Prefaces,Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets1781 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 18
עמוד 12
... allowed the unhappy author no part of the profit . * Not difcouraged however at his repulfe , he wrote two years afterwards LOVE IN A VEIL , another comedy , borrowed likewise from the Spanish , but with little better fuccefs than be ...
... allowed the unhappy author no part of the profit . * Not difcouraged however at his repulfe , he wrote two years afterwards LOVE IN A VEIL , another comedy , borrowed likewise from the Spanish , but with little better fuccefs than be ...
עמוד 18
... allowed him a fettled penfion of fifty pounds a year , which was during her life regularly paid . * This I write upon the credit of the author of his life , which was published 1727 . That That this act of generofity may receive its due ...
... allowed him a fettled penfion of fifty pounds a year , which was during her life regularly paid . * This I write upon the credit of the author of his life , which was published 1727 . That That this act of generofity may receive its due ...
עמוד 22
... allowed him ; there he used to walk and form his fpeeches , and afterwards ftep into a fhop , beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink , and write down what he had compofed upon paper , which he had picked up by acci- dent . If ...
... allowed him ; there he used to walk and form his fpeeches , and afterwards ftep into a fhop , beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink , and write down what he had compofed upon paper , which he had picked up by acci- dent . If ...
עמוד 28
... allowed to have carried the prize of honour from his competitors ; but I know not whether he gained by his performance any other advantage than the increase of his reputation ; though it muft certainly have been with farther views that ...
... allowed to have carried the prize of honour from his competitors ; but I know not whether he gained by his performance any other advantage than the increase of his reputation ; though it muft certainly have been with farther views that ...
עמוד 41
... allowed to be an inftance of un- common generofity , an act of complicated vir- tue ; by which he at once relieved the poor , corrected the vicious , and forgave an enemy ; by which he at once remitted the strongest pro- vocations , and ...
... allowed to be an inftance of un- common generofity , an act of complicated vir- tue ; by which he at once relieved the poor , corrected the vicious , and forgave an enemy ; by which he at once remitted the strongest pro- vocations , and ...
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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.