Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Work, Selected from the Most Distinguished Writers |
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His forced rhymes , and his sentences written to fill up , which in a less part would
be intolerable , are accompanied with such endless grace and charming
pleasure , that although it is to be no more expected of anybody to read him
through at ...
His forced rhymes , and his sentences written to fill up , which in a less part would
be intolerable , are accompanied with such endless grace and charming
pleasure , that although it is to be no more expected of anybody to read him
through at ...
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pleted , it is easy to see that no additional cantos could have rendered it less
perplexed . But still there is a richness in bis materials , even where their
coherence is loose , and their disposition confused . The clouds of his allegory
may seem to ...
pleted , it is easy to see that no additional cantos could have rendered it less
perplexed . But still there is a richness in bis materials , even where their
coherence is loose , and their disposition confused . The clouds of his allegory
may seem to ...
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If tradition may be depended upon , he was necessitated in the first instance to
become the prompter ' s call - boy , or attendant , whilo another less probable
story describes him as holding the horses of those who attended the play without
...
If tradition may be depended upon , he was necessitated in the first instance to
become the prompter ' s call - boy , or attendant , whilo another less probable
story describes him as holding the horses of those who attended the play without
...
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In all works of merit , however , and especially in all works of original genius ,
there are a thousand retiring and less obtrusive graces , which escape hasty and
superficial observers , and only give out their beauties to fond and patient ...
In all works of merit , however , and especially in all works of original genius ,
there are a thousand retiring and less obtrusive graces , which escape hasty and
superficial observers , and only give out their beauties to fond and patient ...
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Although his sails are purple and perfumed , and his prow of beaten gold , they
waft him on his voyage not less , but more rapidly and directly , than if they had
been composed of baser materials . All his excellences , like those of nature
herself ...
Although his sails are purple and perfumed , and his prow of beaten gold , they
waft him on his voyage not less , but more rapidly and directly , than if they had
been composed of baser materials . All his excellences , like those of nature
herself ...
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60 페이지 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
361 페이지 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
460 페이지 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low • So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that...
60 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
361 페이지 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degenerate times of shame To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame; Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
312 페이지 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
281 페이지 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
333 페이지 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics, morals, politics, made a principal part of his study; voyages and travels of all sorts were his favourite amusements; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints,...
184 페이지 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit: Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.
218 페이지 - So soon as that spare Cassius. 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.