The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 |
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... queen Mary , in 1695 , produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted ...
... queen Mary , in 1695 , produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted ...
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... queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had there- fore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen , Prior , among the ...
... queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had there- fore leisure to make or to polish verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen , Prior , among the ...
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... queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were insolent . Harley and his friends began to hope that they might , by driving the whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the ...
... queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were insolent . Harley and his friends began to hope that they might , by driving the whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the ...
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... queen's ministers met Mesnager , September 20 , 1711 , and entered pri- vately upon the great business . The importance of Prior ap- pears from the mention made of him by St. John in his letter to the queen . " My lord treasurer moved ...
... queen's ministers met Mesnager , September 20 , 1711 , and entered pri- vately upon the great business . The importance of Prior ap- pears from the mention made of him by St. John in his letter to the queen . " My lord treasurer moved ...
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... queen's orders , the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakedness of thy country , and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy coun ...
... queen's orders , the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakedness of thy country , and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy coun ...
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第 217 頁 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.
第 216 頁 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
第 295 頁 - ... the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.
第 441 頁 - ... cultivated ; that he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all, but that he was fastidious and hard to please.
第 440 頁 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil ; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism, metaphysics...
第 179 頁 - Tale of a Tub" has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar that it must be considered by itself ; what is true of that, is not true of any thing else which he has written.
第 277 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 275 頁 - He considered poetry as the business of his life, and, however he might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy: to make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last.
第 366 頁 - This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur of wildness, and the novelty of extravagance, were always desired by him, but were not always attained.
第 350 頁 - He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his , Dissertation on St. Paul.