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... at his disgrace and loss , went to Swift , and demanded whether he was the author of that poem ? " Mr. Bettesworth , " answered he , " I was in my youth acquainted with great law- yers , who , knowing my disposition to satire , 32 SWIFT .
... at his disgrace and loss , went to Swift , and demanded whether he was the author of that poem ? " Mr. Bettesworth , " answered he , " I was in my youth acquainted with great law- yers , who , knowing my disposition to satire , 32 SWIFT .
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In Twelve Volumes Samuel Johnson. yers , who , knowing my disposition to satire , advised me , that if any scoundrel or blockhead whom I had lampooned should ask , Are you the author of this paper ? ' I should tell him that I was not the ...
In Twelve Volumes Samuel Johnson. yers , who , knowing my disposition to satire , advised me , that if any scoundrel or blockhead whom I had lampooned should ask , Are you the author of this paper ? ' I should tell him that I was not the ...
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... satire on Addison . Mr. Addison used me very civilly ever after . " * The verses on Addison , when they were sent to At- terbury , were considered by him as the most excellent of Pope's performances ; and the writer was advised , since ...
... satire on Addison . Mr. Addison used me very civilly ever after . " * The verses on Addison , when they were sent to At- terbury , were considered by him as the most excellent of Pope's performances ; and the writer was advised , since ...
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... satirical powers by publishing the Dunciad , one of his greatest and most elaborate performances , in which he endea ... satire had the effect which he intended , by blasting the characters which it touched . Ralph , who , unnecessarily ...
... satirical powers by publishing the Dunciad , one of his greatest and most elaborate performances , in which he endea ... satire had the effect which he intended , by blasting the characters which it touched . Ralph , who , unnecessarily ...
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... Satires , which was recommended to him by the duke of Shrewsbury and the earl of Ox- ford . They made no great impression on the public . Pope seems to have known their imbecility , and there- fore suppressed them while he was yet ...
... Satires , which was recommended to him by the duke of Shrewsbury and the earl of Ox- ford . They made no great impression on the public . Pope seems to have known their imbecility , and there- fore suppressed them while he was yet ...
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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