Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 pages |
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... never merry . Eminently frugal , niggardly to his guests , but fond of ridiculing poverty . Proud of his acquaintance with men of rank , but not servile ; never flattered for gain . His letters show liberality , gratitude , constancy ...
... never merry . Eminently frugal , niggardly to his guests , but fond of ridiculing poverty . Proud of his acquaintance with men of rank , but not servile ; never flattered for gain . His letters show liberality , gratitude , constancy ...
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... never negligent , never impatient . His work was voluntary , his subjects chosen by himself . His publications were never hasty . 5. Dryden and Pope compared . - Dryden wrote to please the people , with little consideration , when ...
... never negligent , never impatient . His work was voluntary , his subjects chosen by himself . His publications were never hasty . 5. Dryden and Pope compared . - Dryden wrote to please the people , with little consideration , when ...
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... never ascertained : we are informed that they were of gentle blood ; that his father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head ; and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Esquire , of York , who had likewise ...
... never ascertained : we are informed that they were of gentle blood ; that his father was of a family of which the Earl of Downe was the head ; and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Esquire , of York , who had likewise ...
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... never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of ...
... never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of ...
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... never so con- temptible , his inward man is ten times more ridiculous ; it being impossible that his outward form , though it be that of downright monkey , should differ so much from human shape 20 as his unthinking immaterial part does ...
... never so con- temptible , his inward man is ten times more ridiculous ; it being impossible that his outward form , though it be that of downright monkey , should differ so much from human shape 20 as his unthinking immaterial part does ...
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Page 90 - 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 29 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 184 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 162 - There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth.
Page 89 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Page 173 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.
Page 117 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 184 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Page 181 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 147 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.