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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... thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the king ; from whom , after a long audience , he carried orders to England , and upon his arrival became undersecretary of state in the earl of ...
... thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the king ; from whom , after a long audience , he carried orders to England , and upon his arrival became undersecretary of state in the earl of ...
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... thought all that he writ , and retained as much verac- ity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomi- astic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ...
... thought all that he writ , and retained as much verac- ity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomi- astic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ...
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... satisfied with his behaviour , nor could give such an account of it to the commons as might merit favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than * 1715 . to his own house . " Here , " says 8 LIFE OF PRIOR .
... satisfied with his behaviour , nor could give such an account of it to the commons as might merit favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than * 1715 . to his own house . " Here , " says 8 LIFE OF PRIOR .
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... thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity ; he perceived in it many excellences , and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of ...
... thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sublimity ; he perceived in it many excellences , and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of ...
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... thought wrong . The event of every experiment is foreseen , and therefore the process is not much regarded . Yet the ... thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or sin- gle conceits , are not always his own . I have ...
... thought wrong . The event of every experiment is foreseen , and therefore the process is not much regarded . Yet the ... thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or sin- gle conceits , are not always his own . I have ...
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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.