The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, 1821 |
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... known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encouragement to men whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their passions or pleasures , and who having lost one ...
... known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encouragement to men whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their passions or pleasures , and who having lost one ...
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... known to King William , who sometimes visited Temple , when he was disabled by the gout , and , being attended by Swift in the garden , showed him how to cut asparagus in the Dutch way . King William's notions were all military ; and he ...
... known to King William , who sometimes visited Temple , when he was disabled by the gout , and , being attended by Swift in the garden , showed him how to cut asparagus in the Dutch way . King William's notions were all military ; and he ...
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... known to have read , among other books , " Cyprian " and " Irenæus . " He thought exercise of great necessity , and used to run half a mile up and down a hill every two hours . It is easy to imagine that the mode in which his first ...
... known to have read , among other books , " Cyprian " and " Irenæus . " He thought exercise of great necessity , and used to run half a mile up and down a hill every two hours . It is easy to imagine that the mode in which his first ...
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... known influence has so many pe- titions which he cannot grant , that he must ne- cessarily offend more than he gratifies , because the preference given to one affords all the rest reason for complaint . " When I give away a place ...
... known influence has so many pe- titions which he cannot grant , that he must ne- cessarily offend more than he gratifies , because the preference given to one affords all the rest reason for complaint . " When I give away a place ...
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... known ; and such was the increase of his re- putation , that the Scottish " Nation applied again that he would be their friend . " He was become so formidable to the Whigs , that his familiarity with the Ministers was clamoured at in ...
... known ; and such was the increase of his re- putation , that the Scottish " Nation applied again that he would be their friend . " He was become so formidable to the Whigs , that his familiarity with the Ministers was clamoured at in ...
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Pàgina 171 - 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.
Pàgina 214 - THIS modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, * Here lies an honest man :' A poet, bless'd beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Pàgina 134 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pàgina 172 - Hill, with some attention to Waller's poem on The Park ; but Pope cannot be denied to excel his masters in variety and elegance, and the art of interchanging description, narrative, and morality. The objection made by Dennis is the want of plan, of a regular subordination of parts terminating in the principal and original design. There is this want in most descriptive poems, because as the scenes, which they must exhibit successively, are .all subsisting at the same time, the order in which they...
Pàgina 370 - 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, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study ; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting,...
Pàgina 133 - 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 brilliance of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Pàgina 132 - This mode of imitation, in which the ancients are familiarised, by adapting their sentiments to modern topicks, by making Horace say of Shakespeare what he originally said of Ennius, and accommodating his satires on Pantolabus and Nomentanus to the flatterers and prodigals of our own time, was first practised in the reign of Charles the Second by Oldham and Rochester, at least I remember no instances more ancient. It is a kind of middle composition between translation and original design, which pleases...
Pàgina 168 - He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Pàgina 52 - Bathos," as a proficient in the "Art of Sinking; and in his enumeration of the different kinds of poets distinguished for the profound, he reckons Broome " among the Parrots who repeat another's words " in such a hoarse odd tone as makes them seem