The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen3J. Nichols and son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1806 |
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... died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained , from King William , a promife of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift ...
... died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained , from King William , a promife of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift ...
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... died Mrs. Van Homrigh , a woman made unhappy by her admiration of wit , and ignominiously diftinguished by the name of Vaneffa , whofe con- duct has been already fufficiently difcuffed , and whofe hiftory is too well known to be ...
... died Mrs. Van Homrigh , a woman made unhappy by her admiration of wit , and ignominiously diftinguished by the name of Vaneffa , whofe con- duct has been already fufficiently difcuffed , and whofe hiftory is too well known to be ...
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... died of disappoint- ment ; having ordered by her will the poem to be published , in which Cadenus had proclaimed her ex- cellence , and confeffed his love . The effect of the publication upon the Dean and Stella is thus related by ...
... died of disappoint- ment ; having ordered by her will the poem to be published , in which Cadenus had proclaimed her ex- cellence , and confeffed his love . The effect of the publication upon the Dean and Stella is thus related by ...
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... died in her forty - fourth year , on January 28 , 1728. How much he wifhed her life , his papers fhew ; nor can it be doubted that he dreaded the death of her whom he loved moft , aggravated by the confcioufnefs that himfelf had ...
... died in her forty - fourth year , on January 28 , 1728. How much he wifhed her life , his papers fhew ; nor can it be doubted that he dreaded the death of her whom he loved moft , aggravated by the confcioufnefs that himfelf had ...
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... died under the tyranny of him , by whom she was in the highest degree loved and ho- noured . What were her claims to this eccentrick tender- nefs , by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her , curiofity will enquire ; but ...
... died under the tyranny of him , by whom she was in the highest degree loved and ho- noured . What were her claims to this eccentrick tender- nefs , by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her , curiofity will enquire ; but ...
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Página 321 - words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion than even in the author; that the Chriftian was in him a character ftill more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime, than the poet; and that, in his ordinary converfation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky.
Página 84 - the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure fhed, And tip with filver every mountain's head ; Then ihine the vales, the rocks in profpeft rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the
Página 188 - that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwife than by afking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition which
Página 160 - circumference of fcience. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehenfive fpeculation ; and thofe of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the
Página 84 - The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflection of the diftant fires . Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand piles the dufky horrors gild, And
Página 227 - of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of
Página 103 - almoft all the letters of the alphabet (the '' greateft part of them at random :) but fuch was " the number of poets eminent in that art, that " fome one or other took every letter to himfelf: *' all fell into fo violent a fury, that, for half a year " or more, the common newfpapers (in moft of "which
Página 274 - charmer to vie j How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural ftrain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I
Página 79 - from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead ; The King of men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the King's offence the people dy'd. Declare, O Goddefs, what offended Power Enflam'd their rage, in that ill-omen d hour ; anger fatal,
Página 120 - ought never to have another anfwer, " and deferved not fo good an one. I can only fay, " you do him too much honour, and me too much " right, fo odd as the expreffion feems; for you '' have made my fyftem as clear as I ought to have '' done, and could not. It is indeed the fame