Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... play meets with ; but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about town was remarkable on this occasion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison espoused his interest ' , with all the elegant judgement and ...
... play meets with ; but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about town was remarkable on this occasion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison espoused his interest ' , with all the elegant judgement and ...
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... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night 3. Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night 3. Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
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... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells , in one ...
... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells , in one ...
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... play a prologue from Addison and an epilogue from Prior3 , and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials I am indebted to my conversation with ...
... play a prologue from Addison and an epilogue from Prior3 , and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials I am indebted to my conversation with ...
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... play . ' Lord Keeper North , who died in 1685 , refused to join the Society , because ' he esteemed it a species of vanity for one , as he was , of a grave profession to list himself of a Society which , at that time , was made very ...
... play . ' Lord Keeper North , who died in 1685 , refused to join the Society , because ' he esteemed it a species of vanity for one , as he was , of a grave profession to list himself of a Society which , at that time , was made very ...
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Page 150 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 276 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.
Page 34 - ... a true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king...
Page 146 - Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 149 - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 230 - Whistling through hollows of this vaulted aisle. We'll listen— Leon. Hark! Aim No, all is hush'd, and still as death — 'tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Page 434 - Savage did not exempt him; or if those who in confidence of superior capacities or attainments disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page 117 - Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life, and perhaps of loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very diligently endeavoured to reclaim him ; but his arguments and expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to be tried: when he found his life near its end, he directed the young Lord to be called; and when he desired, with great tenderness, to hear his last injunctions, told him, I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
Page 253 - The incessant attacks of his enemies, whether serious or merry, are never discovered to have disturbed his quiet, or to have lessened his confidence in himself.
Page 249 - Blackmore led him to gratify, and he produced (1721) a new Version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...