The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... received no improve- ment from his maturer ftudies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wicherley , a man who feems to have had among his contemporaries his full fhare of reputation , to have been efteemed without virtue , and ...
... received no improve- ment from his maturer ftudies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wicherley , a man who feems to have had among his contemporaries his full fhare of reputation , to have been efteemed without virtue , and ...
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... to Curll , who inferted them in a volume of his Mifcellanies . Walsh , a name yet preferved among the minor poets , was one of his first encouragers . His regard was gained by by the Paftorals , and from him Pope received the 18 POPE .
... to Curll , who inferted them in a volume of his Mifcellanies . Walsh , a name yet preferved among the minor poets , was one of his first encouragers . His regard was gained by by the Paftorals , and from him Pope received the 18 POPE .
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Samuel Johnson. by the Paftorals , and from him Pope received the counfel by which he feems to have regulated his ftudies . Walsh advised him to correctness , which , as he told him , the English poets had hitherto neglected , and which ...
Samuel Johnson. by the Paftorals , and from him Pope received the counfel by which he feems to have regulated his ftudies . Walsh advised him to correctness , which , as he told him , the English poets had hitherto neglected , and which ...
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... received , and the patrons of literature were bufy to re- commend his undertaking , and promote his intereft . Lord Oxford , indeed , la- mented that fuch a genius fhould be wafled wafted upon a work not original ; but propofed no 52 POPE .
... received , and the patrons of literature were bufy to re- commend his undertaking , and promote his intereft . Lord Oxford , indeed , la- mented that fuch a genius fhould be wafled wafted upon a work not original ; but propofed no 52 POPE .
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... received , including the two hundred pounds a volume , five thousand three hundred and twenty pounds four fhillings , without deduction , as the books were fupplied by Lintot . By the fuccefs of his fubfcription Pope was relieved from ...
... received , including the two hundred pounds a volume , five thousand three hundred and twenty pounds four fhillings , without deduction , as the books were fupplied by Lintot . By the fuccefs of his fubfcription Pope was relieved from ...
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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...