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 páginas |
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... appear to have ever made much ufe in his fubfequent ftudies . He then returned to Binfield , and delighted himself with his own poetry . He tried all ftyles , and many fubjects . He wrote a comedy , a tragedy , an epick poem , with ...
... appear to have ever made much ufe in his fubfequent ftudies . He then returned to Binfield , and delighted himself with his own poetry . He tried all ftyles , and many fubjects . He wrote a comedy , a tragedy , an epick poem , with ...
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... appears to have been fufficiently extenfive and multifarious ; for his early pieces fhew , with fufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily ima- gines that he shall please others . Sir Wil ...
... appears to have been fufficiently extenfive and multifarious ; for his early pieces fhew , with fufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily ima- gines that he shall please others . Sir Wil ...
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... appear natural ; but if this or- der be reverfed , another mode of connection equally fpecious may be found or made . Aristotle is praised for naming Fortitude first of the cardinal virtues , as that without which no other virtue can ...
... appear natural ; but if this or- der be reverfed , another mode of connection equally fpecious may be found or made . Aristotle is praised for naming Fortitude first of the cardinal virtues , as that without which no other virtue can ...
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... appear that she had any claim to praise , nor much to compaffion . She feems to have been impatient , violent , and ungovernable . Her unkle's power could not have lafted long ; the hour of liberty and choice would have come in time ...
... appear that she had any claim to praise , nor much to compaffion . She feems to have been impatient , violent , and ungovernable . Her unkle's power could not have lafted long ; the hour of liberty and choice would have come in time ...
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... appears that about this time Pope had a strong inclination to unite the art of Paint- ing with that of Poetry , and put himself under the tuition of Jervas . He was near- fighted , and therefore not formed by nature for a painter : he ...
... appears that about this time Pope had a strong inclination to unite the art of Paint- ing with that of Poetry , and put himself under the tuition of Jervas . He was near- fighted , and therefore not formed by nature for a painter : he ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 120 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 324 - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.