The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 158
... learning scarcely to be found in any other performances , but which perhaps as often obscures as embel- lishes them . His judgment was eminently exact both with regard to writings and to men . The knowledge of life was indeed his chief ...
... learning scarcely to be found in any other performances , but which perhaps as often obscures as embel- lishes them . His judgment was eminently exact both with regard to writings and to men . The knowledge of life was indeed his chief ...
Pagina 167
... learning have been justly distributed by the decision of posterity . " The Battle of the Books " is so like the " Combat des Livres , " which the same question concerning the ancients and moderns had produced in France , that the ...
... learning have been justly distributed by the decision of posterity . " The Battle of the Books " is so like the " Combat des Livres , " which the same question concerning the ancients and moderns had produced in France , that the ...
Pagina 175
... learning among the men , and of elegance among the women . Mrs. Johnson had left the country , and lived in lodgings not far from the deanery . On his public days she regulated the table , but appeared at it as a mere guest , like other ...
... learning among the men , and of elegance among the women . Mrs. Johnson had left the country , and lived in lodgings not far from the deanery . On his public days she regulated the table , but appeared at it as a mere guest , like other ...
Pagina 183
... learning , and some women of elegance , often visited him ; and he wrote from time to time either verse or prose : of his verses he willingly gave copies , and is supposed to have felt no discontent when he saw them printed . His ...
... learning , and some women of elegance , often visited him ; and he wrote from time to time either verse or prose : of his verses he willingly gave copies , and is supposed to have felt no discontent when he saw them printed . His ...
Pagina 186
... learning . He pays no court to the passions ; he excites neither surprise nor admiration ; he always understands him- self , and his reader always understands him ; the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be ...
... learning . He pays no court to the passions ; he excites neither surprise nor admiration ; he always understands him- self , and his reader always understands him ; the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be ...
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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