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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... father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head , and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Efquire , of York , who had like- wife three fons , one of whom had the ho- nour of being killed , and the other ...
... father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head , and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Efquire , of York , who had like- wife three fons , one of whom had the ho- nour of being killed , and the other ...
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... father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade ; but whether in a fhop or on the Ex- change has never been discovered . Both pa- rents were papists . Pope was from his birth of a conftitu- tion tender and ...
... father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade ; but whether in a fhop or on the Ex- change has never been discovered . Both pa- rents were papists . Pope was from his birth of a conftitu- tion tender and ...
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... father when he was about twelve years old ; and there he had for a few months the affistance of one Deane , another prieft , of whom he Jearned only to conftrue a little of Tully's Of- fices . How Mr. Deane could fpend , with a boy who ...
... father when he was about twelve years old ; and there he had for a few months the affistance of one Deane , another prieft , of whom he Jearned only to conftrue a little of Tully's Of- fices . How Mr. Deane could fpend , with a boy who ...
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... father confequently had by law had " the abfolute difpofal of him , his life had " been no longer than that of one of his poems , the life of half a day . - Let the person of a gentleman of his parts be ne- ( ( ver fo contemptible , his ...
... father confequently had by law had " the abfolute difpofal of him , his life had " been no longer than that of one of his poems , the life of half a day . - Let the person of a gentleman of his parts be ne- ( ( ver fo contemptible , his ...
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... . The allowance which his father made him , though , proportioned to what he had , it might be liberal , could not be large ; his religion hindered him from the occupation of of any civil employment , and he complained that he 34 POPE .
... . The allowance which his father made him , though , proportioned to what he had , it might be liberal , could not be large ; his religion hindered him from the occupation of of any civil employment , and he complained that he 34 POPE .
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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.