The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 3Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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... addreffed to Dr. Swift of the notes , part were written by Dr. Arbuthnot ; and an apologetical Letter was prefixed , figned by Cleland , but fup- . pofed to have been written by Pope . After this general war upon Dulness , he seems to ...
... addreffed to Dr. Swift of the notes , part were written by Dr. Arbuthnot ; and an apologetical Letter was prefixed , figned by Cleland , but fup- . pofed to have been written by Pope . After this general war upon Dulness , he seems to ...
Page 59
... addreffed , was privately faid to mean the Duke of Chandos ; a man perhaps too much delighted with pomp and fhow , but of a temper kind and beneficent , and who had confequently the voice of the publick in his favour . A violent outcry ...
... addreffed , was privately faid to mean the Duke of Chandos ; a man perhaps too much delighted with pomp and fhow , but of a temper kind and beneficent , and who had confequently the voice of the publick in his favour . A violent outcry ...
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... addreffed to Martha Blount , but which the last edition has taken from her , the " Characters of Women . " This poem , which was laboured with great dili- gence , and in the author's opinion with great fuccefs , was neglected at its ...
... addreffed to Martha Blount , but which the last edition has taken from her , the " Characters of Women . " This poem , which was laboured with great dili- gence , and in the author's opinion with great fuccefs , was neglected at its ...
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... addreffed to you . I have " long concerted it , and begun it ; but I would : " make what bears your name as finished as my " laft work ought to be , that is to fay , more " finished than any of the reft . The fubject is " large , and ...
... addreffed to you . I have " long concerted it , and begun it ; but I would : " make what bears your name as finished as my " laft work ought to be , that is to fay , more " finished than any of the reft . The fubject is " large , and ...
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... addreffed to a fingle mind , of which the prejudices and parti- alities are known ; and muft therefore please , if not by favouring them , by forbearing to oppose them . Το To charge thofe favourable reprefentations , which men give of ...
... addreffed to a fingle mind , of which the prejudices and parti- alities are known ; and muft therefore please , if not by favouring them , by forbearing to oppose them . Το To charge thofe favourable reprefentations , which men give of ...
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Aaron Hill Addifon addreffed affiftance afterwards againſt appears becauſe cenfure character compofition confequence confiderable confidered converfation criticifm criticks curiofity deferved defign defire difcovered Dryden Dunciad eafily Edward Young Effay elegance Epiftle epitaph expreffed fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhort fhould firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftanza ftate ftill ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fupplied fuppofed furely genius himſelf honour houfe Iliad kindneſs labour Lady laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters lived Lord Lyttelton Mallet mind moſt muft muſt neceffary never Night Thoughts numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffion Paftorals perfon perfuaded perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praife praiſe prefent printed profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſed reader reafon ſeems thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thouſand tion tranflation uſed verfes verfion verſes whofe write written Young
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Page 113 - 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. 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 levelled by the roller.
Page 113 - 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 78 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 312 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Page 178 - They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their " race ;" a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil.
Page 176 - ... but, said Savage, he knows not any love but that of the sex; he was perhaps never in cold water in his life; and he indulges himself in all the luxury that comes within his reach.
Page 102 - Yet a little regard shown him by the Prince of Wales melted his obduracy, and he had not much to say when he was asked by his Royal Highness 'how he could love a Prince while he disliked Kings'.
Page 305 - ... always to mean more than he said. Would you have any more reasons? An interval of above forty years has pretty well destroyed the charm.
Page 185 - Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
Page 112 - 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.