The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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... thing is faid of their fuccefs , feem to have recommended him to fome notice ; for his praise of the countefs's mufic , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford rea- fon for imagining that he was more or less converfant ...
... thing is faid of their fuccefs , feem to have recommended him to fome notice ; for his praise of the countefs's mufic , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford rea- fon for imagining that he was more or less converfant ...
Pàgina 4
... thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Lewis ; which at last did not produce effects propor- tionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior , in this splendid ini- tiation into public bufmefs , was fo ...
... thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Lewis ; which at last did not produce effects propor- tionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior , in this splendid ini- tiation into public bufmefs , was fo ...
Pàgina 9
... thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no profperous event paffed undignified by poetry . In the laft war , when France was difgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe , when Spain , coming to her ...
... thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no profperous event paffed undignified by poetry . In the laft war , when France was difgraced and overpowered in every quarter of the globe , when Spain , coming to her ...
Pàgina 16
... thing be more abfurd , " either . fays he , 86 66 or more inhuman , than to propose to me a question , by the answering of " which I might , according to them , << prove myself a traitor ? And notwithstand- ing their folemn promise ...
... thing be more abfurd , " either . fays he , 86 66 or more inhuman , than to propose to me a question , by the answering of " which I might , according to them , << prove myself a traitor ? And notwithstand- ing their folemn promise ...
Pàgina 18
... thing else . Whatever the profit of his em- ployments might have been , he had always fpent it ; and at the age of fifty - three was , with all his abilities , in danger of penury , having yet no folid revenue but from the fellowship of ...
... thing else . Whatever the profit of his em- ployments might have been , he had always fpent it ; and at the age of fifty - three was , with all his abilities , in danger of penury , having yet no folid revenue but from the fellowship of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 388 - Travels, a production fo new and ftrange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with fuch avidity, that the price of the firft edition was raifed before the fecond could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate.
Pàgina 403 - His Tale of a Tub has little refemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copioufnefs of images, and vivacity of diction, fuch as he afterwards never poflefled, or never exerted. It is of a mode fo diftinct and peculiar, that it . muft be
Pàgina 117 - acted in London fixty-three days " without interruption, and renewed the " next feafon with equal applaufe, it fpread " into all the great towns of England ; was " played in many places to the thirtieth and '* fortieth time ; at Bath and Briftol fifty, &c. '* It made its progrefs into Wales, Scotland, " and Ireland, where it was performed twen" ty-four days fucceffively. The ladies
Pàgina 227 - what revenge on Dennis can be had, Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad ? On one fo poor you cannot take the law, On one fo old your fword you fcorn to draw. Uncag'd then, let the harmlefs monfter rage, Secure in dulnefs, madnefs, want, and age,
Pàgina 117 - who fat in the next box to us, fay, " * It will do—it muft do! I fee it in the eyes *' of them.' This was a good while before '' the firft Act was over, and fo gave us eafe " foon; for that duke (befides his own good
Pàgina 150 - ftiade. And wreaths of myrtle crown the lovely maid. While now perhaps with Dido's ghoft fhe roves, And hears and tells the ftory of their loves, Alike they mourn, alike they blefs their fate, Since Love, which made them wretched, made them great. Nor longer that relentlefs doom bemoan, Which gain'da Virgil and an Addifon.
Pàgina 54 - for reafons either not known or not mentioned, he bequeathed a legacy of about ten thoufand pounds ; the accumulation of attentive parfimony, which, though to her fuperfluous and ufelefs, might have given great affiftance to the ancient family from which he defcended, at that time by the imprudence of his relation reduced to difficulties and diftrefs.
Pàgina 389 - Criticifm was for a while loft in wonder ; no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity. But when diftinctions came to be made, the part which gave leaft pleafure was that which defcribes the Flying I/land, and that which gave moft difguft muft be the hiftory of the
Pàgina 184 - chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to enquire ; but immediately feated himfelf with Sir Richard; the coachman was ordered to drive, and they hurried with the utmoft expedition to Hyde-Park Corner, where they
Pàgina 209 - upon that gentle" man, or remove any thing from us upon " him, or that we repine the more at our fate, " becaufe he has no participation of it: No, " my Lord ! For my part, I declare nothing *' could more foften my grief, than to be " without any companion in fo great a