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. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 |
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Stran 28
... thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when he could touch the ground . It cannot be observed without wonder , that a mind so vigorous and fertile ...
... thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when he could touch the ground . It cannot be observed without wonder , that a mind so vigorous and fertile ...
Stran 38
... things , and are form- ed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten tract of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute gram- marians and ...
... things , and are form- ed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten tract of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute gram- marians and ...
Stran 39
... thing useful and ornamental ; whence his character is the reverse to theirs , who have eminent abilities in insignificant knowledge , and a great felicity in finding out trifles . He is no less industri- ous to search out the merit of ...
... thing useful and ornamental ; whence his character is the reverse to theirs , who have eminent abilities in insignificant knowledge , and a great felicity in finding out trifles . He is no less industri- ous to search out the merit of ...
Stran 41
... things beside , agreed in their turn to show particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his coun- try , till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impu- nity , but triumphs in his dignity ...
... things beside , agreed in their turn to show particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his coun- try , till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impu- nity , but triumphs in his dignity ...
Stran 46
... things fill'd , That the tumultuous waves of chaos still'd ; Whose nod dispos'd the jarring seeds to peace , And made the wars of hostile atoms cease . All beings , we in fruitful nature find , Proceeded from the Great Eternal Mind ...
... things fill'd , That the tumultuous waves of chaos still'd ; Whose nod dispos'd the jarring seeds to peace , And made the wars of hostile atoms cease . All beings , we in fruitful nature find , Proceeded from the Great Eternal Mind ...
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acquaintance Addison afterward appeared blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character Cibber coffeehouse considered contempt conversation criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden duke Dunciad edition elegance endeavoured epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship gave genius honour hope Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning lence letter lines lived lord Bolingbroke lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza subscription sufficient supposed Swift Theophilus Cibber Thomson tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY whigs Winchester college 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.