The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Huches. SheffieldC. 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, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 páginas |
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... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his master's ...
... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his master's ...
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... wrote upon the play and the dedication fuch criticism as ma- lignant impatience could pour out in haste , " He's Of Settle he gives this character . " an animal of a moft deplored understand- ing , without converfation . His being is ...
... wrote upon the play and the dedication fuch criticism as ma- lignant impatience could pour out in haste , " He's Of Settle he gives this character . " an animal of a moft deplored understand- ing , without converfation . His being is ...
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... wretched felf too . " Now was Settle's time to take his revenge . He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes reprifals reprisals upon his enemy . To fay that his anfwer DRY D E N. 31.
... wretched felf too . " Now was Settle's time to take his revenge . He wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes reprifals reprisals upon his enemy . To fay that his anfwer DRY D E N. 31.
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... wrote for himself ; the rest were given to the people . It is by univerfal confent ac- counted the work in which he has admitted the fewest improprieties of ftyle or charac- ter ; but it has one fault equal to many , though rather moral ...
... wrote for himself ; the rest were given to the people . It is by univerfal confent ac- counted the work in which he has admitted the fewest improprieties of ftyle or charac- ter ; but it has one fault equal to many , though rather moral ...
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... wrote , he was ' at least once fufpected of writing more ; for in 1679 a paper of verfes , called an Essay on Satire , was fhewn about in manufcript , by which the earl of Rochefter , the dutchefs of Portsmouth , and others , were fo ...
... wrote , he was ' at least once fufpected of writing more ; for in 1679 a paper of verfes , called an Essay on Satire , was fhewn about in manufcript , by which the earl of Rochefter , the dutchefs of Portsmouth , and others , were fo ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 439 - That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk, was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and, in the female world, any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured.
Página 444 - 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.
Página 120 - 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 192 - 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 160 - As only buz to Heaven with evening wings ; Strike in the dark, offending but by chance ; Such are the blindfold blows of Ignorance : They know not beings,, and but hate a name ; To them the Hind and Panther are the same.
Página 259 - He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind; his belief of Revelation was unshaken; his learning preserved his principles; he grew first regular, and then pious.
Página 259 - 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 93 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Página 372 - 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 454 - 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.