The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 |
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... Prior had there- fore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen , Prior , among the rest , took care to show his delight in the increasing honour 4 LIFE OF PRIOR .
... Prior had there- fore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen , Prior , among the rest , took care to show his delight in the increasing honour 4 LIFE OF PRIOR .
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Samuel Johnson. took care to show his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterward a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the duke of Dor- set ...
Samuel Johnson. took care to show his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterward a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the duke of Dor- set ...
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... honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kil- kenny , and afterward at Dublin , his father having some military employment that ...
... honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kil- kenny , and afterward at Dublin , his father having some military employment that ...
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... honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testi- fied his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year , 1695 , his ...
... honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testi- fied his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year , 1695 , his ...
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... honoured by the adverse party might natu- rally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testimo ...
... honoured by the adverse party might natu- rally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testimo ...
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217 ページ - 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 the rising morn.
216 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.
295 ページ - ... the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.
441 ページ - ... cultivated ; that he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all, but that he was fastidious and hard to please.
440 ページ - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics...
179 ページ - Tale of a Tub" has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by itself ; what is true of that, is not true of any thing else which he has written.
277 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.
275 ページ - He considered poetry as the business of his life, and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy: to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last.
366 ページ - This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur of wildness, and the novelty of extravagance, were always desired by him, but were not always attained.
350 ページ - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his , Dissertation on St. Paul.