The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Waller. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, ... [and 24 others], 1781 - 503 頁 |
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第 16 頁
... such nicety of distinction , fuch fuch acquaintance with mankind , and such knowledge both of 16 POPE .
... such nicety of distinction , fuch fuch acquaintance with mankind , and such knowledge both of 16 POPE .
第 17 頁
Samuel Johnson. fuch acquaintance with mankind , and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learn- ing , as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience . It was published about two years afterwards , and being ...
Samuel Johnson. fuch acquaintance with mankind , and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learn- ing , as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience . It was published about two years afterwards , and being ...
第 18 頁
... such as rage might be ex- pected to dictate . He fuppofes himself to be asked two queftions ; whether the Effay will fucceed , and who or what is the author . Its fuccefs he admits to be fecured by the falfe opinions then prevalent ...
... such as rage might be ex- pected to dictate . He fuppofes himself to be asked two queftions ; whether the Effay will fucceed , and who or what is the author . Its fuccefs he admits to be fecured by the falfe opinions then prevalent ...
第 24 頁
... such he pro- pofed to her , but found it rejected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence be- tween the two lovers , and finding the young lady lady determined to abide by her own ...
... such he pro- pofed to her , but found it rejected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence be- tween the two lovers , and finding the young lady lady determined to abide by her own ...
第 48 頁
... Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will of Jove . Whofe limbs , unburied on the hoftile fhore , Devouring dogs and greedy vultures tore , Since firft Atrides and Achilles ftrove ; Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will ...
... Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will of Jove . Whofe limbs , unburied on the hoftile fhore , Devouring dogs and greedy vultures tore , Since firft Atrides and Achilles ftrove ; Such was the fovereign doom , and fuch the will ...
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第 143 頁 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
第 172 頁 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
第 120 頁 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
第 142 頁 - Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak as to stand in perpetual need of female attendance; extremely sensible of cold, so that he wore a kind of fur doublet under a shirt of a very coarse warm linen with fine sleeves.
第 166 頁 - Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.
第 438 頁 - Malloch to English Mallet, without any imaginable reason of preference which the eye or ear can discover. What other proofs he gave of disrespect to his native country, I know not ; but it was remarked of him, that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend.
第 324 頁 - He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.
第 485 頁 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
第 123 頁 - If the whole may be estimated by this specimen, which seems to be the production of Arbuthnot, with a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more will not be much lamented; for the follies which the writer ridicules are so little practised, that they are not known...
第 291 頁 - But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.