The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets, concluded. Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- fhire under Taverner , a Romish prieft , who , by a me- thod very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly ...
... hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- fhire under Taverner , a Romish prieft , who , by a me- thod very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly ...
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... hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern English , He tranflated likewife the Epistle ...
... hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern English , He tranflated likewife the Epistle ...
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... hands for correction . Their correfpondence afforded the publick its first knowledge of Pope's Epiftolary Powers ; for his Let- ters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and the many years afterwards fold them to Curll , who in ...
... hands for correction . Their correfpondence afforded the publick its first knowledge of Pope's Epiftolary Powers ; for his Let- ters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and the many years afterwards fold them to Curll , who in ...
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... hand to colour and embellish it . His attempt was juftified by its fuccefs . The Rape of the Lack ftands forward , in the claffes of literature , as the most exquifite example of ludicrous poetry . Berkeley congratulated him upon the ...
... hand to colour and embellish it . His attempt was juftified by its fuccefs . The Rape of the Lack ftands forward , in the claffes of literature , as the most exquifite example of ludicrous poetry . Berkeley congratulated him upon the ...
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... hand of Betterton . The next year ( 1713 ) produced a bolder attempt , by which profit was fought as well as praife . The poems which he had hitherto written , however they might have diffufed his name , had made very little ad- dition ...
... hand of Betterton . The next year ( 1713 ) produced a bolder attempt , by which profit was fought as well as praife . The poems which he had hitherto written , however they might have diffufed his name , had made very little ad- dition ...
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Página 107 - 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.
Página 88 - 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.
Página 106 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 134 - New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity.
Página 144 - The lines on Craggs were not originally intended for an epitaph ; and therefore some faults are to be imputed to the violence with which they are torn from the poem that first contained them.
Página 107 - What his mind could supply at call or gather in one excursion was all that he sought and all that he gave.
Página 295 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Página 106 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Página 210 - I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear. She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 106 - 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. 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 levelled by the roller.