The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 3J. Nichols and son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1806 |
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... such force as authority was unable to refift . He faid truly of himself , that Ireland was his debtor . " It was from the time when he first began to patronize the Irish , that they may date their riches and profperity . He taught them ...
... such force as authority was unable to refift . He faid truly of himself , that Ireland was his debtor . " It was from the time when he first began to patronize the Irish , that they may date their riches and profperity . He taught them ...
Pagina 61
... such confidence , was fufficiently bold in his criticifms , and liberal in his alterations , the old fcribbler was angry to fee his pages defaced , and felt more pain from the detection than content from the amendment of his faults ...
... such confidence , was fufficiently bold in his criticifms , and liberal in his alterations , the old fcribbler was angry to fee his pages defaced , and felt more pain from the detection than content from the amendment of his faults ...
Pagina 71
... such unexampled excel- lence . Those performances , which ftrike with won- der , are combinations of fkilful genius with happy cafualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like F 4 the the discovery of a new race of preternatural ...
... such unexampled excel- lence . Those performances , which ftrike with won- der , are combinations of fkilful genius with happy cafualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like F 4 the the discovery of a new race of preternatural ...
Pagina 85
... Such was the fovereign doom , and such the will of Jove ; Declare , O Mufe , in what ill - fated hour Sprung the fierce itrife , from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion spread , And heap'd the camp with mountains of the ...
... Such was the fovereign doom , and such the will of Jove ; Declare , O Mufe , in what ill - fated hour Sprung the fierce itrife , from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion spread , And heap'd the camp with mountains of the ...
Pagina 89
... Such glories Pallas on her chief bestow'd , Such sparkling rays from his bright armour flow'd ; Such from his arms the fierce effulgence flow'd ; Onward the drives him headlong to engage , furious Where the war bleeds , and where the ...
... Such glories Pallas on her chief bestow'd , Such sparkling rays from his bright armour flow'd ; Such from his arms the fierce effulgence flow'd ; Onward the drives him headlong to engage , furious Where the war bleeds , and where the ...
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Pagina 321 - words, that Young's unbounded genius appeared to greater advantage in the companion than even in the author; that the Chriftian was in him a character ftill more infpired, more enraptured, more fublime, than the poet; and that, in his ordinary converfation, letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the fky.
Pagina 84 - the deep ferene, And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure fhed, And tip with filver every mountain's head ; Then ihine the vales, the rocks in profpeft rife, A flood of glory burfts from all the
Pagina 188 - that has once been afked, Whether Pope was a poet ; otherwife than by afking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the narrownefs of the definer, though a definition which
Pagina 160 - circumference of fcience. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehenfive fpeculation ; and thofe of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the
Pagina 84 - The confcious fwains, rejoicing in the fight, Eye the blue vault, and blefs the ufeful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflection of the diftant fires . Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the fpires. A thoufand piles the dufky horrors gild, And
Pagina 227 - of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley. His numbers, his paufes, his diction, are of his own growth, without tranfcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of
Pagina 103 - almoft all the letters of the alphabet (the '' greateft part of them at random :) but fuch was " the number of poets eminent in that art, that " fome one or other took every letter to himfelf: *' all fell into fo violent a fury, that, for half a year " or more, the common newfpapers (in moft of "which
Pagina 274 - charmer to vie j How they vary their accents in vain, Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural ftrain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I
Pagina 79 - from what offended Power ? Latona's fon a dire contagion fpread, And heap'd the camp with mountains of the dead ; The King of men his reverend prieft defy'd, And for the King's offence the people dy'd. Declare, O Goddefs, what offended Power Enflam'd their rage, in that ill-omen d hour ; anger fatal,
Pagina 120 - ought never to have another anfwer, " and deferved not fo good an one. I can only fay, " you do him too much honour, and me too much " right, fo odd as the expreffion feems; for you '' have made my fyftem as clear as I ought to have '' done, and could not. It is indeed the fame