The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, כרך 3J. Rivington & Sons, L. Davis, B. White & Son, T. Longman, B. Law, ... [and 35 others in London], 1791 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 3
... those verses written , which , though no- thing is faid of their success , seem to have re- commended him to fome notice ; for his praise of the countess's mufick , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for ...
... those verses written , which , though no- thing is faid of their success , seem to have re- commended him to fome notice ; for his praise of the countess's mufick , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for ...
עמוד 15
... those which they received . Prior , however , feems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confeffes that he figned what , if he had ever come before a legal judi- cature , he should have contradicted or explained away ...
... those which they received . Prior , however , feems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confeffes that he figned what , if he had ever come before a legal judi- cature , he should have contradicted or explained away ...
עמוד 18
... those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscription . The expedient fuc- ceeded by the induftry of many friends , who circulated the propofals * , and the care of fome , * Swift obtained many fubfcriptions for him in ...
... those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscription . The expedient fuc- ceeded by the induftry of many friends , who circulated the propofals * , and the care of fome , * Swift obtained many fubfcriptions for him in ...
עמוד 29
... parts , fuch airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The Epiftle to Boileau is not fo happy . happy . The Poems to the King are now perufed PRIO R. 29.
... parts , fuch airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The Epiftle to Boileau is not fo happy . happy . The Poems to the King are now perufed PRIO R. 29.
עמוד 47
... those plays the honour of her prefence ; and when fhe died , foon after , Congreve teftified his gratitude by a despicable effufion of elegiac paftoral ; a compofition in which all is un- natural , and yet nothing is new . In another ...
... those plays the honour of her prefence ; and when fhe died , foon after , Congreve teftified his gratitude by a despicable effufion of elegiac paftoral ; a compofition in which all is un- natural , and yet nothing is new . In another ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
accufation Addiſon afferted affiftance afterwards againſt amuſe anſwer appeared becauſe cenfure character confequence confidered converfation death deferves defign defire diftinguiſhed diſcover eafily endeavoured faid fame fatire favour fays fecure feems feldom fent Fenton fhew fhort fince firft firſt folicited fome fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftill ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed fupport fure himſelf honour houfe houſe Iliad intereft Ireland kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs letter likewife Lord Tyrconnel ment moft moſt muſt neceffary neceffity nerally never obferved occafion Orrery paffed paffion penfion perfon perhaps pleaſed pleaſure poem poet Pope pounds praiſe preſent profe promiſe propofed publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſed reaſon received refentment refolution refuſed Savage ſcheme ſeems ſhe ſhould Sir Robert Walpole ſome ſuch Swift tenderneſs thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought Tickell tion Tyrconnel uſed utmoſt verfes verſes vifit virtue Whigs whofe whoſe write written wrote
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 220 - Thus had Savage perished by the evidence of a bawd, a strumpet, and his mother, had not justice and compassion procured him an advocate of rank too great to be rejected unheard, and of virtue too eminent to be heard without being believed.
עמוד 59 - And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
עמוד 124 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
עמוד 190 - Richard, with an air of the utmost importance, to come very early to his house the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promised, found the chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to...
עמוד 202 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident.
עמוד 357 - Who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials? what other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? it is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had a hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into silence...
עמוד 125 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil.
עמוד 398 - His sentences are never too much dilated or contracted; and it will not be easy to find any embarrassment in the complication of his clauses, any inconsequence in his connections, or abruptness in his transitions.
עמוד 50 - ... and. with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence in his cause. Thus qualified and thus incited, he walked out to battle, and assailed at once most of the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey.
עמוד 191 - Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for ; and Savage was therefore obliged to go and offer their new production to sale for two guineas, which with some difficulty he obtained. Sir Richard then returned home, having retired that day...