Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsDerby & Jackson, 1861 - English poetry |
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... Father's Death - His Godmother's Death - His Early Misfortunes - Lady Mason's kindness - Is placed with a Shoemaker - Becomes an Author by Profession - Sir Richard Steele interests himself in his behalf - His Two Comedies - Mrs ...
... Father's Death - His Godmother's Death - His Early Misfortunes - Lady Mason's kindness - Is placed with a Shoemaker - Becomes an Author by Profession - Sir Richard Steele interests himself in his behalf - His Two Comedies - Mrs ...
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... Father's Baronetcy - Is created a Peer -Writes ' The History of the Reign of Henry II .'- Death , and Burial at Hagley . 589 THOMAS GRAY . - 1716-1771 . Born in Cornhill , London - Educated at Eton and Cambridge - Accompanies Horace ...
... Father's Baronetcy - Is created a Peer -Writes ' The History of the Reign of Henry II .'- Death , and Burial at Hagley . 589 THOMAS GRAY . - 1716-1771 . Born in Cornhill , London - Educated at Eton and Cambridge - Accompanies Horace ...
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... father , and to the will of Waller's father , from both of which minuti∞ of importance have been drawn for the illustration of their lives . The date of Waller's marriage , and the period when Butler ceased to be steward at Ludlow ...
... father , and to the will of Waller's father , from both of which minuti∞ of importance have been drawn for the illustration of their lives . The date of Waller's marriage , and the period when Butler ceased to be steward at Ludlow ...
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... father having some military employ- ment that stationed him in Ireland : but after having passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to ...
... father having some military employ- ment that stationed him in Ireland : but after having passed through the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to ...
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... father was acquainted with all of them . Addison was the best company in the world . I never knew anybody that had so much wit as Congreve -LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU : Spence by Singer , p . 232 . 16 Voltaire has been charmingly absurd ...
... father was acquainted with all of them . Addison was the best company in the world . I never knew anybody that had so much wit as Congreve -LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU : Spence by Singer , p . 232 . 16 Voltaire has been charmingly absurd ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared beauty blank verse Bolingbroke Broome called censure character Cibber Congreve copy Court criticism Croker death dedication died Dodsley Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl edition elegance endeavoured Epistle epitaph Essay excellence father favour Fenton friendship genius honour Iliad imagination imitation Johnson Joseph Warton kind King labour Lady letter lived London Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet mind Miscellany mother nature never Night Thoughts observed occasion Orrery Oxford perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise Prince printed published Queen reader reason received Richard Blackmore Richard Savage satire Savage says seems Spence by Singer supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told translation Tyrconnel verses virtue Walpole Warton Westminster Abbey William Broome write written wrote Young
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Page 324 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 331 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
Page 506 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Page 344 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 284 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself ; but you express me better than I could express myself.
Page 152 - Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw ; Uncag'd then let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Page 70 - Quin, that during the first night of its appearance it was long in a very dubious state ; that there was a disposition to damn it, and that it was saved by the song, " Oh ponder well ! be not severe...
Page 323 - 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.
Page 609 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements ; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
Page 291 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active .imagination ; a scholar with great brilliance of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and disco•vered a noble ardour of religious zeal.