The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... called " In- cognita , or Love and Duty reconciled : " it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is , indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly judicious . I would rathrer praise it than read it ...
... called " In- cognita , or Love and Duty reconciled : " it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is , indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly judicious . I would rathrer praise it than read it ...
Pagina 37
... called in the title " A Sequel to the Spectators . " - Some years afterwards ( 1716 and 1717 ) he published two volumes of Essays in prose , which can be commended only as they are written for the highest and noblest purpose the ...
... called in the title " A Sequel to the Spectators . " - Some years afterwards ( 1716 and 1717 ) he published two volumes of Essays in prose , which can be commended only as they are written for the highest and noblest purpose the ...
Pagina 49
... called , and when she had taken her place was careful to shew her particu- lar attention . His collection of poems is now to be considered . The Ode to the Sun is written upon a common plan , without uncommon sentiments ; but its ...
... called , and when she had taken her place was careful to shew her particu- lar attention . His collection of poems is now to be considered . The Ode to the Sun is written upon a common plan , without uncommon sentiments ; but its ...
Pagina 53
... called " The Wife of Bath " upon the stage , but it received no applause ; he printed it , however , and seventeen years after , having altered it , and , as he thought , adapted it more to the public taste , he offered it again to the ...
... called " The Wife of Bath " upon the stage , but it received no applause ; he printed it , however , and seventeen years after , having altered it , and , as he thought , adapted it more to the public taste , he offered it again to the ...
Pagina 54
... called " The Key to the What d'ye call it , " which , says Gay , " calls me a blockhead , and Mr. Pope a knave . ” But fortune has always been inconstant . Not long after- wards ( 1717 ) he endeavoured to entertain the town with " Three ...
... called " The Key to the What d'ye call it , " which , says Gay , " calls me a blockhead , and Mr. Pope a knave . ” But fortune has always been inconstant . Not long after- wards ( 1717 ) he endeavoured to entertain the town with " Three ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips 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 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 racters 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