The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, Volume 31781 |
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Page 30
... she was feen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ; then Cupid is difarmed ; then he lofes his darts to Ganymede ; then Jupiter fends him a fummons by Mercury . Then Chloe goes a - hunting , with an ivory quiver graceful at ber ...
... she was feen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ; then Cupid is difarmed ; then he lofes his darts to Ganymede ; then Jupiter fends him a fummons by Mercury . Then Chloe goes a - hunting , with an ivory quiver graceful at ber ...
Page 40
... She flying faft from heaven's hated face , And from the world that her difcover'd wide , Fled to the wafteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open fhame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd . But that fair crew ...
... She flying faft from heaven's hated face , And from the world that her difcover'd wide , Fled to the wafteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open fhame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd . But that fair crew ...
Page 81
... She dropped , as it seems , dead - born from the prefs . It is never men- tioned , and was never feen by me till I bor- rowed it for the prefent occafion . Jacob Lays , it is corrected , and revifed for another impreffion ; but the ...
... She dropped , as it seems , dead - born from the prefs . It is never men- tioned , and was never feen by me till I bor- rowed it for the prefent occafion . Jacob Lays , it is corrected , and revifed for another impreffion ; but the ...
Page 116
... she said , that he would lie a - bed , and be fed with a spoon . This , however , was not the worst that might have been prognofti- cated ; for Pope fays , in his Letters , that be died of indolence ; but his immediate distemper was the ...
... she said , that he would lie a - bed , and be fed with a spoon . This , however , was not the worst that might have been prognofti- cated ; for Pope fays , in his Letters , that be died of indolence ; but his immediate distemper was the ...
Page 117
... she had taken her place , was careful to fhew her particular attention . His collection of poems is now to be con- fidered . The ode to the Sun is written upon a common plan , without uncommon fenti- ments ; but its greatest fault is ...
... she had taken her place , was careful to fhew her particular attention . His collection of poems is now to be con- fidered . The ode to the Sun is written upon a common plan , without uncommon fenti- ments ; but its greatest fault is ...
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Page 212 - Richard, with an air of the utmost importance, to come very early to his house the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promised, found the chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to...
Page 442 - But if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drank with me.
Page 213 - Savage then imagined his task over, and expected that Sir Richard would call for the reckoning, and return home; but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for...
Page 442 - Ay, any one that did not know so well as I do might believe you. But since you are come, I must get some supper for you, I suppose.
Page 63 - He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished with -beauty and enlarged with majesty.
Page 223 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident.
Page 131 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. — When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Page 176 - I assured him that I did not at all take it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to...
Page 175 - Button's coffee-house, where I used to see him almost every day — On his meeting me there one day in particular, he took me aside, and said he should be glad to dine with me, at such a tavern, if I staid till those people were gone (Budgell and Philips).
Page 450 - They are often humorous, almost always light, and have the qualities which recommend such compositions, easiness and gaiety. They are, for the most part, what their author intended. The diction is correct, the numbers are smooth, and the rhymes exact. There seldom occurs...