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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... dying , in the fervice of Charles the Firft ; the third was made a general officer in Spain , from whom the fifter inherited what fequeftrations and forfeitures had left in the family , B 2 This , This , and this only , is told by Pope ...
... dying , in the fervice of Charles the Firft ; the third was made a general officer in Spain , from whom the fifter inherited what fequeftrations and forfeitures had left in the family , B 2 This , This , and this only , is told by Pope ...
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... died May 1 , 1701 , fome days be- fore Pope was twelve ; fo early muft he there- fore have felt the power of harmony , and the zeal of genius . Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him ...
... died May 1 , 1701 , fome days be- fore Pope was twelve ; fo early muft he there- fore have felt the power of harmony , and the zeal of genius . Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him ...
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Samuel Johnson. kindness , and visited him a little time before he died . Another of his early correfpondents was Mr. Cromwell , of whom I have learned no- thing particular but that he used to ride a - hunting in a tye - wig . He was ...
Samuel Johnson. kindness , and visited him a little time before he died . Another of his early correfpondents was Mr. Cromwell , of whom I have learned no- thing particular but that he used to ride a - hunting in a tye - wig . He was ...
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... died fuddenly , in his seventy - fifth year , having paffed twenty- nine years in privacy . He is not known but by the character which his fon has given him . If the money with which he retired was all gotten by himself , he had traded ...
... died fuddenly , in his seventy - fifth year , having paffed twenty- nine years in privacy . He is not known but by the character which his fon has given him . If the money with which he retired was all gotten by himself , he had traded ...
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... died , he left him the property of his works ; a legacy which may be reasonably estimated at four thousand pounds . Pope's fondness for the Effay on Man ap- peared by his defire of its propagation . Dob- fon , who had gained reputation ...
... died , he left him the property of his works ; a legacy which may be reasonably estimated at four thousand pounds . Pope's fondness for the Effay on Man ap- peared by his defire of its propagation . Dob- fon , who had gained reputation ...
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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.