The Lives of the English Poets, כרך 2J.F. Dove, and sold by all the booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1826 - 420 עמודים |
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עמוד 9
... French court ; and , returning in about a month , brought with him the Abbe Gualtier , and Mr. Mesnager , a minister from France , invested with full powers This transaction not being avowed , Mackay , the master PRIOR .
... French court ; and , returning in about a month , brought with him the Abbe Gualtier , and Mr. Mesnager , a minister from France , invested with full powers This transaction not being avowed , Mackay , the master PRIOR .
עמוד 10
... returned to power , was ag- gravated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the Com- mittee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
... returned to power , was ag- gravated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the Com- mittee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
עמוד 11
... returned next year to England , and then he assumed the style and dignity of ambassador . But , while he continued in appearance a private man , he was treated with confidence by Lewis , who sent him with a letter to the Queen , written ...
... returned next year to England , and then he assumed the style and dignity of ambassador . But , while he continued in appearance a private man , he was treated with confidence by Lewis , who sent him with a letter to the Queen , written ...
עמוד 30
... returned to power , and he was accordingly made secretary for the island of Jamaica ; a place , I suppose , without trust or care , but which , with his post in the Customs , is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year ...
... returned to power , and he was accordingly made secretary for the island of Jamaica ; a place , I suppose , without trust or care , but which , with his post in the Customs , is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year ...
עמוד 35
... returned home . In some part of his life , it is not known when , his indi- gence compelled him to teach a school , an humiliation with which , though it certainly lasted but a little while , his enemies did not forget to reproach him ...
... returned home . In some part of his life , it is not known when , his indi- gence compelled him to teach a school , an humiliation with which , though it certainly lasted but a little while , his enemies did not forget to reproach him ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterward appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured epitaph Essay excellence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius happy honour Iliad imagination kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young
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עמוד 274 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. 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.
עמוד 274 - 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.
עמוד 404 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
עמוד 275 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
עמוד 275 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
עמוד 404 - 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.
עמוד 289 - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...
עמוד 216 - Iliad. It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning.
עמוד 166 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
עמוד 409 - you shall be my confessor ; when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.