The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... images , feizing all that his authors prefented with un- diftinguishing voracity , and with an ap- petite for knowledge too eager to be nice . In a mind like his , however , all the faculties were at once involuntarily im- improving ...
... images , feizing all that his authors prefented with un- diftinguishing voracity , and with an ap- petite for knowledge too eager to be nice . In a mind like his , however , all the faculties were at once involuntarily im- improving ...
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... images 4 merely natural cannot beftow . The gloom of a convent ftrikes the imagi- nation with far greater force than the folitude of a grove . This piece was , however , not much his favourite in his latter years , though I never heard ...
... images 4 merely natural cannot beftow . The gloom of a convent ftrikes the imagi- nation with far greater force than the folitude of a grove . This piece was , however , not much his favourite in his latter years , though I never heard ...
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... images and ex- preffions , and practice increafed his fa- cility of verfification . In a fhort time he reprefents himself as difpatching re- gularly fifty verfes a day , which would fhew him by an eafy computation the termination of his ...
... images and ex- preffions , and practice increafed his fa- cility of verfification . In a fhort time he reprefents himself as difpatching re- gularly fifty verfes a day , which would fhew him by an eafy computation the termination of his ...
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... and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produce ambiguity in diction , and obfcurity in books . To this open difplay of unadulterated na- ture it must be this POPE . 59 gular education, and a courfe of life of ...
... and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produce ambiguity in diction , and obfcurity in books . To this open difplay of unadulterated na- ture it must be this POPE . 59 gular education, and a courfe of life of ...
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... image in clay , to execute him in " effigy , with which fad fort of fatisfac- " tions the gentlemen were a little com- " forted . " Some falfe editions of the book " having an owl in their frontispiece , " the true one , to distinguish ...
... image in clay , to execute him in " effigy , with which fad fort of fatisfac- " tions the gentlemen were a little com- " forted . " Some falfe editions of the book " having an owl in their frontispiece , " the true one , to distinguish ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addifon affiftance afked afterwards againſt Atrides becauſe Binfield Bleft Bolingbroke cenfure character Cibber compofition confeffed confiderable confidered criticiſm criticks defign defire Dennis difcovered Dryden Dunciad eafily Effay elegance English Epiftle epitaph facred fafe faid fame fatire fays feems feen felected fenfe fent fhall fhew fhewn fhould firft firſt folicitation fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftill ftudies fubfcription fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fufpect fupplied fuppofed furely himſelf Homer honour Iliad illuftration intereft kindneſs laft learning lefs Letters loft Lord Lord Halifax mafter ment mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary nefs never numbers o'er obferved Ovid paffages paffion perfons perfuaded perhaps perufal pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's powers praife praiſe prefent printed profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſed readers reafon rife thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation ufed unkle uſed verfes verfion verſes Warburton whofe write written
Pasajes populares
Página 347 - As Gay was the favourite of our author, this epitaph was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more successfully executed than the rest, for it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labour.
Página 212 - 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 256 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 246 - 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 76 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
Página 315 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Página 255 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 252 - ... none to himself. 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 85 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Página 252 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...