The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 6-10 van 100
Pagina 33
... least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole life . His ardour of poetry still continued ; and not long after Johnson's Lives . II . 3 W ( 1700 ) he published " A Paraphrase on BLACKMORE . 33.
... least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole life . His ardour of poetry still continued ; and not long after Johnson's Lives . II . 3 W ( 1700 ) he published " A Paraphrase on BLACKMORE . 33.
Pagina 34
... published " A Satire on Wit ; " a procla- mation of defiance , which united the poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and evidently despised ; nor ...
... published " A Satire on Wit ; " a procla- mation of defiance , which united the poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and evidently despised ; nor ...
Pagina 35
... published " Creation , " a philo- sophical poem , which has been by my recommendation inserted in the late collection . Whoever judges of this by any other of Blackmore's performances will do it injury . The praise given it by Addison ...
... published " Creation , " a philo- sophical poem , which has been by my recommendation inserted in the late collection . Whoever judges of this by any other of Blackmore's performances will do it injury . The praise given it by Addison ...
Pagina 36
... published three times a week " The Lay Monastery , " founded on the supposition that some literary men , whose characters are described , had retired to a house in the country to enjoy philosophical leisure , and resolved to instruct ...
... published three times a week " The Lay Monastery , " founded on the supposition that some literary men , whose characters are described , had retired to a house in the country to enjoy philosophical leisure , and resolved to instruct ...
Pagina 37
... published two volumes of Essays in prose , which can be commended only as they are written for the highest and noblest purpose the promotion of religion . Blackmore's prose is not the prose of a poet : for it is languid , sluggish , and ...
... published two volumes of Essays in prose , which can be commended only as they are written for the highest and noblest purpose the promotion of religion . Blackmore's prose is not the prose of a poet : for it is languid , sluggish , and ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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