Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst ... [and 35 others], 1781 |
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Página 61
... lefs eager of money than Halifax of praise . It is not likely that Halifax had any personal benevolence to Pope ; it is evident that Pope looked on Halifax with fcorn and hatred . The reputation of this great work failed of gaining him ...
... lefs eager of money than Halifax of praise . It is not likely that Halifax had any personal benevolence to Pope ; it is evident that Pope looked on Halifax with fcorn and hatred . The reputation of this great work failed of gaining him ...
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... lefs interlined than the Iliad , and the latter books of the Iliad less than the former . He grew dexterous by practice , and every fheet enabled him to write the next with more facility . The books of Fenton have very few alterations ...
... lefs interlined than the Iliad , and the latter books of the Iliad less than the former . He grew dexterous by practice , and every fheet enabled him to write the next with more facility . The books of Fenton have very few alterations ...
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... lefs easily excused . Pope , in one of his Letters , complain- ing of the treatment which his poem had found , owns that fuch criticks can intimidate him , nay almoft perfuade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age ...
... lefs easily excused . Pope , in one of his Letters , complain- ing of the treatment which his poem had found , owns that fuch criticks can intimidate him , nay almoft perfuade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age ...
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... lefs flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he loft his mother , not by an unexpected death , for fhe had lafted to the age of ninety - three ; but fhe did not die unlamented ...
... lefs flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he loft his mother , not by an unexpected death , for fhe had lafted to the age of ninety - three ; but fhe did not die unlamented ...
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... others , that he was lefs attentive to dead masters ; he ftudied in the academy of Paracelfus , and made the universe his favou- rite volume . He gathered his notions fresh from $ from reality , not from the copies of authors 162 POPE .
... others , that he was lefs attentive to dead masters ; he ftudied in the academy of Paracelfus , and made the universe his favou- rite volume . He gathered his notions fresh from $ from reality , not from the copies of authors 162 POPE .
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 169 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who, before he became an author, had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 118 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 346 - The pleasure of Shenstone was all in his eye : he valued what he valued merely for its looks; nothing raised his indignation more than to ask if there were any fishes in his water* His house was mean, and he did not improve it; his care was of his grounds.
Página 222 - In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; ' *. Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 324 - 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 270 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in...
Página 483 - 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 183 - Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long; The rough road then, returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient steps, for all was fairy ground.
Página 170 - 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 122 - 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.