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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... to himself new fources of knowledge , by making himself ac- quainted with modern languages ; and removed for a B 3 time time to London , that he might ftudy French and POPE . 5 THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS, Concluded.
... to himself new fources of knowledge , by making himself ac- quainted with modern languages ; and removed for a B 3 time time to London , that he might ftudy French and POPE . 5 THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS, Concluded.
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... languages . I have read of a man , who being , by his ignorance of Greek , com- pelled to gratify his curiofity with the Latin printed on the oppofite page , declared that from the rude fim- plicity of the lines literally rendered , he ...
... languages . I have read of a man , who being , by his ignorance of Greek , com- pelled to gratify his curiofity with the Latin printed on the oppofite page , declared that from the rude fim- plicity of the lines literally rendered , he ...
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... language ; but thofe who read it did not talk of it . Not much therefore was added by it to fame or envy ; nor do I remember that it produced either publick praife , or publick cenfure . It had however , in fome degree , the ...
... language ; but thofe who read it did not talk of it . Not much therefore was added by it to fame or envy ; nor do I remember that it produced either publick praife , or publick cenfure . It had however , in fome degree , the ...
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... language , but wifhed to compel rather than perfuade . His ftyle is copious without felection , and forcible without neatnefs ; he took the words that prefented themselves his diction is coarfe and impure , and his fentences are ...
... language , but wifhed to compel rather than perfuade . His ftyle is copious without felection , and forcible without neatnefs ; he took the words that prefented themselves his diction is coarfe and impure , and his fentences are ...
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... language , and , if fuffered to remain without notice , would have been very foon forgotten . Pope had now been enough acquainted with human life to know , if his paffion had not been too powerful for his understanding , that , from a ...
... language , and , if fuffered to remain without notice , would have been very foon forgotten . Pope had now been enough acquainted with human life to know , if his paffion had not been too powerful for his understanding , that , from a ...
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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.