Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 - English poetry |
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... published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard men- tion made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he seemed to doubt ...
... published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard men- tion made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with political knowledge . When he seemed to doubt ...
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... published 1704 , in the same volume as the Tale of the Tub . S. S. vol . x . p . 217 . This jeu d'esprit relates to two keen and memorable controversies , which at that time divided the literary world . The first was the grand ...
... published 1704 , in the same volume as the Tale of the Tub . S. S. vol . x . p . 217 . This jeu d'esprit relates to two keen and memorable controversies , which at that time divided the literary world . The first was the grand ...
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... published under the name of Bickerstaff , induced Steele , when he projected the " Tatler , " to assume an appellation which had already gained possession of the reader's notice . 1 In the year following he wrote a " Project for the Ad ...
... published under the name of Bickerstaff , induced Steele , when he projected the " Tatler , " to assume an appellation which had already gained possession of the reader's notice . 1 In the year following he wrote a " Project for the Ad ...
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... published a " Proposal for correcting , improving , and ascertaining the English Tongue , " in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the ...
... published a " Proposal for correcting , improving , and ascertaining the English Tongue , " in a Letter to the Earl of Oxford ; written without much knowledge of the general nature of language , and without any accurate enquiry into the ...
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... published his " Reflections on the Barrier Treaty , which carries ' on the design of his " Con- duct of the Allies , " and shews how little regard in that negotiation had been shewn to the interest of England , and how much of the ...
... published his " Reflections on the Barrier Treaty , which carries ' on the design of his " Con- duct of the Allies , " and shews how little regard in that negotiation had been shewn to the interest of England , and how much of the ...
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Page 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
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Page 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
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Page 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
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