The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 |
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... reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics , who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is ...
... reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics , who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is ...
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... reputation and popu- larity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor enemies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character ...
... reputation and popu- larity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor enemies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character ...
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... reputation ; but was persuaded to leave it , 1710 , by Mr. St. John , with promises of a more honourable employment . His opinions , as he was a nonjuror , seem not to have been re- markably rigid . He wrote with great zeal and ...
... reputation ; but was persuaded to leave it , 1710 , by Mr. St. John , with promises of a more honourable employment . His opinions , as he was a nonjuror , seem not to have been re- markably rigid . He wrote with great zeal and ...
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... reputation . Pope was pleased with the honour ; and , when he became acquainted with Gay , found such attractions in his manners and conversa- tion , that he seems to have received him into his inmost confi- dence ; and a friendship was ...
... reputation . Pope was pleased with the honour ; and , when he became acquainted with Gay , found such attractions in his manners and conversa- tion , that he seems to have received him into his inmost confi- dence ; and a friendship was ...
Side 72
... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The public sometimes has its favourites whom it rewards for one species of excellence with the honours due tỏ another . From ...
... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The public sometimes has its favourites whom it rewards for one species of excellence with the honours due tỏ another . From ...
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Side 217 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Side 216 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Side 295 - ... the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.
Side 441 - ... cultivated ; that he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all, but that he was fastidious and hard to please.
Side 440 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics...
Side 179 - Tale of a Tub" has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by itself ; what is true of that, is not true of any thing else which he has written.
Side 277 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Side 275 - He considered poetry as the business of his life, and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy: to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last.
Side 366 - This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur of wildness, and the novelty of extravagance, were always desired by him, but were not always attained.
Side 350 - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his , Dissertation on St. Paul.