Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... wrote to Bolingbroke of fame : ' With age we learn to know the house is so full that there is no room for above one ... wrote Temple , ' by the desertion of the Col- lege of Dublin upon the calamities of the country . ' Cunningham's ...
... wrote to Bolingbroke of fame : ' With age we learn to know the house is so full that there is no room for above one ... wrote Temple , ' by the desertion of the Col- lege of Dublin upon the calamities of the country . ' Cunningham's ...
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... wrote to Pope , who was forty - five : - ' At your time of life I could have leaped over the moon . ' Works , xviii . 124. At Letcombe , where he resided in 1714 ( post , SWIFT , 61 ) , ' there is a hill , ' wrote Bowles in 1806 , which ...
... wrote to Pope , who was forty - five : - ' At your time of life I could have leaped over the moon . ' Works , xviii . 124. At Letcombe , where he resided in 1714 ( post , SWIFT , 61 ) , ' there is a hill , ' wrote Bowles in 1806 , which ...
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... wrote to his uncle , William Swift : - ' I never was more satisfied than in the behaviour of the University of Oxford to me . ' Works , xv . 244 . I Swift wrote from London in 1711 : The young fellows here have begun a kind of fashion ...
... wrote to his uncle , William Swift : - ' I never was more satisfied than in the behaviour of the University of Oxford to me . ' Works , xv . 244 . I Swift wrote from London in 1711 : The young fellows here have begun a kind of fashion ...
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... wrote The Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books " . Swift began early to think , or to hope , that he was a poet , 18 and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple ' , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who ...
... wrote The Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books " . Swift began early to think , or to hope , that he was a poet , 18 and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple ' , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who ...
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... wrote of him in 1718 : - ' He is to me the most candid and agreeable of all bishops . ' Swift's Works , xvi . 303 . Johnson praised his elegant style . Boswell's Johnson , iii . 248 . 3 Miss Byron in Sir Charles Grandison had read it ...
... wrote of him in 1718 : - ' He is to me the most candid and agreeable of all bishops . ' Swift's Works , xvi . 303 . Johnson praised his elegant style . Boswell's Johnson , iii . 248 . 3 Miss Byron in Sir Charles Grandison had read it ...
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Page 299 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute.
Page 260 - 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 168 - ... 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. I am sure I like it better than I did before, and so will every man else. I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not explain my own meaning so well as you. You understand me as well as I do myself; .but you express me better than I could express myself.
Page 222 - Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Page 70 - But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet. Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends ; Or, to compound the business, whether They temper love and books together ; Must never to mankind be told, Nor shall the conscious Muse unfold.
Page 429 - He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Page 376 - Seapiece," in two odes. Young enjoys the credit of what is called an " Extempore Epigram on Voltaire ;" who, when he was in England, ridiculed, in the company of the jealous English poet, Milton's allegory of " Sin and Death" You are so witty, profligate, and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin.
Page 222 - Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller.
Page 442 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Page 221 - For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication were the two satires of 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...