The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Waller. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 من الصفحات |
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... say that he could not remember the time when he began to make verses . In the ftyle of fiction it might have been faid of him as of Pindar , that when he lay in his cradle , the bees fwarm- ed about his mouth . About the time of the ...
... say that he could not remember the time when he began to make verses . In the ftyle of fiction it might have been faid of him as of Pindar , that when he lay in his cradle , the bees fwarm- ed about his mouth . About the time of the ...
الصفحة 52
... Say , Virgins , feated round the throne divine , All - knowing Goddeffes ! immortal Nine ! Since earth's wide regions , heaven's unmeafur'd height , And hell's abyfs , hide nothing from your fight , ( We , wretched mortals ! loft in ...
... Say , Virgins , feated round the throne divine , All - knowing Goddeffes ! immortal Nine ! Since earth's wide regions , heaven's unmeafur'd height , And hell's abyfs , hide nothing from your fight , ( We , wretched mortals ! loft in ...
الصفحة 91
... says Juvenal , that a man will not believe in his own favour . Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers in the fyftem of life . When he talked of laying down his pen , thofe who fat round him laying POPE .
... says Juvenal , that a man will not believe in his own favour . Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers in the fyftem of life . When he talked of laying down his pen , thofe who fat round him laying POPE .
الصفحة 99
... says War- burton , to every man , except him only who could write it . Those who like only when they like the author , and who are under the dominion of a name , condemned it ; and those admired it who are willing to scatter praife H 2 ...
... says War- burton , to every man , except him only who could write it . Those who like only when they like the author , and who are under the dominion of a name , condemned it ; and those admired it who are willing to scatter praife H 2 ...
الصفحة 131
... what he had faid of one he was ready to say of another , he reduced himself to the infignificance of his own magpye , who from his cage calls cuckold at a venture . K 2 Cibber , Cibber , according to his engagement , re- paid the POPE .
... what he had faid of one he was ready to say of another , he reduced himself to the infignificance of his own magpye , who from his cage calls cuckold at a venture . K 2 Cibber , Cibber , according to his engagement , re- paid the POPE .
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Addiſon addreffed afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer appear aſked becauſe beſt Bolingbroke cenfure character compofition confequence confiderable confidered criticiſm criticks curiofity deferved defign defire diſcovered Dryden Dunciad eaſily eaſy Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph Eſſay fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed furely greateſt higheſt himſelf honour houſe Iliad increaſe kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters Lord Lyttelton Mallet mind moſt muſt never Night Thoughts numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion Paftorals paſs perfons perfuaded perhaps Pindar pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon ſay ſeems ſhe ſome ſtage ſtate ſtudy thefe theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thouſand tion tranflation unkle uſed verfe verfion verſes whofe whoſe wiſh write written Young
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الصفحة 143 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
الصفحة 172 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
الصفحة 120 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 142 - Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak as to stand in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely sensible of cold, so that he wore a kind of fur doublet under a shirt of a very coarse warm linen with fine sleeves.
الصفحة 166 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
الصفحة 438 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
الصفحة 324 - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.
الصفحة 485 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
الصفحة 123 - If the whole may be estimated by this specimen, which seems to be the production of Arbuthnot, with a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more will not be much lamented; for the follies which the writer ridicules are so little practised, that they are not known...
الصفحة 291 - But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.