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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... Pindar , that when he lay in his cradle , the bees fwarm- ed about his mouth . About the time of the Revolution his fa- ther , who was undoubtedly difappointed by the fudden blaft of popish profperity , quitted his trade , whatever it ...
... Pindar , that when he lay in his cradle , the bees fwarm- ed about his mouth . About the time of the Revolution his fa- ther , who was undoubtedly difappointed by the fudden blaft of popish profperity , quitted his trade , whatever it ...
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... Pindar's authority , cried out at laft , Pindar was a bold fellow , but thou art an impudent one . If Pope's ode be particularly inspected , it will be found that the first stanza consists of founds well chosen indeed , but only founds ...
... Pindar's authority , cried out at laft , Pindar was a bold fellow , but thou art an impudent one . If Pope's ode be particularly inspected , it will be found that the first stanza consists of founds well chosen indeed , but only founds ...
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... thofe who can do greater . In his tranflations from Pindar he found the art of reaching all the obfcurity of the Theban bard , however he may fall below his X 3 fublimity ; fublimity ; he will be allowed , if he has A. PHILIPS . 309.
... thofe who can do greater . In his tranflations from Pindar he found the art of reaching all the obfcurity of the Theban bard , however he may fall below his X 3 fublimity ; fublimity ; he will be allowed , if he has A. PHILIPS . 309.
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... Pindar at Oxford about the beginning of this century . His mother was fifter to Sir Richard Temple , af- terwards lord Cobham . His father , pur- pofing to educate him for the Church , fent him firft to Eton , and afterwards to Oxford ...
... Pindar at Oxford about the beginning of this century . His mother was fifter to Sir Richard Temple , af- terwards lord Cobham . His father , pur- pofing to educate him for the Church , fent him firft to Eton , and afterwards to Oxford ...
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... piety . Of his learning the late Collection exhibits evidence , which would have been yet fuller if the differtations which accompany his verfion of Pindar had not been been improperly omitted . Of his piety the influence has 314 WEST .
... piety . Of his learning the late Collection exhibits evidence , which would have been yet fuller if the differtations which accompany his verfion of Pindar had not been been improperly omitted . Of his piety the influence has 314 WEST .
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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.