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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... readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern English . He tranflated likewise the Epiftle of Sappho to Phaon ...
... readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern English . He tranflated likewise the Epiftle of Sappho to Phaon ...
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... readers of Homer the number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the mufick of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical translation of Eobanus Heffus , an un- wearied ...
... readers of Homer the number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the mufick of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical translation of Eobanus Heffus , an un- wearied ...
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... readers . Euftathius was therefore ne- ceffarily confulted . To read Euftathius , of whose work there was then no Latin verfion , I fufpect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; fome other was therefore to be found ...
... readers . Euftathius was therefore ne- ceffarily confulted . To read Euftathius , of whose work there was then no Latin verfion , I fufpect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; fome other was therefore to be found ...
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... reader knows not what they have blotted . Pope's voracity of fame taught him the art of obtaining the accumulated honour both of what he had published , and of what he had fuppreffed . In this year his father died fuddenly , in his ...
... reader knows not what they have blotted . Pope's voracity of fame taught him the art of obtaining the accumulated honour both of what he had published , and of what he had fuppreffed . In this year his father died fuddenly , in his ...
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... readers . Many of the allufions required illustration ; the names were often expreffed only by the ini- tial and final letters , and , if they had been printed at length , were fuch as few had known or recollected . The fubject itfelf ...
... readers . Many of the allufions required illustration ; the names were often expreffed only by the ini- tial and final letters , and , if they had been printed at length , were fuch as few had known or recollected . The fubject itfelf ...
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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.