The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works, Količina 31865 |
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... labour . His own diffidence was not his only vexation . He that asks a subscription soon finds that he has enemies . All who do not encourage him defame him . He that wants money will rather be thought angry than poor , and he that ...
... labour . His own diffidence was not his only vexation . He that asks a subscription soon finds that he has enemies . All who do not encourage him defame him . He that wants money will rather be thought angry than poor , and he that ...
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... labour , being either weary with toiling upon another's thoughts , or having heard , as Ruffhead relates , that Fenton and Broome had already begun the work , and liking better to have them confederates than rivals . In the patent ...
... labour , being either weary with toiling upon another's thoughts , or having heard , as Ruffhead relates , that Fenton and Broome had already begun the work , and liking better to have them confederates than rivals . In the patent ...
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... labour to have been bestowed r . Into this poem some incidents are historically thrown , and some known characters are introduced , with others of which it is difficult to say how far they are real or fictitious ; but the praise of ...
... labour to have been bestowed r . Into this poem some incidents are historically thrown , and some known characters are introduced , with others of which it is difficult to say how far they are real or fictitious ; but the praise of ...
Stran 111
... labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be im- proved he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an expression more happy than ...
... labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be im- proved he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an expression more happy than ...
Stran 112
Samuel Johnson. He was one of those few whose labour is their pleasure ; he was never elevated to negligence , nor wearied to impatience ; he never passed a fault un- amended by indifference , nor quitted by despair . He laboured his ...
Samuel Johnson. He was one of those few whose labour is their pleasure ; he was never elevated to negligence , nor wearied to impatience ; he never passed a fault un- amended by indifference , nor quitted by despair . He laboured his ...
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Stran 96 - 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.
Stran 105 - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Stran 306 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Stran 19 - 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.
Stran 138 - Unblaru'd through life, lamented in thy end, These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the Worthy and the Good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies GAY...
Stran 121 - Between Roman images and English manners, there will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and partycoloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient nor modern.* Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius.
Stran 137 - 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.
Stran 132 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes.
Stran 348 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, aud 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, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting,...
Stran 16 - Thetis' son he bends his care, And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war. Then bids an empty phantom rise to sight, And thus commands the vision of the night : • . directs Fly hence, delusive dream, and, light as air, To Agamemnon's royal tent repair ; Bid him in arms draw forth th' embattled train, March all his legions to the dusty plain.