The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 3J. Rivington & Sons, L. Davis, B. White & Son, T. Longman, B. Law, ... [and 35 others in London], 1791 - Poets, English |
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... able rivals ; and it would be not easy to name any other compofition produced by that event which is now remembered , Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no profperous event paffed undignified by poetry . In ...
... able rivals ; and it would be not easy to name any other compofition produced by that event which is now remembered , Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no profperous event paffed undignified by poetry . In ...
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... remittances were not punctually made . On the first of Auguft , 1714 , enfued the downfall of the Tories , and the degradation of Prior . He was recalled ; but was not able Prior . 14 PRIO R. by Lewis, who sent him with a letter to ...
... remittances were not punctually made . On the first of Auguft , 1714 , enfued the downfall of the Tories , and the degradation of Prior . He was recalled ; but was not able Prior . 14 PRIO R. by Lewis, who sent him with a letter to ...
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... able to return , being detained by the debts which he he had found it neceffary to contract , and which were not discharged before March , though his old friend Montague was now at the head of the treasury . He returned then as foon as ...
... able to return , being detained by the debts which he he had found it neceffary to contract , and which were not discharged before March , though his old friend Montague was now at the head of the treasury . He returned then as foon as ...
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... more flowly through every fucceffive interval of space . Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is leaft able to discover . We VOL . III . D are are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of PRIOR . 33.
... more flowly through every fucceffive interval of space . Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is leaft able to discover . We VOL . III . D are are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of PRIOR . 33.
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... able to mark many paffages , to which he may recur for instruction or delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philofopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally confidered , his praise will be that of ...
... able to mark many paffages , to which he may recur for instruction or delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philofopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally confidered , his praise will be that of ...
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Page 220 - Thus had Savage perished by the evidence of a bawd, a strumpet, and his mother, had not justice and compassion procured him an advocate of rank too great to be rejected unheard, and of virtue too eminent to be heard without being believed.
Page 59 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 124 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Page 190 - 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 202 - 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 357 - Who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials? what other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? it is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had a hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into silence...
Page 125 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil.
Page 398 - His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions.
Page 50 - ... and. with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause. Thus qualified and thus incited, he walked out to battle, and assailed at once most of the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey.
Page 191 - Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for ; and Savage was therefore obliged to go and offer their new production to sale for two guineas, which with some difficulty he obtained. Sir Richard then returned home, having retired that day...