The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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... present times , nor too diftant from " them . " All for Love , or the World well loft , a tra- gedy founded upon the story of Antony and Cleopatra , he tells us , is the only play which be wrote for himself ; the reft were given to the ...
... present times , nor too diftant from " them . " All for Love , or the World well loft , a tra- gedy founded upon the story of Antony and Cleopatra , he tells us , is the only play which be wrote for himself ; the reft were given to the ...
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... present time , I believe , that thofe who had fub- scribed to the funeral of a man like Dryden , would not , for fuch an accident , have with- drawn their contributions . He He was buried among the poets in West- minster Abbey 80 DRYDEN .
... present time , I believe , that thofe who had fub- scribed to the funeral of a man like Dryden , would not , for fuch an accident , have with- drawn their contributions . He He was buried among the poets in West- minster Abbey 80 DRYDEN .
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... present not un- fuitable to the magnificence of that fplendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical fociety for the use of Alexander's Feaft . of In those days the economy of government was ...
... present not un- fuitable to the magnificence of that fplendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical fociety for the use of Alexander's Feaft . of In those days the economy of government was ...
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... present age , though in his own time , at least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . He put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial aftrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is ...
... present age , though in his own time , at least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . He put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial aftrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is ...
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... present age of English literature , turns back to peruse this dialogue , will not per- haps find much increase of knowledge , or much novelty of inftruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles were then in the hands of a ...
... present age of English literature , turns back to peruse this dialogue , will not per- haps find much increase of knowledge , or much novelty of inftruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles were then in the hands of a ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 110 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious. They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place.
Página 355 - He not only made the proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles.
Página 176 - There is, surely, reason to suspect that he pleased himself, as well as his audience; and that these, like the harlots of other men, had his love, though not his approbation. He had, sometimes, faults of a less generous and splendid kind.
Página 391 - All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Página 229 - At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful and instructive hours, with companions such as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered, and with David Garrick...
Página 152 - Proffering the Hind to wait her half the way: That, since the sky was clear, an hour of talk Might help her to beguile the tedious walk. With much good-will the motion was embrac'd...
Página 229 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Página 100 - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes.
Página 261 - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Página 110 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.