The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... From this account , given with evi- dent intention to raise the Lady's cha- racter , it does not appear that he had any claim to praife , nor much to com- paffion . C 2 paffion . She feems to have been impa- tient , POPE . 35.
... From this account , given with evi- dent intention to raise the Lady's cha- racter , it does not appear that he had any claim to praife , nor much to com- paffion . C 2 paffion . She feems to have been impa- tient , POPE . 35.
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Samuel Johnson. paffion . She feems to have been impa- tient , violent , and ungovernable . Her unkle's power could not have lafted long ; the hour of liberty and choice would have come in time . But her de- fires were too hot for delay ...
Samuel Johnson. paffion . She feems to have been impa- tient , violent , and ungovernable . Her unkle's power could not have lafted long ; the hour of liberty and choice would have come in time . But her de- fires were too hot for delay ...
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... paffion , and ventured fome of his money . The ftock rose in its price ; and he for a while thought himself the Lord of Thoufands . But this dream of happiness did not last long , and he seems to have waked foon enough to get clear with ...
... paffion , and ventured fome of his money . The ftock rose in its price ; and he for a while thought himself the Lord of Thoufands . But this dream of happiness did not last long , and he seems to have waked foon enough to get clear with ...
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... paffion , pre- tended that his moral character was in- jured , and for fome time declared his refolution to take vengeance with a cudgel . But Pope appeafed him , by changing pious paffion to cordial friend- Ship , and by a note , in ...
... paffion , pre- tended that his moral character was in- jured , and for fome time declared his refolution to take vengeance with a cudgel . But Pope appeafed him , by changing pious paffion to cordial friend- Ship , and by a note , in ...
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... paffion , thus innate and ir- refiftible , the existence may reasonably be doubted . Human characters are by no means conftant ; men change by change of place , of fortune , of acquain- tance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure ...
... paffion , thus innate and ir- refiftible , the existence may reasonably be doubted . Human characters are by no means conftant ; men change by change of place , of fortune , of acquain- tance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure ...
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Seite 347 - As Gay was the favourite of our author, this epitaph was probably written with an uncommon degree of attention ; yet it is not more successfully executed than the rest, for it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labour.
Seite 212 - 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.
Seite 256 - Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.
Seite 246 - 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.
Seite 76 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
Seite 315 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew 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...
Seite 255 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Seite 252 - ... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Seite 85 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Seite 252 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...