Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... writ- ing a Persian Fable ; in which I should have given full loose to description and imagination . It would have been a very wild thing , if I had executed it , but might not have been entertaining . - The same . It might be a very ...
... writ- ing a Persian Fable ; in which I should have given full loose to description and imagination . It would have been a very wild thing , if I had executed it , but might not have been entertaining . - The same . It might be a very ...
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... writ first with the suc- * The fourth book . Let Friend affect to speak as Terence spoke , And Alsop never but like Horace joke . Dunciad , iv . 224 . Ridenti Flaccus amico , & c . PERS . cessive alterations * , to learn his turns and ...
... writ first with the suc- * The fourth book . Let Friend affect to speak as Terence spoke , And Alsop never but like Horace joke . Dunciad , iv . 224 . Ridenti Flaccus amico , & c . PERS . cessive alterations * , to learn his turns and ...
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... writ an epic ; and I should have set down to it with this advan- tage - I had been nursed up in Homer and Virgil . - The same . Mr. Pope has still a most excellent me- mory , and that both of the sensible and local kind . When I ...
... writ an epic ; and I should have set down to it with this advan- tage - I had been nursed up in Homer and Virgil . - The same . Mr. Pope has still a most excellent me- mory , and that both of the sensible and local kind . When I ...
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... writ by Mr. Pope . The ballad the rabbit - woman , by him and Mr. Poult- ney ; and they wrote two or three more together . The same . Addison usually studied all the morning ; then met his party at Button's ; dined there , and stayed ...
... writ by Mr. Pope . The ballad the rabbit - woman , by him and Mr. Poult- ney ; and they wrote two or three more together . The same . Addison usually studied all the morning ; then met his party at Button's ; dined there , and stayed ...
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... writ as yet , what I look upon as more than half the work is already done , for it is all exactly planned . The same . " It would take up ten years ? " O much less , I should think , as the matter is already quite digested and prepared ...
... writ as yet , what I look upon as more than half the work is already done , for it is all exactly planned . The same . " It would take up ten years ? " O much less , I should think , as the matter is already quite digested and prepared ...
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Էջ 133 - That's very strange ; but. if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should' I have had ? A couple of lobsters; ay, that would have done very •well; two shillings; tarts, a shilling; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Էջ 112 - One day, as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner : " and then gave him the plan for it.
Էջ 134 - A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket? — 'No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Էջ 136 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
Էջ 10 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his ; that if I...
Էջ 148 - Snch a post as that, and such a wife as the Countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day when he will be heartily glad to resign them both.
Էջ 129 - Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard.
Էջ 19 - It was while I lived in the Forest, that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the classics in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together, three or four days in the week, and at last, almost every day.—Another of my earliest acquaintance was Walsh. I was with him at his seat in Worcestershire, for a good part of the summer of 1705, and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706.
Էջ 47 - P I endeavoured, (said he, smiling), in this poem, to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian.
Էջ 62 - He observed, how well that would hit my case, if I were to imitate it in English. After he was gone, I read it over ; translated it in a morning or two, and sent it to the press in a week or fortnight after. And this was the occasion of my imitating some other of the satires and epistles afterwards.