Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 strani |
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Stran xiii
... in his mind , his letters show him insensible to excellence in others . As a friend he was liberal and faithful ; zealous and constant . He professed the Roman Catholic religion SUMMARY OF JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE xiii.
... in his mind , his letters show him insensible to excellence in others . As a friend he was liberal and faithful ; zealous and constant . He professed the Roman Catholic religion SUMMARY OF JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE xiii.
Stran 2
... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire , under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practised , taught him the Greek and ...
... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire , under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practised , taught him the Greek and ...
Stran 3
... excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revisals ; after which the old gentleman ...
... excellence . His primary and principal purpose was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revisals ; after which the old gentleman ...
Stran 14
... excellence . Those performances , which strike with wonder , are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents , should happen ...
... excellence . Those performances , which strike with wonder , are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents , should happen ...
Stran 23
... excellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very desirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to correctness . Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely been attainable ...
... excellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very desirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to correctness . Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely been attainable ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atossa attacked Binfield Bolingbroke booksellers censure character Cibber Colley Cibber Compare copies couplet Craggs Curll Dennis diligence Dryden Duchess of Marlborough Duke Dunciad edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle to Arbuthnot epitaph Essay on Criticism excellence fame father favour Fenton friendship genius Greek Halifax Homer honour Horace Horace Walpole Iliad Imitations Jervas Johnson King labour Lady Latin learning letters lines Lintot living Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Hervey means MICHAEL MACMILLAN mind Miscellanies moral nature never numbers o'er pamphlet passage perhaps poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed prose published quincunx readers reason remarks ridiculous Rosicrucians satire Scriblerus Club seems sewed Spence subscription Swift tell Theobald thought tion told translation verses Virgil volume W. T. WEBB Warburton Windsor Forest words write written wrote
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Stran 90 - 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. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Stran 29 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, 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 every mountain's head...
Stran 184 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Stran 162 - There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth.
Stran 89 - 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 by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Stran 173 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.
Stran 117 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Stran 184 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Stran 181 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Stran 147 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.