The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen 2C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, and J. Bowen., 1783 |
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... Such a fortune ought to have fe- cured him from that poverty which seems always to have oppreffed him ; or if he had wafted it , to have made him ashamed of pub- lifhing his neceffities . But though he had many enemies , who undoubtedly ...
... Such a fortune ought to have fe- cured him from that poverty which seems always to have oppreffed him ; or if he had wafted it , to have made him ashamed of pub- lifhing his neceffities . But though he had many enemies , who undoubtedly ...
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... such criticism as malig- nant impatience could pour out in haste . Of Settle he gives this character . " He's an animal of a most deplored understand- " ing , without converfation . His being is " in a twilight of sense , and some ...
... such criticism as malig- nant impatience could pour out in haste . Of Settle he gives this character . " He's an animal of a most deplored understand- " ing , without converfation . His being is " in a twilight of sense , and some ...
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... Such was the criticism to which the ge- nius of Dryden could be reduced , between rage and terrour ; rage with little provoca- tion , and terrour with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus levelled with the meanest , may produce ...
... Such was the criticism to which the ge- nius of Dryden could be reduced , between rage and terrour ; rage with little provoca- tion , and terrour with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus levelled with the meanest , may produce ...
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... such veneration of his critical pow- ers as might naturally excite great expecta- tions of inftruction from his remarks . let honest credulity beware of receiving cha- racters from contemporary writers . Clif- ford's remarks , by the ...
... such veneration of his critical pow- ers as might naturally excite great expecta- tions of inftruction from his remarks . let honest credulity beware of receiving cha- racters from contemporary writers . Clif- ford's remarks , by the ...
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... such pedantry as this : 66 " Two ifs scarce make one poffibility . " If justice will take all and nothing give , cc Juftice , methinks , is not diftributive . " To die or kill you , is the alternative , " Rather than take your life , I ...
... such pedantry as this : 66 " Two ifs scarce make one poffibility . " If justice will take all and nothing give , cc Juftice , methinks , is not diftributive . " To die or kill you , is the alternative , " Rather than take your life , I ...
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Página 428 - I never heard of the man in my life, yet I find your name as a subscriber. He is too grave a poet for me; and I think among the Mediocrists, in prose as well as verse.
Página 169 - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again ; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.
Página 420 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Página 364 - Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared with that contempt of national right with which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of Whiggism, the Commons, chosen by the people for three years, chose themselves for seven.
Página 348 - This, says Pope *, had been tried for the first time in favour of the Distrest Mother; and was now, with more efficacy, practised for Cato. The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
Página 148 - FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 188 - Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion, of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments.
Página 112 - Of him that knows much, it is natural to suppose that he has read with diligence; yet I rather believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation, by a quick apprehension, a judicious selection, and a happy memory, a keen appetite of knowledge, and a powerful digestion...
Página 114 - 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.
Página 208 - Whether our English audience have been pleased hitherto with, acorns, as he calls it, or with bread, is the next question ; that is, whether the means which Shakspeare and Fletcher have used in their plays to raise those passions before named, be better applied to the ends by the Greek poets than by them.