Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 - English poetry |
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... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults ; negligences or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedious- ness ...
... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults ; negligences or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedious- ness ...
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... attention to statutes or re- ports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
... attention to statutes or re- ports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
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... attention , and the wit so exuberant , that it " o'er informs its tenement . " Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer , which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron the lord ...
... attention , and the wit so exuberant , that it " o'er informs its tenement . " Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer , which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron the lord ...
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... attention ; but , except a very few passages , we are rather amused with noise , and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of natural characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence than ...
... attention ; but , except a very few passages , we are rather amused with noise , and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of natural characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence than ...
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... attention to the business of the place ; for , in his poems , the ancient names of nations or places , which he often introduces , are pronounced by chance . He afterward travelled ; at Padua he was made doctor of physic ; and , after ...
... attention to the business of the place ; for , in his poems , the ancient names of nations or places , which he often introduces , are pronounced by chance . He afterward travelled ; at Padua he was made doctor of physic ; and , after ...
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Page 289 - 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 312 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Page 439 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 314 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Page 122 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
Page 29 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 279 - Age," and are now the friendships only of children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they do not shun a distinct and continued view ; and certainly, what we hide from h 3 ourselves we do not shew to our friends.
Page 259 - ... 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.
Page 289 - 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 203 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.