The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2J.F. Dove, and sold by all the booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1826 - English poetry - 420 pages |
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... gave him a place in the Pipe - office , and an- other in the Customs of six hundred pounds a year . Con- greve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age ...
... gave him a place in the Pipe - office , and an- other in the Customs of six hundred pounds a year . Con- greve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age ...
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... gave no proof that time had im- proved his wisdom or his wit ; for , on the death of the Marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill : " The ...
... gave no proof that time had im- proved his wisdom or his wit ; for , on the death of the Marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill : " The ...
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... gave Advice to Painters . Not long after ( 1712 ) he published ' Creation , ' a philo- sophical poem , which has been by my recommendation in- serted in the late collection . Whoever judges of this by any other of Blackmore's ...
... gave Advice to Painters . Not long after ( 1712 ) he published ' Creation , ' a philo- sophical poem , which has been by my recommendation in- serted in the late collection . Whoever judges of this by any other of Blackmore's ...
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... gave himself the preference , while he seemed to disown it . Not content with this , he is supposed to have incited Gay to write The Shepherd's Week ; ' to shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life must ...
... gave himself the preference , while he seemed to disown it . Not content with this , he is supposed to have incited Gay to write The Shepherd's Week ; ' to shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life must ...
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... gave him hopes of kindness from every party ; but the Queen's death put an end to her favours , and he had dedicated his ' Shepherd's Week ' to Bolingbroke , which Swift considered as the crime that obstructed all kindness from the ...
... gave him hopes of kindness from every party ; but the Queen's death put an end to her favours , and he had dedicated his ' Shepherd's Week ' to Bolingbroke , which Swift considered as the crime that obstructed all kindness from the ...
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Page 274 - 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.
Page 274 - 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.
Page 404 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 275 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Page 275 - 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 404 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Page 289 - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...
Page 216 - Iliad. It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
Page 166 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
Page 409 - you shall be my confessor ; when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.