The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton |
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Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension , skilful in his profession , versed in the sciences , acquainted with ancient literature , and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great ...
Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension , skilful in his profession , versed in the sciences , acquainted with ancient literature , and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great ...
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Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension , skilful in his profession , versed in the sciences , acquainted with ancient literature , and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great ...
Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension , skilful in his profession , versed in the sciences , acquainted with ancient literature , and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great ...
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able Addison afterward allowed appeared attention believe called censure character common conduct considered continued conversation criticism death desire died discovered easily effect elegance endeavoured equal excellence expected expression favour formed fortune friends gave give given hand honour hope imagination kind king knowledge known lady learning least less letter lines lived lord manner means mentioned mind nature never Night numbers observed obtained occasion once opinion original passed performance perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise present printed probably produced published queen reader reason received regard remarkable reputation returned Savage says seems sent sometimes soon success sufficient supposed Swift tell thing thought tion told took translation verses virtue whole write written wrote Young
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Stran 217 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Stran 216 - 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 295 - ... 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 inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.
Stran 441 - ... cultivated ; that he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all, but that he was fastidious and hard to please.
Stran 440 - 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 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...
Stran 179 - Tale of a Tub" has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by itself ; what is true of that, is not true of any thing else which he has written.
Stran 277 - 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.
Stran 275 - He considered poetry as the business of his life, and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy: to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last.
Stran 366 - This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur of wildness, and the novelty of extravagance, were always desired by him, but were not always attained.
Stran 350 - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his , Dissertation on St. Paul.
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| Naslov | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. Lyttelton Količina 2 od The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Samuel Johnson |
| Avtor | Samuel Johnson |
| Založnik | Samuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 |
| Vir izvirnika | Newyorška javna knjižnica |
| Pretvorjeno v digitalni zapis | 12 jun 2007 |
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