The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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Pàgina 13
... thousand copies as a numerous impreffion . Dennis was not his only cenfurer ; the zealous papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erasmus too studiously praised ; but to these ob- jections he had not much regard ...
... thousand copies as a numerous impreffion . Dennis was not his only cenfurer ; the zealous papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erasmus too studiously praised ; but to these ob- jections he had not much regard ...
Pàgina 23
... thousand . It is unpleasant to relate that the bookfeller , after all his hopes and all his liberality , was , by a very unjust and illegal action , defrauded of his profit . An edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in ...
... thousand . It is unpleasant to relate that the bookfeller , after all his hopes and all his liberality , was , by a very unjust and illegal action , defrauded of his profit . An edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in ...
Pàgina 27
... thousand verfes , might have been dispatched in lefs than three hundred and twenty days by fifty verfes in a day . The notes , compiled with the affiftance of his mercenaries , could not be fuppofed to require more time than the text ...
... thousand verfes , might have been dispatched in lefs than three hundred and twenty days by fifty verfes in a day . The notes , compiled with the affiftance of his mercenaries , could not be fuppofed to require more time than the text ...
Pàgina 28
... thousand three hundred and twenty pounds - four fhillings , without deduction , as the books were fup- plied by Lintot . By the fuccefs of his fubfcription Pope was relieved from thofe pecuniary diftreffes with which , notwith- standing ...
... thousand three hundred and twenty pounds - four fhillings , without deduction , as the books were fup- plied by Lintot . By the fuccefs of his fubfcription Pope was relieved from thofe pecuniary diftreffes with which , notwith- standing ...
Pàgina 33
... thousand mouths , a thousand tongues were vain . Book V. v . I. But Pallas now Tydides ' foul infpires , Fills with her force , and warms with all her fires : Above the Greeks his deathlefs fame to raife , And crown her hero with ...
... thousand mouths , a thousand tongues were vain . Book V. v . I. But Pallas now Tydides ' foul infpires , Fills with her force , and warms with all her fires : Above the Greeks his deathlefs fame to raife , And crown her hero with ...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1787 |
The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives Samuel Johnson,John Hawkins Visualització completa - 1787 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 110 - 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.
Pàgina 109 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Pàgina 276 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.
Pàgina 308 - 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.
Pàgina 206 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Pàgina 79 - For this reason this joint production of three great writers has never obtained any notice from mankind; it has been little read, or when read has been forgotten, as no man could be wiser, better, or merrier, by remembering it. The design cannot boast of much originality; for, besides its general resemblance to Don Quixote, there will be found in it particular imitations of the History of Mr.
Pàgina 109 - 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.
Pàgina 109 - 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.
Pàgina 90 - Club," compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy, but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably in part the effect of his application. His stature was so low, that to bring him to a level with common tables, it was necessary to raise his seat. But his face was not displeasing...
Pàgina 176 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.