Prefaces,Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets1781 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 14
עמוד 5
... Such was the beginning of the life of Richard Savage . Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence , he was in two months illegitimated by the parliament , and difowned by his mother , doomed to poverty and obfcurity , and ...
... Such was the beginning of the life of Richard Savage . Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence , he was in two months illegitimated by the parliament , and difowned by his mother , doomed to poverty and obfcurity , and ...
עמוד 16
... such weakness is very common , and that there are few who do not fometimes , in the wantonnefs of thoughtless mirth , or the heat of tranfient refentment , speak of their friends and benefac- stors with levity and contempt , though in ...
... such weakness is very common , and that there are few who do not fometimes , in the wantonnefs of thoughtless mirth , or the heat of tranfient refentment , speak of their friends and benefac- stors with levity and contempt , though in ...
עמוד 75
... such as made his falts pardonable . He may be con- fidered as a child expofed to all the temptations of indigence , at an age when refolution was not yet ftrengthened by conviction , nor virtue con- firmed by habit ; a circumftance ...
... such as made his falts pardonable . He may be con- fidered as a child expofed to all the temptations of indigence , at an age when refolution was not yet ftrengthened by conviction , nor virtue con- firmed by habit ; a circumftance ...
עמוד 78
... Such was the performance , and fuch its re- ception ; a reception which , though by no means unkind , was yet not in the highest degree generous to chain down the genius of a writer to an annual panegyric , fhewed in the Queen too much ...
... Such was the performance , and fuch its re- ception ; a reception which , though by no means unkind , was yet not in the highest degree generous to chain down the genius of a writer to an annual panegyric , fhewed in the Queen too much ...
עמוד 88
... such a manner as fhould expofe them either to ridi- cule or deteftation . But this plan was , like others , formed and laid afide , till the vigour of his imagination was spent , and the effervefcence of invention had fubfided ; but ...
... such a manner as fhould expofe them either to ridi- cule or deteftation . But this plan was , like others , formed and laid afide , till the vigour of his imagination was spent , and the effervefcence of invention had fubfided ; but ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 8 - ... a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens.
עמוד 37 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.
עמוד 6 - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics, which he engaged to write with a large commentary, advanced as much money as enabled him to escape into the country. He showed me the guineas safe in his hand.
עמוד 77 - Bastard, he laments in a very affecting manner : — No Mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No Father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.
עמוד 38 - The great defect of the Seasons is want of method; but for this I know not that there was any remedy. Of many appearances subsisting all at once, no rule can be given why one should be mentioned before another ; yet the memory wants the help of order, and the curiosity is not excited by suspense or expectation.
עמוד 37 - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter take in their turns possession of the mind.
עמוד 34 - ... but, said Savage, he knows not any love but that of the sex; he was perhaps never in cold water in his life; and he indulges himself in all the luxury that comes within his reach.
עמוד 14 - The approaches of this dreadful malady he began to feel soon after his uncle's death ; and, with the usual weakness of men so diseased, eagerly snatched that temporary relief with which the table and the bottle flatter and seduce.
עמוד 4 - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.