Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works, Količina 2P.C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poeti- cally attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poeti- cally attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
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... passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and over- powered in every quarter of the globe , when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was ...
... passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and over- powered in every quarter of the globe , when Spain , coming to her assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was ...
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... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his Alma . He ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It ...
... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his Alma . He ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It ...
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... passed through many successions of merry wits ; for it is to be found in Ariosto's Satires , and is perhaps yet older . * But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his Amorous Effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
... passed through many successions of merry wits ; for it is to be found in Ariosto's Satires , and is perhaps yet older . * But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his Amorous Effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
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... passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profes- sion , by which something might be gotten ; and about the time of the ...
... passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profes- sion , by which something might be gotten ; and about the time of the ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Duke Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English epitaph Essay excellence expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present printed publick published Queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue Whigs write written wrote Young
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Stran 298 - unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet ; Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestick march, and energy divine.
Stran 27 - and still as death.—Tis dreadful I How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity
Stran 292 - There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either : for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style
Stran 315 - Just to his prince, and to his country true ; Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth ; A generous faith, from superstition free ; A love to peace, and hate of tyranny : Such this man was ; who now, from earth remov'd, 1
Stran 59 - been observing once to Mr-. Gay, what " an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might "make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some" time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write> "'a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise tO>
Stran 435 - by the Rev. Mr. Temple, rector of St. Gluvias in Cornwall : and am as willing as his warmest well-wisher to believe it true. " 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
Stran 291 - images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope
Stran 435 - or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in " science. He also had, in some degree, that weakness " which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congrevc : " though he seemed to value others chiefly according to " the progress that they had made in knowledge, yet he " could not bear to be considered merely as a man of
Stran 14 - many excellencies, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves; and the act of composition fills and delights
Stran 414 - too frequently vain. Before he returned to much of what he had once approved, he died. Many of his books, which I have seen, arc by those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's highest station ends in Here he lies ! And