PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS.1781 |
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... Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this de- nunciation was the motive of Swift's per- petual malevolence to Dryden .. In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with In 12 SWIFT . fived on together with mutual fatisfac- ...
... Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this de- nunciation was the motive of Swift's per- petual malevolence to Dryden .. In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with In 12 SWIFT . fived on together with mutual fatisfac- ...
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... feven pounds a year for her life . With thefe Ladies he paffed his hours of relaxation , and to them he opened * his bofom ; but they never refided in the fame 2 his SWIFT . 15 Meath, which together did not equal ...
... feven pounds a year for her life . With thefe Ladies he paffed his hours of relaxation , and to them he opened * his bofom ; but they never refided in the fame 2 his SWIFT . 15 Meath, which together did not equal ...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON. his bofom ; but they never refided in the fame houfe , nor did he fee either without a witnefs . They lived at the Parfonage , when Swift was away ; and when he re- turned , removed to a lodging , or to the houfe of a ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON. his bofom ; but they never refided in the fame houfe , nor did he fee either without a witnefs . They lived at the Parfonage , when Swift was away ; and when he re- turned , removed to a lodging , or to the houfe of a ...
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... never owned by himself , nor very well proved by any evi- dence ; but no other claimant can be produced , and he did not deny it when Archbishop Sharpe and the Duchefs of Somerfet , by fhewing it to the Queen , debarred him from a ...
... never owned by himself , nor very well proved by any evi- dence ; but no other claimant can be produced , and he did not deny it when Archbishop Sharpe and the Duchefs of Somerfet , by fhewing it to the Queen , debarred him from a ...
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... never be able to fhine , or diftinguish themselves , upon any other " fubject ? We are daily complaining " of the great decline of wit among us , and would take away the greatest , 66 perhaps the only , topick we have left . " Who would ...
... never be able to fhine , or diftinguish themselves , upon any other " fubject ? We are daily complaining " of the great decline of wit among us , and would take away the greatest , 66 perhaps the only , topick we have left . " Who would ...
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affiftance afterwards againſt becauſe Beggar's Opera Bettefworth Broome cenfured church confidered converfation deanery death defire Delany diction difcontent dili Dublin Dunciad eafily Engliſh fafe faid fame fatire fays fchool fecond feems feldom fent fervant ferved feven fhew fhould fince firft firſt folicitations fome fomething fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftate ftill ftory ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently funk fuppofed fure gave himſelf houfe houſe Iliad increaſed inftruction intereft Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT kindneſs ladies laft laſt leaſt lefs mafter Minifters moſt muſt neceffary nefs never obferves occafion Orrery paffed paffion Paftoral PARNELL perfuaded Philips pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poffeffion Pope Pope's praiſe prefent princess of Wales profe publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen reader reafon refolution ſeems Spence Spenfer ſtudy Swift Tatler tences thefe Theocritus thofe thoſe thought tion told tranflation univerfally uſed verfes vifit Whigs whofe write written wrote
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الصفحة 13 - We were all at the first night of it in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say: "it will do, — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them.
الصفحة 15 - His character, therefore, must be formed from the multiplicity and diversity of his attainments, rather than from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had not divided his powers, to different pursuits.
الصفحة 84 - ... him ; the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things : he is neither required to mount elevations nor to explore profundities; his passage is always on a level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction.
الصفحة 6 - ... language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness. What such an author has told, who would tell again? I have made an abstract from his larger narrative; and have this gratification from my attempt, that it gives me an opportunity of paying due tribute to the memory of Goldsmith.
الصفحة 10 - ... for children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction, adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life. Every man, acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combatting Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent...
الصفحة 61 - Travels ;" a production so new and strange, that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement. It was received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity.
الصفحة 94 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in,
الصفحة 15 - Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her puhlifhed; and pamphlets made even of her fayings and jefts. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that feafon, the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
الصفحة 21 - What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject. We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?
الصفحة 3 - Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to soothe his mind, and aid his restoration to health...