Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 pages |
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Page ix
... poet , offended by Pope's free criticism ; Mr. Cromwell , received many letters from Pope ; Walsh , advised Pope to practise correctness . At seventeen he began to frequent Will's coffee - house , and to read diligently for improvement ...
... poet , offended by Pope's free criticism ; Mr. Cromwell , received many letters from Pope ; Walsh , advised Pope to practise correctness . At seventeen he began to frequent Will's coffee - house , and to read diligently for improvement ...
Page xii
... Poet Laureate , who had ridiculed Pope's drama , Three Hours after Marriage , laughed off the stage in 1717. Pope and Cibber attacked each other in successive pamphlets , the former losing more credit than the latter . xi . Death and ...
... Poet Laureate , who had ridiculed Pope's drama , Three Hours after Marriage , laughed off the stage in 1717. Pope and Cibber attacked each other in successive pamphlets , the former losing more credit than the latter . xi . Death and ...
Page xvi
... poet's own Character . 7. Pope's genius . - Pope possessed in due proportion the qualities which constitute genius : ( a ) inventive faculty ( Rape of the Lock , Essay on Criticism ) ; ( b ) imagination ( Eloisa , Windsor Forest ...
... poet's own Character . 7. Pope's genius . - Pope possessed in due proportion the qualities which constitute genius : ( a ) inventive faculty ( Rape of the Lock , Essay on Criticism ) ; ( b ) imagination ( Eloisa , Windsor Forest ...
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... poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his ... poets , he soon distinguished the versification of Dryden , which he considered as the model to be studied , and was 30 ...
... poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his ... poets , he soon distinguished the versification of Dryden , which he considered as the model to be studied , and was 30 ...
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... poets , and professed to have written at fourteer , his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his versification , and in the smoothness of his numbers sur- passed his original : but this is a small part of ...
... poets , and professed to have written at fourteer , his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his versification , and in the smoothness of his numbers sur- passed his original : but this is a small part of ...
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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.