The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 61790 |
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... Some time after this , in confequence of his merit and reputation , or of the intereft of Lord Bradford , to whom , in 1702 , he de- dicated two volumes of fermons , he was ap- pointed chaplain to King William and Queen Mary , Mary ...
... Some time after this , in confequence of his merit and reputation , or of the intereft of Lord Bradford , to whom , in 1702 , he de- dicated two volumes of fermons , he was ap- pointed chaplain to King William and Queen Mary , Mary ...
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... some scenes of a tragedy on the ftory of Mary Queen of Scots . Dryden dedicated " Marriage à la Mode " : to Wharton's infamous relation Rochefter ; whom he acknowledges not only as the de- fender of his poetry , but as the promoter of ...
... some scenes of a tragedy on the ftory of Mary Queen of Scots . Dryden dedicated " Marriage à la Mode " : to Wharton's infamous relation Rochefter ; whom he acknowledges not only as the de- fender of his poetry , but as the promoter of ...
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... Some fevenfold volumes put him in mind of Ovid's fevenfold channels of the Nile at the conflagra- tion . -oftia feptem Pulverulenta vocant , feptem fine flumine valles . Such leaden labours are like Lycurgus's iron money , which was fo ...
... Some fevenfold volumes put him in mind of Ovid's fevenfold channels of the Nile at the conflagra- tion . -oftia feptem Pulverulenta vocant , feptem fine flumine valles . Such leaden labours are like Lycurgus's iron money , which was fo ...
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... was printed . I be- lieve the poems and the plates recommended each other fo well , that the whole impreffion was foon bought . This year he loft his mo- ther . VOL . VI . I Some Some time afterwards ( 1756 ) fome young men of GRAY . 113.
... was printed . I be- lieve the poems and the plates recommended each other fo well , that the whole impreffion was foon bought . This year he loft his mo- ther . VOL . VI . I Some Some time afterwards ( 1756 ) fome young men of GRAY . 113.
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... Some that tried them confeffed their inability to un- derftand them , though Warburton faid that they were understood as well as the works of Milton and Shakspeare , which it is the fafhion to admire . Garrick wrote a few lines in their ...
... Some that tried them confeffed their inability to un- derftand them , though Warburton faid that they were understood as well as the works of Milton and Shakspeare , which it is the fafhion to admire . Garrick wrote a few lines in their ...
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Página 82 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity...
Página 129 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Página 130 - The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Página 130 - Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them.
Página 118 - ... merely as a man of letters; and though without birth, or fortune, or station, his desire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman, who read for his amusement.
Página 99 - ... being such as he was not inclined to give precipitately, he carried the work to Pope, who, having looked into it, advised him not to make a niggardly offer ; for " this was no every-day writer.
Página 162 - mild and affable in private life, of gentle manners, and very engaging in conversation. He was an excellent scholar, and an easy natural poet. His peculiar excellence was the dressing up an old thought in a new, neat, and trim manner. He was contented to scamper round the foot of Parnassus on his little Welsh poney, which seems never to have tired.
Página 141 - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed, as from a copious spring.
Página 124 - An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art: an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature.
Página 132 - The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.