - Inasmuch as you, Sam, a descendant of Sim. For collecting handwritings have taken a whim. And to me, Robert Southey, petition have made. In a civil and nicely-penned letter — post-paid — That I to your album so gracious would be As to fill up a page there appointed for me, • - • Five couplets I send you, by aid of the nine — They will cost you in postage a penny a line : At Keswick, October the sixth, they were done, One thousand eight hundred and twenty and one.*' Some erf Southey's distractions...
77 ページ - ... of thought and dignified evenness of expression which, while it seldom soars into sublimity, or penetrates deep into the abysses of passion, is never devoid of sense and reflection. His most celebrated work is The History of the Civil Wars, a poem on the Civil Wars between the houses of York and Lancaster, in that peculiar style of poetical narrative and moral meditation the example of which had been set by Sackville's Mirrour for Magistrates, and which was at this time a favorite type among...
31 ページ - Leadbeater. I have been at Bath these four months to no purpose, and am therefore to be removed to my own house at Beaconsfield to-morrow, to be nearer to a habitation more permanent, humbly and fearfully hoping that my better part may find a better mansion.
13 ページ - Let low-born Allen," &c. ; but the best of us have a vein of pride lurking about our hearts, and Pope did not exactly please his friend by this allusion to his early life, and, at the suggestion of Warburton, he substituted the phrase as it at present stands.
79 ページ - Cold are those hands, which, living, were stretched forth At friendship's call to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin ! deign reader to be taught (Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In nature's happiest mould however cast), To this complexion thou must come at last.
3 ページ - Desolation hop'd an ampler sway; What hero then triumphant Gaul dismay'd '! What arm repell'd the victor Renegade ? Britannia's champion ! — bath'd in hostile blood, High on the breach the dauntless SEAMAN stood : Admiring Asia saw th' unequal fight, — E'en the pale crescent bless'd the Christian's might.