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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... ment , ambition , or caprice , might separate them ; he was therefore resolved to make " assurance double sure , " and to appropriate her by a private marriage , to which he had annexed the expecta- tion of all the pleasures of perfect ...
... ment , ambition , or caprice , might separate them ; he was therefore resolved to make " assurance double sure , " and to appropriate her by a private marriage , to which he had annexed the expecta- tion of all the pleasures of perfect ...
Pàgina 34
... ment ; for , having by some ridiculous resolution , or mad vow , determined never to wear spectacles , he could make little use of books in his latter years ; his ideas therefore , being neither renovated by dis- course , nor increased ...
... ment ; for , having by some ridiculous resolution , or mad vow , determined never to wear spectacles , he could make little use of books in his latter years ; his ideas therefore , being neither renovated by dis- course , nor increased ...
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... ment , but his humour . It was said , in a Preface to one of the Irish edi- tions , that Swift had never been known to take a single thought from any writer , ancient or modern . This is not literally true ; but perhaps no writer can ...
... ment , but his humour . It was said , in a Preface to one of the Irish edi- tions , that Swift had never been known to take a single thought from any writer , ancient or modern . This is not literally true ; but perhaps no writer can ...
Pàgina 53
... ment to recall the verses of some former poet . Sometimes he copies the most popular writers , for he seems scarcely to endeavour at concealment ; and sometimes he picks up fragments in obscure His lines to Fenton , corners . Serene ...
... ment to recall the verses of some former poet . Sometimes he copies the most popular writers , for he seems scarcely to endeavour at concealment ; and sometimes he picks up fragments in obscure His lines to Fenton , corners . Serene ...
Pàgina 65
... ment . So far Dennis is undoubtedly right ; but not content with argument , he will have a little mirth , and triumphs over the first couplet in terms too elegant to be forgotten . By the way , what rare numbers are here ! Would not one ...
... ment . So far Dennis is undoubtedly right ; but not content with argument , he will have a little mirth , and triumphs over the first couplet in terms too elegant to be forgotten . By the way , what rare numbers are here ! Would not one ...
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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