prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets1781 |
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... tion were ready at his hand to colour and embellifh it . His attempt was juftified by its fuc cefs . The Rape of the Lock ftands for ward , in the claffes of literature , as the moft exquifite example of ludicrous . poetry . Berkley ...
... tion were ready at his hand to colour and embellifh it . His attempt was juftified by its fuc cefs . The Rape of the Lock ftands for ward , in the claffes of literature , as the moft exquifite example of ludicrous . poetry . Berkley ...
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... tion of artifice , criticism , and literature , to which nothing equal will eafily be found . The fuperiority of Pope is fo ingeniously diffembled , and the feeble lines of Phillips fo fkilfully preferred , that Steele , being deceived ...
... tion of artifice , criticism , and literature , to which nothing equal will eafily be found . The fuperiority of Pope is fo ingeniously diffembled , and the feeble lines of Phillips fo fkilfully preferred , that Steele , being deceived ...
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... tion which , by making his friend Phil- lips ridiculous , made him for ever an enemy to Pope . It appears that about this time Pope had a strong inclination to unite the art of Painting with that of Poetry , and put himfelf under the ...
... tion which , by making his friend Phil- lips ridiculous , made him for ever an enemy to Pope . It appears that about this time Pope had a strong inclination to unite the art of Painting with that of Poetry , and put himfelf under the ...
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... tion of the literary world , naturally raifed fuch expectations of the future fale , that the bookfellers made their offers with great cagernefs ; but the highest bidder was Bernard Lintet , who became proprietor on condition of fup ...
... tion of the literary world , naturally raifed fuch expectations of the future fale , that the bookfellers made their offers with great cagernefs ; but the highest bidder was Bernard Lintet , who became proprietor on condition of fup ...
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... tion of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be coun teracted by an edition equally cheap and more commodious ; and Lintot was compelled to contract his Folio at once into a ...
... tion of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be coun teracted by an edition equally cheap and more commodious ; and Lintot was compelled to contract his Folio at once into a ...
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Page 268 - 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.
Page 329 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 110 - Here he planted the vines and the quincunx which his verses mention; and being under the necessity of making a subterraneous passage to a garden on the other side of the road, he adorned it with fossile bodies, and dignified it with the title of a grotto; a place of silence and retreat, from which he endeavoured to persuade his friends and himself that cares and passions could be excluded.
Page 268 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Page 269 - What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion, was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.
Page 262 - He professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden, whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised through his whole life with unvaried liberality; and perhaps his character may receive some illustration, if he be compared with his master.
Page 264 - ... 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.
Page 222 - 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.
Page 267 - Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope. * Poetry was not the...
Page 9 - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his Ode on Solitude...