The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... because he difcovers a fuffi- ciency beyond his little ability , and hath rafhly undertaken a task infinitely above his force . Secondly , while this little author ftruts , and affects the dictatorian air , he plainly fhews that at the ...
... because he difcovers a fuffi- ciency beyond his little ability , and hath rafhly undertaken a task infinitely above his force . Secondly , while this little author ftruts , and affects the dictatorian air , he plainly fhews that at the ...
Halaman 58
... because he had contributed to the Guardian , which was carried on by Steele . To those who cenfured his politicks were added enemies yet more dangerous , who called in queftion his knowledge of Greek , and his qualifications for a tran ...
... because he had contributed to the Guardian , which was carried on by Steele . To those who cenfured his politicks were added enemies yet more dangerous , who called in queftion his knowledge of Greek , and his qualifications for a tran ...
Halaman 59
... because his pofitions are general , and his reprefentations natural , with very little dependence on local or temporary customs , on thofe changeable fcenes of artificial life , which , by min- gling original with accidental notions ...
... because his pofitions are general , and his reprefentations natural , with very little dependence on local or temporary customs , on thofe changeable fcenes of artificial life , which , by min- gling original with accidental notions ...
Halaman 95
... because I have been fo " happy as to divert you fome few " hours ; but , if I may have leave to " add it is because you think me no enemy to my native country , there " will appear a better reafon ; for I " muft of confequence be very ...
... because I have been fo " happy as to divert you fome few " hours ; but , if I may have leave to " add it is because you think me no enemy to my native country , there " will appear a better reafon ; for I " muft of confequence be very ...
Halaman 112
... because the reader knows not what they have blot- ted . Pope's voracity of fame taught him the art of obtaining the accumu- lated honour both of what he had pub- lished , and of what he had fuppreffed . In this year his father died ...
... because the reader knows not what they have blot- ted . Pope's voracity of fame taught him the art of obtaining the accumu- lated honour both of what he had pub- lished , and of what he had fuppreffed . In this year his father died ...
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Halaman 347 - As Gay was the favourite of our author, this epitaph was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more successfully executed than the rest, for it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labour.
Halaman 212 - 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.
Halaman 256 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Halaman 246 - 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.
Halaman 76 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
Halaman 315 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Halaman 255 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Halaman 252 - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Halaman 85 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Halaman 252 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...