The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 6
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen anything like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen anything like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
Pàgina 7
... kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history , which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design ...
... kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history , which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design ...
Pàgina 11
... kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
... kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
Pàgina 24
... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could per- form in opposition to Learning , on a question which ...
... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could per- form in opposition to Learning , on a question which ...
Pàgina 31
... kind , and that each has its distinct and characteristical excellence . My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but ...
... kind , and that each has its distinct and characteristical excellence . My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but ...
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Pàgina 19 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Pàgina 148 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Pàgina 163 - A New Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
Pàgina 222 - ... 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 the opportunities of recommending him, and asserted, that J ' the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father.
Pàgina 66 - The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.
Pàgina 104 - It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Pàgina 88 - About things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or assuages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.
Pàgina 184 - Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England ; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Pàgina 30 - ... was expressed by a loud hum, continued in proportion to their zeal or pleasure. When Burnet preached, part of his congregation hummed so loudly and so long, that he sat down to enjoy it, and rubbed his face with his handkerchief. When Sprat preached, he likewise was honoured with the like animating hum ; but he stretched out his hand to the congregation, and cried, " Peace, peace, I pray you peace.
Pàgina 20 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions, such as are not often found — with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr 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.