Lives of Eminent Novelists and DramatistsF. Warne, 1887 - 617 էջ |
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... received by the public with rapture . " In the history of British poetry , " says Lockhart , " nothing had ever equalled the demand for the Lay of the Last Minstrel . " " Scott became at once the most popular poet of the day . The poem ...
... received by the public with rapture . " In the history of British poetry , " says Lockhart , " nothing had ever equalled the demand for the Lay of the Last Minstrel . " " Scott became at once the most popular poet of the day . The poem ...
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... received as a pensioner under the tuition of St. George Ashe qn 24th April , 1862. His cousin , Thomas Swift , was admitted at the same time ; and the mention of the two names throughout the College records , without the Christian ...
... received as a pensioner under the tuition of St. George Ashe qn 24th April , 1862. His cousin , Thomas Swift , was admitted at the same time ; and the mention of the two names throughout the College records , without the Christian ...
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... received with respectful ease , and repaid by sound and constitutional advice . Nay , when Sir William's gout confined him to his chamber , the duty of attending the King devolved upon Swift , and it is recorded by all the poet's ...
... received with respectful ease , and repaid by sound and constitutional advice . Nay , when Sir William's gout confined him to his chamber , the duty of attending the King devolved upon Swift , and it is recorded by all the poet's ...
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... received the applause of many determined Whigs . The rough satirical force o the lines somewhat resembles the poetry of Churchill . Another copy of verses , written about the same period " in a lady's ivory table - book , " are curious ...
... received the applause of many determined Whigs . The rough satirical force o the lines somewhat resembles the poetry of Churchill . Another copy of verses , written about the same period " in a lady's ivory table - book , " are curious ...
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... received . He formed a pleasant garden ; smoothed the banks of a rivulet into a canal , and planted willows in regular ranks by its side . These willows , so often celebrated in the Journal to Stella , are now decayed or cut down ; the ...
... received . He formed a pleasant garden ; smoothed the banks of a rivulet into a canal , and planted willows in regular ranks by its side . These willows , so often celebrated in the Journal to Stella , are now decayed or cut down ; the ...
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Էջ 472 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm.
Էջ 241 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Էջ 241 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Էջ 575 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Էջ 341 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet ; that quality, without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy, which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Էջ 96 - 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 341 - Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and leveled by the roller.
Էջ 170 - He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Էջ 226 - ... tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch. The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility.
Էջ 470 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...