The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volume 2William Milner., 1835 |
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... received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him in Ireland : but , after having passed through the usual preparatory ...
... received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him in Ireland : but , after having passed through the usual preparatory ...
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... received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron , the lord Halifax , a de- dication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few friends among the audience . These apologies are always useless : " de ...
... received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron , the lord Halifax , a de- dication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few friends among the audience . These apologies are always useless : " de ...
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... received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still continues to be acted and applauded . But whatever objections may be made , either to his comic or tragic excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of ...
... received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still continues to be acted and applauded . But whatever objections may be made , either to his comic or tragic excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of ...
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... received with so little favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for ...
... received with so little favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for ...
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... received a visit from Voltaire , disgusted him by the despicable foppery of desiring to be considered not as an author but a gentleman ; to which the Frenchman re- plied , “ that if he had been only a gentleman , he should not have come ...
... received a visit from Voltaire , disgusted him by the despicable foppery of desiring to be considered not as an author but a gentleman ; to which the Frenchman re- plied , “ that if he had been only a gentleman , he should not have come ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance Addison afterwards AMBROSE PHILIPS appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton friends friendship gave genius happy honour Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning letter lines lived lord lord Halifax Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed once Orrery panegyric passion pastorals performance perhaps Philips Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young
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Página 224 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Página 224 - And lighten glimmering 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 410 - 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. The 'Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Página 287 - 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 335 - Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action will look with veneration on the writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson that humility can teach.
Página 365 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Página 285 - Essay would be unprofitably tedious; but I cannot forbear to observe, that the comparison of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey of a traveller in the Alps, is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it.
Página 329 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Página 231 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 349 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.