The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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الصفحة 30
... Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will of Jove . Whofe limbs , unburied on the hostile fhore , Devouring dogs and greedy vultures tore , Since first Atrides and Achilles ftrove ; Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will ...
... Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will of Jove . Whofe limbs , unburied on the hostile fhore , Devouring dogs and greedy vultures tore , Since first Atrides and Achilles ftrove ; Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will ...
الصفحة 34
... Such glories Pallas on her chief bestow'd , Such fparkling rays from his bright armour flow'd , Such from his arms the fierce effulgence flow'd , Onward the drives him beadlong to engage , furious Where the war bleeds , and where the ...
... Such glories Pallas on her chief bestow'd , Such fparkling rays from his bright armour flow'd , Such from his arms the fierce effulgence flow'd , Onward the drives him beadlong to engage , furious Where the war bleeds , and where the ...
الصفحة 39
... such a state of elevation , that , like the two rivals in the Roman ftate , one could no longer bear an equal , nor the other a fuperior . Of the gradual abatement of kindnefs between friends , the beginning is often scarcely ...
... such a state of elevation , that , like the two rivals in the Roman ftate , one could no longer bear an equal , nor the other a fuperior . Of the gradual abatement of kindnefs between friends , the beginning is often scarcely ...
الصفحة 60
... Such care had been taken to make them publick , that they were fent at once to two book fellers ; to Curll , who was likely to feize them as a prey ; and to Lintot , who might be expected to give Pope information of the feeming injury ...
... Such care had been taken to make them publick , that they were fent at once to two book fellers ; to Curll , who was likely to feize them as a prey ; and to Lintot , who might be expected to give Pope information of the feeming injury ...
الصفحة 68
... Such opinions are often admitted , and difmiffed , with- out nice examination . Who is there that has not found reafon for changing his mind about questions of greater importance ? Warburton , whatever was his motive , undertook ...
... Such opinions are often admitted , and difmiffed , with- out nice examination . Who is there that has not found reafon for changing his mind about questions of greater importance ? Warburton , whatever was his motive , undertook ...
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الصفحة 91 - 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 109 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
الصفحة 308 - Yet even these bones," are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
الصفحة 206 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
الصفحة 309 - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.
الصفحة 109 - 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 45 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
الصفحة 80 - Man, of which he has given this account to Dr. Swift. 'March 25, 1736. 'If ever I write any more Epistles in verse, one of them shall be addressed to you. I have long concerted it, and begun it; but I would make what bears your name as finished as my last work ought to be, that is to say, more finished than any of the rest. The subject is large, and will divide into four Epistles, which naturally follow the Essay on Man, viz.
الصفحة 110 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant.
الصفحة 154 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.