The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 350
... Night Thoughts , " of making the public a party in his private sorrow . Should justice call upon you to censure this poem , it ought at least to be remembered that he did not insert it in his works ; and that in the letter to Curll , as ...
... Night Thoughts , " of making the public a party in his private sorrow . Should justice call upon you to censure this poem , it ought at least to be remembered that he did not insert it in his works ; and that in the letter to Curll , as ...
Pagina 357
... thought , the lively and witty satirist at the grave age of almost fifty , who , many years earlier in life , wrote ... Night Thoughts ? " At the conclusion of the Preface he applies Plato's beauti- ful fable of " The Birth of Love " to ...
... thought , the lively and witty satirist at the grave age of almost fifty , who , many years earlier in life , wrote ... Night Thoughts ? " At the conclusion of the Preface he applies Plato's beauti- ful fable of " The Birth of Love " to ...
Pagina 362
... though in 1728 it was announced as " soon to be published , " never appeared ; and his old friends the muses were not ... Night Thoughts " deliberately refused to own . 66 Not long after this Pindaric attempt , he published Epistles to ...
... though in 1728 it was announced as " soon to be published , " never appeared ; and his old friends the muses were not ... Night Thoughts " deliberately refused to own . 66 Not long after this Pindaric attempt , he published Epistles to ...
Pagina 364
... Night Thoughts " ( and who has not read them ? ) needs to be informed . 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 . Yet how is ...
... Night Thoughts " ( and who has not read them ? ) needs to be informed . 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 . Yet how is ...
Pagina 365
... Night Thoughts . There is a pleasure sure in sadness which mourners only know ! Of these poems the two or three first have been perused perhaps more eagerly and more frequently than the rest . When he got as far as the fourth or fifth ...
... Night Thoughts . There is a pleasure sure in sadness which mourners only know ! Of these poems the two or three first have been perused perhaps more eagerly and more frequently than the rest . When he got as far as the fourth or fifth ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Johnson's Lives kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Landsdowne Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young