Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 50
... express a savage nature in fastening upon the celebrated author , dwelling upon his imaginary defects , and passing over his conspicuous excellences . He treats all writers upon the same impartial foot , and is not , like the little ...
... express a savage nature in fastening upon the celebrated author , dwelling upon his imaginary defects , and passing over his conspicuous excellences . He treats all writers upon the same impartial foot , and is not , like the little ...
Pagina 51
... express more kindness and good - nature to young and unfinished authors . He promotes their interests , protects their reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity ...
... express more kindness and good - nature to young and unfinished authors . He promotes their interests , protects their reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity ...
Pagina 102
... that it might appear how little time he had left for plots . Pope had but few words to utter , and in those few he made several blunders . His letters to Atterbury express the utmost esteem , tenderness 102 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... that it might appear how little time he had left for plots . Pope had but few words to utter , and in those few he made several blunders . His letters to Atterbury express the utmost esteem , tenderness 102 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pagina 147
... express his habitual and settled resentments , but either wilfully disguises his own character , or , what is more likely , invests himself with temporary qualities , and sallies out in the colours of the present moment . His hopes and ...
... express his habitual and settled resentments , but either wilfully disguises his own character , or , what is more likely , invests himself with temporary qualities , and sallies out in the colours of the present moment . His hopes and ...
Pagina 158
... express their own thoughts : Pope , with all this labour in the praise of music , was ignorant of its principles and insensible of its effects . One of his greatest , though of his earliest works , is the " Essay on Criticism , " which ...
... express their own thoughts : Pope , with all this labour in the praise of music , was ignorant of its principles and insensible of its effects . One of his greatest , though of his earliest works , is the " Essay on Criticism , " which ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original passages performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation resentment ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey WILLIAM CONGREVE write written wrote