The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Količina 4C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... moft successful exertion of poetical art . He in- deed could never afterwards produce any thing of such unexampled excellence . Those performances , which strike with wonder , are combinations of fkilful genius with happy casualty ; and ...
... moft successful exertion of poetical art . He in- deed could never afterwards produce any thing of such unexampled excellence . Those performances , which strike with wonder , are combinations of fkilful genius with happy casualty ; and ...
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... into " fo violent a fury , that , for half a year or 46 more , the common newspapers ( in most " of which they had fome property , as being VOL . IV .. " hired G " hired writers ) were filled with the moft abufive Р О Р Е. 81.
... into " fo violent a fury , that , for half a year or 46 more , the common newspapers ( in most " of which they had fome property , as being VOL . IV .. " hired G " hired writers ) were filled with the moft abufive Р О Р Е. 81.
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... moft abufive falfhoods and fcurrilities they could 66 poffibly devife . A liberty no way to be " wondered at in those people , and in those 66 66 papers , that for many years , during the " uncontrouled licenfe of the prefs , had af ...
... moft abufive falfhoods and fcurrilities they could 66 poffibly devife . A liberty no way to be " wondered at in those people , and in those 66 66 papers , that for many years , during the " uncontrouled licenfe of the prefs , had af ...
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... moft happily con- ceived , or moft diligently laboured ; and I know not whether there does not appear fome- thing more studied and artificial in his pro- ductions than the reft , except one long Let- ter by Bolingbroke , compofed with ...
... moft happily con- ceived , or moft diligently laboured ; and I know not whether there does not appear fome- thing more studied and artificial in his pro- ductions than the reft , except one long Let- ter by Bolingbroke , compofed with ...
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... moft impudent man living . his own He brought fome reproach upon memory by the petulant and contemptuous mention made in his will of Mr. Allen , and an affected repayment of his benefactions . Mrs. Blount , as the known friend and fa ...
... moft impudent man living . his own He brought fome reproach upon memory by the petulant and contemptuous mention made in his will of Mr. Allen , and an affected repayment of his benefactions . Mrs. Blount , as the known friend and fa ...
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Addiſon addreffed afterwards againſt almoſt appears aſked becauſe beſt Bolingbroke cenfure character compofition confequence confiderable confidered converfation criticiſm criticks curiofity defign defire diction diſcover Dryden Dunciad eafily Edward Young Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftanza ftate ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed furely higheſt himſelf hiſtory honour houſe Iliad increaſe kindneſs labour laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters lived Lord Lyttelton Mallet mind moft moſt muſt never Night Thoughts numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion perfons perfuaded perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed raiſed reader reafon ſay ſeems ſhe ſhould ſome ſtate ſtudy ſuch theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thouſand tion tranflation unkle uſed verfe verfion verſes vifit whofe whoſe wiſh write written Young
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Stran 333 - though it be not equal to the former: I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will fay 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, fhe averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I lov'd
Stran 171 - If the flights of Dry den 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 conftant. Dryden often furpaffes expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent aftonifhment, and Pope with perpetual delight, This parallel will, I hope, when it is well
Stran 66 - and had given him ten guineas after " they were publifhed. The next day , while " I was heated with what I had heard, I " Wrote a Letter to Mr. Addifon, to let him " know that I was not unacquainted with this " behaviour of his; that if I was to fpeak
Stran 440 - in medical reputation, but never attained any great extent of practice, or eminence of popularity. A phyfician in a great city feems to be the mere play-thing of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the moft part, totally cafual : they that employ him, know not his excellence; they that reject him, know not his
Stran 228 - and not a mafter taught, Whofe art was nature, and whofe pictures thought} Now for two ages, having fnatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er was great, Lies crown'd with Princes honours. Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirft of praife. Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie
Stran 82 - them, either the bookfellers would " not find their account in employing them, " or the men themfelves, when difcovered, " want courage to proceed in fo unlawful an " occupation. This it was that gave birth "to the. Dunciad; and he thought it an " happinefs, that, by the late flood of flander " on himfelf, he had acquired fuch a
Stran 231 - and friend to learned cafe, Content with fcience 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 feaft rofe fatisfy'd, Thank'd heaven that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. The
Stran 330 - in living againft his will in " retirement, and in a place which his tafte " had adorned; but which he only enjoyed " when people of note came to fee and com" mend it: his correfpondence is about no" thing elfe but this place and his own " writings, with two or three neighbouring •" clergymen, who wrote verfes too."
Stran 49 - in their tents the Grecian leaders lie; Th' Immortals flumber'd on their thrones above, All but the ever-watchful eye of Jove, To honour Thetis' fon he bends his care, And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war. Then bids an empty phantom rife to fight, And thus commands the vifion of the night:
Stran 171 - neceffity; he compofed without confideration, and publifhed without correction. What his mind could fupply at call, or gather in one excurfion, was all that he fought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condenfe his fentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that ftudy might produce, or chance might fupply. If the flights of