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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... remarkable gentle- nefs and sweetness of difpofition . The weakness of his body continued through his life * ; but the mildness of his mind perhaps ended with his childhood . His voice , when he was young , was so pleasing , that he was ...
... remarkable gentle- nefs and sweetness of difpofition . The weakness of his body continued through his life * ; but the mildness of his mind perhaps ended with his childhood . His voice , when he was young , was so pleasing , that he was ...
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... remarkable , that , fo near his time , fo much fhould be known of what he has written , and fo little of what he has faid : traditional memory retains no fallies of raillery , nor fentences of obfervation ; nothing either pointed or ...
... remarkable , that , fo near his time , fo much fhould be known of what he has written , and fo little of what he has faid : traditional memory retains no fallies of raillery , nor fentences of obfervation ; nothing either pointed or ...
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... remarkable . Having determined not to be dependent , he determined not to be in want , and there- fore wifely and magnanimously rejected all temptations to expence unfuitable to his fortune . This general care must be univerfally ...
... remarkable . Having determined not to be dependent , he determined not to be in want , and there- fore wifely and magnanimously rejected all temptations to expence unfuitable to his fortune . This general care must be univerfally ...
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... remarkable for the artful introduction of the name , which is inferted with a peculiar felicity , to which chance must concur with genius , which no man can hope to attain twice , and which cannot be copied but with fervile imitation ...
... remarkable for the artful introduction of the name , which is inferted with a peculiar felicity , to which chance must concur with genius , which no man can hope to attain twice , and which cannot be copied but with fervile imitation ...
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... remarkable for just rhymes ; but , altogether , they will make rather a curi- ous page in the life of Young . Prophetic fchemes , And golden dreams , May I , unfanguine , caft away ! Have what I have , And live , not leave , Enamoured ...
... remarkable for just rhymes ; but , altogether , they will make rather a curi- ous page in the life of Young . Prophetic fchemes , And golden dreams , May I , unfanguine , caft away ! Have what I have , And live , not leave , Enamoured ...
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91 ページ - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
109 ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
308 ページ - Yet even these bones," are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
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...
309 ページ - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.
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.
45 ページ - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
80 ページ - Man, of which he has given this account to Dr. Swift. 'March 25, 1736. 'If ever I write any more Epistles in verse, one of them shall be addressed to you. I have long concerted it, and begun it; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to be, that is to say, more finished than any of the rest. The subject is large, and will divide into four Epistles, which naturally follow the Essay on Man, viz.
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.
154 ページ - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.