Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2P.C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The Epistle to Boileau is not so happy ...
... excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The Epistle to Boileau is not so happy ...
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... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself sometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself sometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
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... excellence , that , for half a year be- fore it was acted , the manager allowed its author the privi- lege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who ...
... excellence , that , for half a year be- fore it was acted , the manager allowed its author the privi- lege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who ...
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... excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of admiration , when it is remembered that he had produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty - fifth year , before other men , even such as are some time to shine in ...
... excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of admiration , when it is remembered that he had produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty - fifth year , before other men , even such as are some time to shine in ...
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... excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion : his personages are a kind of ...
... excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion : his personages are a kind of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 298 - unbending corn, and skims along the main ; when he had enjoyed for about thirty years the praise of Camilla's lightness of foot, he tried another experiment upon sound and time, and produced this memorable triplet ; Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestick march, and energy divine.
Pàgina 27 - and still as death.—Tis dreadful I How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable, Looking tranquillity
Pàgina 292 - There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. Poetry was not the sole praise of either : for both excelled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style
Pàgina 315 - Just to his prince, and to his country true ; Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth ; A generous faith, from superstition free ; A love to peace, and hate of tyranny : Such this man was ; who now, from earth remov'd, 1
Pàgina 59 - been observing once to Mr-. Gay, what " an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might "make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some" time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write> "'a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise tO>
Pàgina 435 - by the Rev. Mr. Temple, rector of St. Gluvias in Cornwall : and am as willing as his warmest well-wisher to believe it true. " 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
Pàgina 291 - images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation ; and those of Pope
Pàgina 435 - or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in " science. He also had, in some degree, that weakness " which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congrevc : " though he seemed to value others chiefly according to " the progress that they had made in knowledge, yet he " could not bear to be considered merely as a man of
Pàgina 14 - many excellencies, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves; and the act of composition fills and delights
Pàgina 414 - too frequently vain. Before he returned to much of what he had once approved, he died. Many of his books, which I have seen, arc by those notes of approbation so swelled beyond their real bulk, that they will hardly shut. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ! Earth's highest station ends in Here he lies ! And