The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 27
... language , nor skill in versification ; yet , if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in " The Mourning Bride : " ALMERIA . It was ...
... language , nor skill in versification ; yet , if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in " The Mourning Bride : " ALMERIA . It was ...
Pagina 32
... language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen who ...
... language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen who ...
Pagina 38
... language . " As to its efficient cause , wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitution of the possessor of it , in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments , and an ...
... language . " As to its efficient cause , wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitution of the possessor of it , in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments , and an ...
Pagina 50
... language to Dryden's " Cecilia . " Fenton may be justly styled an excellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to Broome an account of his death . By ...
... language to Dryden's " Cecilia . " Fenton may be justly styled an excellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to Broome an account of his death . By ...
Pagina 53
... language , and by consequence in a style that was never spoken nor written in any age or in any place . But the effect of reality and truth became conspicuous , even when the intention was to shew them grovelling and de- graded . These ...
... language , and by consequence in a style that was never spoken nor written in any age or in any place . But the effect of reality and truth became conspicuous , even when the intention was to shew them grovelling and de- graded . These ...
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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 Earl 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