The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Waller. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 էջ |
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... Paftorals , which were fhewn to the Poets and Criticks of that time ; as they well deserved , they were read with ad- miration , and many praises were bestowed upon them and upon the Preface , which is both elegant and learned in a high ...
... Paftorals , which were fhewn to the Poets and Criticks of that time ; as they well deserved , they were read with ad- miration , and many praises were bestowed upon them and upon the Preface , which is both elegant and learned in a high ...
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... Paftorals , which had been for fome time handed about among poets and criticks , were at last printed ( 1709 ) in Tonson's Mif- cellany , in a volume which began with the Paftorals of Philips , and ended with those of Pope . The fame ...
... Paftorals , which had been for fome time handed about among poets and criticks , were at last printed ( 1709 ) in Tonson's Mif- cellany , in a volume which began with the Paftorals of Philips , and ended with those of Pope . The fame ...
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... Paftorals with want of invention , is to require what never was in- tended . The imitations are fo ambitiously frequent , that the writer evidently means rather to fhew his literature than his wit . It is furely fufficient for an author ...
... Paftorals with want of invention , is to require what never was in- tended . The imitations are fo ambitiously frequent , that the writer evidently means rather to fhew his literature than his wit . It is furely fufficient for an author ...
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... Paftorals , however , I know not that any one had then lately published . Not long afterwards Pope made the first display of his powers in four Pastorals , writ- ten in a very different form . Philips had taken Spenfer , and Pope took ...
... Paftorals , however , I know not that any one had then lately published . Not long afterwards Pope made the first display of his powers in four Pastorals , writ- ten in a very different form . Philips had taken Spenfer , and Pope took ...
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... nor above it . Among the Poems comprifed in the late col- lection , the Letter from Denmark may be juftly praised ; the Paftorals , which by the writer of the Guardian were ranked as one of the four 2 of 308 A. PHILIP S.
... nor above it . Among the Poems comprifed in the late col- lection , the Letter from Denmark may be juftly praised ; the Paftorals , which by the writer of the Guardian were ranked as one of the four 2 of 308 A. PHILIP S.
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Էջ 143 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
Էջ 172 - 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.
Էջ 120 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Էջ 142 - Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak as to stand in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely sensible of cold, so that he wore a kind of fur doublet under a shirt of a very coarse warm linen with fine sleeves.
Էջ 166 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
Էջ 438 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Էջ 324 - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.
Էջ 485 - 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.
Էջ 123 - If the whole may be estimated by this specimen, which seems to be the production of Arbuthnot, with a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more will not be much lamented; for the follies which the writer ridicules are so little practised, that they are not known...
Էջ 291 - But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.