The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 3J. Nichols and son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1806 - English poetry |
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... shall it be gratified ? Swift was a lover ; his teftimony may be fufpected . Delany and the Irish faw with Swift's eyes , and therefore add little confirmation . That she was virtuous , beautiful , and elegant , in a very high degree ...
... shall it be gratified ? Swift was a lover ; his teftimony may be fufpected . Delany and the Irish faw with Swift's eyes , and therefore add little confirmation . That she was virtuous , beautiful , and elegant , in a very high degree ...
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... shall please others . Sir William Trumbull , who had been ambaffador at Conftantinople , and fe- cretary of state , when he retired from business , fixed his refidence in the neighbourhood of Binfield . Pope , not yet fixteen , was ...
... shall please others . Sir William Trumbull , who had been ambaffador at Conftantinople , and fe- cretary of state , when he retired from business , fixed his refidence in the neighbourhood of Binfield . Pope , not yet fixteen , was ...
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... shall be addreffed to you . I have long " concerted it , and begun it ; but I would make " what bears your name as finifhed as my laft work " ought to be , that is to fay , more finished than any " of the reft . The fubject is large ...
... shall be addreffed to you . I have long " concerted it , and begun it ; but I would make " what bears your name as finifhed as my laft work " ought to be , that is to fay , more finished than any " of the reft . The fubject is large ...
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... shall guide inquiring eyes . Peace to thy gentle fhade , and endless rest ! Bleft in thy genius , in thy love too bleft ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thanklefs land to his denies . Of this infcription the chief ...
... shall guide inquiring eyes . Peace to thy gentle fhade , and endless rest ! Bleft in thy genius , in thy love too bleft ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thanklefs land to his denies . Of this infcription the chief ...
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... shall say , Striking their penfive bofoms - Here lies GAY ! As Gay was the favourite of our author , this epitaph . was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more fuccessfully executed than the reft , for ...
... shall say , Striking their penfive bofoms - Here lies GAY ! As Gay was the favourite of our author , this epitaph . was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more fuccessfully executed than the reft , for ...
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Addiſon addreffed affiftance afterwards againſt almoft anfwer appears becauſe Bolingbroke cenfure character compofition confidered converfation criticiſm criticks curiofity defign defire diction difcovered diſcover Dryden Dunciad eafily Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftate ftill ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed furely himſelf honour houſe Iliad intereft kindneſs laft laſt lefs Letter lived loft Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lyttelton mafter mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never Night Thoughts numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon perfuaded perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reafon ſeems ſuch ſuppoſed Swift thefe theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe tion told tranflation univerfal uſed verfe verfion verſes vifit whofe write written Young
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Page 321 - words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion than even in the author; that the Chriftian was in him a character ftill more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime, than the poet; and that, in his ordinary converfation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky.
Page 84 - the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure fhed, And tip with filver every mountain's head ; Then ihine the vales, the rocks in profpeft rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the
Page 188 - that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwife than by afking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition which
Page 160 - circumference of fcience. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehenfive fpeculation ; and thofe of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the
Page 84 - The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflection of the diftant fires . Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand piles the dufky horrors gild, And
Page 227 - of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of
Page 103 - almoft all the letters of the alphabet (the '' greateft part of them at random :) but fuch was " the number of poets eminent in that art, that " fome one or other took every letter to himfelf: *' all fell into fo violent a fury, that, for half a year " or more, the common newfpapers (in moft of "which
Page 274 - charmer to vie j How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural ftrain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I
Page 79 - from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead ; The King of men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the King's offence the people dy'd. Declare, O Goddefs, what offended Power Enflam'd their rage, in that ill-omen d hour ; anger fatal,
Page 120 - ought never to have another anfwer, " and deferved not fo good an one. I can only fay, " you do him too much honour, and me too much " right, fo odd as the expreffion feems; for you '' have made my fyftem as clear as I ought to have '' done, and could not. It is indeed the fame