Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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Pàgina 27
... pleased himself with blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise ...
... pleased himself with blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise ...
Pàgina 29
... pleased with that work . But to judge rightly of the other requires a perfect mastery of poetry and criticism , a just contempt of the little turns and witticisms now in vogue , and , above all , a perfect understanding of poetical ...
... pleased with that work . But to judge rightly of the other requires a perfect mastery of poetry and criticism , a just contempt of the little turns and witticisms now in vogue , and , above all , a perfect understanding of poetical ...
Pàgina 30
... pleased with con- templating a beau , the other a hero : even from the same object they would draw different ideas ; Achilles would appear in very different lights to Thersites and Alexander , -the one would admire the courage and great ...
... pleased with con- templating a beau , the other a hero : even from the same object they would draw different ideas ; Achilles would appear in very different lights to Thersites and Alexander , -the one would admire the courage and great ...
Pàgina 31
... pleased with a glare of false thoughts , little turns , and unnatural fustian - at an age at which Cowley , Dryden , and I had almost said Virgil , were inconsiderable ? So soon was his imagination at its full strength , his judgment ...
... pleased with a glare of false thoughts , little turns , and unnatural fustian - at an age at which Cowley , Dryden , and I had almost said Virgil , were inconsiderable ? So soon was his imagination at its full strength , his judgment ...
Pàgina 43
... without interruption or con- fusion . Some indeed of his acquaintance , who were pleased to distin- guish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others ,
... without interruption or con- fusion . Some indeed of his acquaintance , who were pleased to distin- guish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others ,
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Pàgina 145 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always temembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.
Pàgina 75 - A true Account and Declaration of the horrid Conspiracy against the late King, his present Majesty, and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient, after the Revolution, to extenuate and excuse.
Pàgina 351 - Spanish, but with little better success than before; for though it was received and acted, yet it appeared so late in the year that the author obtained no other advantage from it than the acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Wilks, by whom he was pitied, caressed, and relieved. Sir Richard Steele, having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character, promoted his interest with the utmost zeal, related his misfortunes, applauded his merit, took all...
Pàgina 413 - Once, when he was without lodging, meat, or clothes, one of his friends, a man not indeed remarkable for moderation in his prosperity, left a message, that he desired to see him about nine in the morning. Savage knew that his intention was to...
Pàgina 58 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Pàgina 137 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
Pàgina 154 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.
Pàgina 131 - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Pàgina 292 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil.
Pàgina 288 - will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his life became in danger.