The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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Stran 18
... perhaps vain , of amufing himself with poetry and criticism ; and fometimes fent his performances to Pope , who did not forbear fuch remarks as were now and - then unwelcome . Pope , in his turn , put the juvenile verfion of Statius ...
... perhaps vain , of amufing himself with poetry and criticism ; and fometimes fent his performances to Pope , who did not forbear fuch remarks as were now and - then unwelcome . Pope , in his turn , put the juvenile verfion of Statius ...
Stran 43
... compofition of that tender kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perufal of Prior's Nut- brown Maid . How much he has fur- paffed Prior's work it is not neceffary . to 44 to mention , when perhaps it may be faid POPE . 43.
... compofition of that tender kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perufal of Prior's Nut- brown Maid . How much he has fur- paffed Prior's work it is not neceffary . to 44 to mention , when perhaps it may be faid POPE . 43.
Stran 44
Samuel Johnson. 44 to mention , when perhaps it may be faid with juftice , that he has excelled every compofition of the fame kind . The mixture of religious hope and re- fignation gives an elevation and dignity to difappointed love ...
Samuel Johnson. 44 to mention , when perhaps it may be faid with juftice , that he has excelled every compofition of the fame kind . The mixture of religious hope and re- fignation gives an elevation and dignity to difappointed love ...
Stran 47
... perhaps did not think Pope to have deferved much by his officioufness . This year was printed in the Guardian the ironical comparifon between the Pas torals of Phillips and Pope ; a compofi- tion of artifice , criticism , and literature ...
... perhaps did not think Pope to have deferved much by his officioufness . This year was printed in the Guardian the ironical comparifon between the Pas torals of Phillips and Pope ; a compofi- tion of artifice , criticism , and literature ...
Stran 54
... perhaps a little thinner ; and fold exactly at half the price , for half a guinea each volume , books fo little inferior to the Quartos , that , by a fraud of trade , thofe Folios , being after- wards fhortened by cutting away the top ...
... perhaps a little thinner ; and fold exactly at half the price , for half a guinea each volume , books fo little inferior to the Quartos , that , by a fraud of trade , thofe Folios , being after- wards fhortened by cutting away the top ...
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Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 347 - As Gay was the favourite of our author, this epitaph was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more successfully executed than the rest, for it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labour.
Stran 212 - 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.
Stran 256 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Stran 246 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
Stran 76 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
Stran 315 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew 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...
Stran 255 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. 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.
Stran 252 - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Stran 85 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Stran 252 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...