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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... Dunciad . In this difaftrous year ( 1720 ) of national infatuation , when more riches than Peru can boaft were expected from the South Sea , when the contagion of avarice tainted every mind , and even poets panted after wealth , Pope ...
... Dunciad . In this difaftrous year ( 1720 ) of national infatuation , when more riches than Peru can boaft were expected from the South Sea , when the contagion of avarice tainted every mind , and even poets panted after wealth , Pope ...
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... Dunciad . In the following year ( 1728 ) he began to put At- terbury's advice in practice ; and fhewed his fatirical powers by publishing the Dunciad , one of his greatest and most elaborate performances , in which he endea- voured to ...
... Dunciad . In the following year ( 1728 ) he began to put At- terbury's advice in practice ; and fhewed his fatirical powers by publishing the Dunciad , one of his greatest and most elaborate performances , in which he endea- voured to ...
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... Dunciad is very minutely re- lated by Pope himself , in a Dedication which he wrote to Lord Middlefex in the name of Savage . " I will relate the war of the Dunces ( for so it has " been commonly called ) , which began in the year 1727 ...
... Dunciad is very minutely re- lated by Pope himself , in a Dedication which he wrote to Lord Middlefex in the name of Savage . " I will relate the war of the Dunces ( for so it has " been commonly called ) , which began in the year 1727 ...
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... Dunciad ; and he ❝thought it an happiness , that , by the late flood of " flander on himself , he had acquired fuch a pecu- " liar right over their names as was neceffary to this " defign , 66 " On the 12th of March , 1729 , at St ...
... Dunciad ; and he ❝thought it an happiness , that , by the late flood of " flander on himself , he had acquired fuch a pecu- " liar right over their names as was neceffary to this " defign , 66 " On the 12th of March , 1729 , at St ...
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... Dunciad . " Pope appears by this narrative to have contemplated his victory over the Dunces with great exultation ; and fuch was his delight in the tumult which he had raised , that for a while his natural fenfibibity was fufpended ...
... Dunciad . " Pope appears by this narrative to have contemplated his victory over the Dunces with great exultation ; and fuch was his delight in the tumult which he had raised , that for a while his natural fenfibibity was fufpended ...
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Página 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.
Página 109 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.