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... died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained , from King William , a promise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Wesminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift ...
... died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained , from King William , a promise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Wesminster or Canterbury . That this promise might not be forgotten , Swift ...
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... died Mrs , Van Homrigh , a woman made unhappy by her admiration of wit , and ignominious- ly distinguished by the name of Vanessa , whose con- duct has been already sufficiently discussed , and whose history is too well known to be ...
... died Mrs , Van Homrigh , a woman made unhappy by her admiration of wit , and ignominious- ly distinguished by the name of Vanessa , whose con- duct has been already sufficiently discussed , and whose history is too well known to be ...
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... died of disappoint- ment ; having ordered by her will the poem to be published , in which Cadenus had proclaimed her ex- cellence , and confessed his love . The effect of the publication upon the Dean and Stella is thus related by ...
... died of disappoint- ment ; having ordered by her will the poem to be published , in which Cadenus had proclaimed her ex- cellence , and confessed his love . The effect of the publication upon the Dean and Stella is thus related by ...
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... died in her forty - fourth year , on January 28 , 1728. How much he wished her life , his papers shew ; nor can it be doubted that he dreaded the death of her whom he loved most , aggravated by the consciousness that himself had ...
... died in her forty - fourth year , on January 28 , 1728. How much he wished her life , his papers shew ; nor can it be doubted that he dreaded the death of her whom he loved most , aggravated by the consciousness that himself had ...
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... died under the tyranny of him , by whom she was in the highest degree loved and ho- noured . What were her claims to this eccentrick tender- ness , by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her , curiosity will enquire ; but ...
... died under the tyranny of him , by whom she was in the highest degree loved and ho- noured . What were her claims to this eccentrick tender- ness , by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her , curiosity will enquire ; but ...
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Aaron Hill Addison afterwards appears blank verse Bolingbroke Broome Busiris called censure character copy criticism Curll death delight diction diligence discovered Dorset downs Dryden Duke Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence fame father faults favour friendship genius Homer honour Iliad images Ireland kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax lyrick Lyttelton Mallet ment mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers once opinion Orrery passage perhaps Philips Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced prose publick published racter reader reason received reputation rhyme satire says seems sent shew shewn solicited sometimes soon stanza supposed Swift tell thing Thomson tion told tragedy translation truth Warburton Whigs write written wrote Young
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Página 168 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Página 178 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Página 212 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Página 90 - Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
Página 167 - Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment were not allotted in a less proportion to Dryden than to Pope. The rectitude of Dryden's mind was sufficiently shown by the dismission of his poetical prejudices, and the rejection of unnatural thoughts and rugged numbers. But Dryden never desired to apply all the judgment that he had.
Página 97 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Página 267 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Página 193 - Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism...
Página 312 - Milton, Death, and Sin. From the following passage in the poetical Dedication of his " Sea-piece" to Voltaire, it seems that this extemporaneous reproof, if it must be extemporaneous (for what few will now affirm Voltaire to have deserved any reproof), was something longer than a distich, and something more gentle than the distich just quoted. No stranger, Sir, though born in foreign climes. On Dorset downs, when Milton's page, With Sin and Death provok'd thy rage, Thy rage provok'd, who sooth'd...
Página 207 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.