The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems , irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety ; and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems , irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety ; and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
Pagina 15
... seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler ...
... seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler ...
Pagina 17
... seems the effort of struggle and of toil . He has many vigorous but few happy lines ; he has every thing by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had no nightly visitations of the muse , no infusions of sentiment or felicities of fancy ...
... seems the effort of struggle and of toil . He has many vigorous but few happy lines ; he has every thing by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had no nightly visitations of the muse , no infusions of sentiment or felicities of fancy ...
Pagina 21
... seems to be a strange affectation in authors of ap- pearing to have done every thing by chance . " The Old Bachelor " was written for amusement in the languor of con- valescence . Yet it is apparently composed with great elabo- rateness ...
... seems to be a strange affectation in authors of ap- pearing to have done every thing by chance . " The Old Bachelor " was written for amusement in the languor of con- valescence . Yet it is apparently composed with great elabo- rateness ...
Pagina 25
... seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the " Spectator , " and only one paper to the " Tatler , " though published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived ...
... seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the " Spectator , " and only one paper to the " Tatler , " though published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived ...
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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