The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Waller. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 pages |
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... given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and fhe many years af- terwards fold them to Curll , who inferted them in a volume of his Mifcellanies . Walsh , a name yet preferved among the minor poets , was one of his firft encouragers , His ...
... given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and fhe many years af- terwards fold them to Curll , who inferted them in a volume of his Mifcellanies . Walsh , a name yet preferved among the minor poets , was one of his firft encouragers , His ...
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... given by himself of his ftudies was , that from fourteen to twenty he read only for arnufement , from twenty to twenty - feven for improvement and inftruction ; that in the first part of this time he defired only to know , and in the ...
... given by himself of his ftudies was , that from fourteen to twenty he read only for arnufement , from twenty to twenty - feven for improvement and inftruction ; that in the first part of this time he defired only to know , and in the ...
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... given her a proper education , expected like other guardians that she should make at least an equal match ; and such he pro- pofed to her , but found it rejected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered ...
... given her a proper education , expected like other guardians that she should make at least an equal match ; and such he pro- pofed to her , but found it rejected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered ...
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... given with evident in- tention to raise the Lady's character , it does not appear that she had any claim to praise , nor much to compaffion . She feems to have been impatient , violent , and ungovernable . Her unkle's power could not ...
... given with evident in- tention to raise the Lady's character , it does not appear that she had any claim to praise , nor much to compaffion . She feems to have been impatient , violent , and ungovernable . Her unkle's power could not ...
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... given to this tranfla- tion , though report feems to have over - rated it , was fuch as the world has not often seen . The fubfcribers were five hundred and seventy- five . The copies , for which fubfcriptions were given , were fix ...
... given to this tranfla- tion , though report feems to have over - rated it , was fuch as the world has not often seen . The fubfcribers were five hundred and seventy- five . The copies , for which fubfcriptions were given , were fix ...
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Page 143 - 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.
Page 172 - 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.
Page 120 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 142 - Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak as to stand in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely sensible of cold, so that he wore a kind of fur doublet under a shirt of a very coarse warm linen with fine sleeves.
Page 166 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
Page 438 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
Page 324 - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.
Page 485 - 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.
Page 123 - If the whole may be estimated by this specimen, which seems to be the production of Arbuthnot, with a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more will not be much lamented; for the follies which the writer ridicules are so little practised, that they are not known...
Page 291 - But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.