Johnson's Life of Pope [ed.] by P. PetersonLondon, 1899 - 200 pages |
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... seem premeditated and artificial , hence too favourable to himself . He professed ( a ) contempt for his own . poetry , but this was not sincere ; ( b ) insensibility to criticism , but every pamphlet disturbed his quiet ; ( c ) ...
... seem premeditated and artificial , hence too favourable to himself . He professed ( a ) contempt for his own . poetry , but this was not sincere ; ( b ) insensibility to criticism , but every pamphlet disturbed his quiet ; ( c ) ...
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... seems to have wanted neither diligence nor success in attracting the notice of the great ; for , from his first entrance into the world , and his entrance was very early , he was admitted to famili- arity with those whose rank or ...
... seems to have wanted neither diligence nor success in attracting the notice of the great ; for , from his first entrance into the world , and his entrance was very early , he was admitted to famili- arity with those whose rank or ...
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... seems to have had among his contemporaries his full share of reputation , to have been esteemed without virtue , and caressed without good - humour . Pope was proud of his notice ; Wycherley wrote verses in his praise , which he was ...
... seems to have had among his contemporaries his full share of reputation , to have been esteemed without virtue , and caressed without good - humour . Pope was proud of his notice ; Wycherley wrote verses in his praise , which he was ...
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... seems to have regulated his studies . Walsh advised him to correctness , which , as he told him , the English poets had hitherto neglected , and which therefore was left to him as a basis of fame ; and , being delighted with rural poems ...
... seems to have regulated his studies . Walsh advised him to correctness , which , as he told him , the English poets had hitherto neglected , and which therefore was left to him as a basis of fame ; and , being delighted with rural poems ...
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... seems to have 30 known something of Pope's character , in whom may be discovered an appetite to talk too frequently of his own virtues . The pamphlet is such as rage might be expected to dictate . He supposes himself to be asked two ...
... seems to have 30 known something of Pope's character , in whom may be discovered an appetite to talk too frequently of his own virtues . The pamphlet is such as rage might be expected to dictate . He supposes himself to be asked two ...
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Page 185 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
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 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 166 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness...
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 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 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 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.
Page 89 - 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.