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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... gives reafon for expecting . He wrote likewife this year " A Vindication of " Bickerstaff ; " and an explanation of " An Ancient Prophecy , " part written after the facts , and the reft never completed , but well planned to excite 65 ...
... gives reafon for expecting . He wrote likewife this year " A Vindication of " Bickerstaff ; " and an explanation of " An Ancient Prophecy , " part written after the facts , and the reft never completed , but well planned to excite 65 ...
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... give away a place , " said Lewis XIV . " I make an hundred difcontented , and " one ungrateful . " Much has been faid of the equality and indepen- dence which he preferved in his converfation with the Minifters , of the franknefs of his ...
... give away a place , " said Lewis XIV . " I make an hundred difcontented , and " one ungrateful . " Much has been faid of the equality and indepen- dence which he preferved in his converfation with the Minifters , of the franknefs of his ...
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... give him . That Miniftry was in a great degree fup- ported by the Clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of the " Tale of a Tub , " and would not without much discontent and indignation have borne to see him inftalled in an ...
... give him . That Miniftry was in a great degree fup- ported by the Clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of the " Tale of a Tub , " and would not without much discontent and indignation have borne to see him inftalled in an ...
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... give an account of another's ftudies ? Swift was not likely to admit any to his privacies , or to impart a minute account of his bufinefs or his leifure . Soon after ( 1716 ) , in his forty - ninth year , he was privately married to Mrs ...
... give an account of another's ftudies ? Swift was not likely to admit any to his privacies , or to impart a minute account of his bufinefs or his leifure . Soon after ( 1716 ) , in his forty - ninth year , he was privately married to Mrs ...
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... give place to obloquy , And Stella retired ( upon the carneft invitation of the owner ) to the " house of a cheerful , generous , good - natured friend . " of the Dean's , whom he always much loved and " honoured . There my informer ...
... give place to obloquy , And Stella retired ( upon the carneft invitation of the owner ) to the " house of a cheerful , generous , good - natured friend . " of the Dean's , whom he always much loved and " honoured . There my informer ...
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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