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... afforded to the ear , and the mind is not oppreffed with ponderous , or en- tangled with intricate fentiment . He pleases many , and he who pleases many must have merit . " E 6 HUGHES . 184 ] HUGHES . JOF JOHN HUGHES , the son [ 83 ]
... afforded to the ear , and the mind is not oppreffed with ponderous , or en- tangled with intricate fentiment . He pleases many , and he who pleases many must have merit . " E 6 HUGHES . 184 ] HUGHES . JOF JOHN HUGHES , the son [ 83 ]
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... son of a citizen of London , and of Anne Burgefs , of an ancient family in Wiltshire , was born at Marlborough , July 29 , 1677 . He was educated at a private school and made confi- derable advances in literature . At nineteen he drew ...
... son of a citizen of London , and of Anne Burgefs , of an ancient family in Wiltshire , was born at Marlborough , July 29 , 1677 . He was educated at a private school and made confi- derable advances in literature . At nineteen he drew ...
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... Son's Preceptor . Rowe's ballad of the " Defpairing Shepherd " is faid to have been written , either before or after marriage , upon this memorable pair . The year after ( 1717 ) he rose to his highest eleva- tion , being made Secretary ...
... Son's Preceptor . Rowe's ballad of the " Defpairing Shepherd " is faid to have been written , either before or after marriage , upon this memorable pair . The year after ( 1717 ) he rose to his highest eleva- tion , being made Secretary ...
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... , familiar but not coarfe , and elegant but not oftentatious , muft give his days and nights to the volumes of Addifon . " BLACKMORE STR BLACKMORE . IR RICHARD BLACKMORE was the son of 100 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS .
... , familiar but not coarfe , and elegant but not oftentatious , muft give his days and nights to the volumes of Addifon . " BLACKMORE STR BLACKMORE . IR RICHARD BLACKMORE was the son of 100 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS .
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... son of Robert Blackmore , of Corfham in Wiltshire , fup- pofed to have been an Attorney . Having been for fome time educated in a Country School , he was fent at thirteen to Westminster ; and in 1668 was entered at Edmund - hall in ...
... son of Robert Blackmore , of Corfham in Wiltshire , fup- pofed to have been an Attorney . Having been for fome time educated in a Country School , he was fent at thirteen to Westminster ; and in 1668 was entered at Edmund - hall in ...
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Page 146 - 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.
Page 49 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
Page 31 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 239 - 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 151 - 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...
Page 49 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Page 33 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Page 238 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Page 148 - 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...
Page xii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.