The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Հատոր 1J. Rivington & Sons, L. Davis, B. White & Son, T. Longman, B. Law, ... [and 35 others in London], 1790 |
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... paffed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a repre- fentation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley fays was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and re- peated by the scholars . That ...
... paffed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with a repre- fentation of the " Guardian , " a comedy , which Cowley fays was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and re- peated by the scholars . That ...
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... paffed between the King and Queen ; an employment of the highest cou- fidence and honour . So wide was his pro- * In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which was never inferted in any collection of his " works ...
... paffed between the King and Queen ; an employment of the highest cou- fidence and honour . So wide was his pro- * In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which was never inferted in any collection of his " works ...
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... paffed of courfe into other hands ; " Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile hand , And lie unbury'd on the barren fand . Lord FALKLAND's : DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promiffa parenti ...
... paffed of courfe into other hands ; " Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall untimely by fome hoftile hand , And lie unbury'd on the barren fand . Lord FALKLAND's : DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promiffa parenti ...
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... paffed on to Naples , in company of a hermit , a companion from whom little could be expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manfo marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Taffo . Manfo was enough delighted ...
... paffed on to Naples , in company of a hermit , a companion from whom little could be expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manfo marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Taffo . Manfo was enough delighted ...
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... paffed through France ; and came home , after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , fince he was thought by ...
... paffed through France ; and came home , after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , fince he was thought by ...
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Էջ 113 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Էջ 55 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Էջ 347 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Էջ 119 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear ; He not from Rome alone, but Greece, Like Jason brought the golden fleece ; To him that language, though to none Of th' others, as his own was known.
Էջ 271 - ... he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first.
Էջ 216 - To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Էջ 25 - I am yet unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging.
Էջ 30 - The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.
Էջ 260 - But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment or ascribe to them any material agency is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity.
Էջ 40 - On a round ball A workman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all...