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... performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting whatever he observed ; for such a number of ...
... performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting whatever he observed ; for such a number of ...
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... performances at the same age . His time was now wholly spent in reading and writing . As he read the classics , he amused himself with translating them ; and at fourteen made a version of the first book of The Thebais , which , with ...
... performances at the same age . His time was now wholly spent in reading and writing . As he read the classics , he amused himself with translating them ; and at fourteen made a version of the first book of The Thebais , which , with ...
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... performances received no improve- ment from his maturer studies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wycher- ley , a man who seems to have had among his contempo- raries his full share of reputation , to have been esteem- ed ...
... performances received no improve- ment from his maturer studies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wycher- ley , a man who seems to have had among his contempo- raries his full share of reputation , to have been esteem- ed ...
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... performances which strike with wonder are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents should happen twice to the same POPE .
... performances which strike with wonder are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity like the discovery of a new race of preternatural agents should happen twice to the same POPE .
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... performance , never testified any curiosity to see him , and who professed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked . The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : " I think at first sight that his performance is very ...
... performance , never testified any curiosity to see him , and who professed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked . The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : " I think at first sight that his performance is very ...
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Página 155 - Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 253 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Página 94 - 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.
Página 190 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Página 154 - He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Página 188 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 334 - There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science.
Página 336 - As a writer he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Página 42 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.
Página 134 - .I never in my " life knew a man that had so tender a heart for " his particular friends, or more general friendship