Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonC. Bathurst ... [and 35 others], 1781 - English poetry |
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... elegance of defcription and just- nefs of precepts , he had now exhibited bound- less fertility of invention . He always confidered the intertexture of the machinery with the action as his most fuccessful exertion of poetical art . He ...
... elegance of defcription and just- nefs of precepts , he had now exhibited bound- less fertility of invention . He always confidered the intertexture of the machinery with the action as his most fuccessful exertion of poetical art . He ...
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... elegance of lished verfions . po- Those literal tranflations were always at hand , and from them he could always ob- tain his author's fense with fufficient certain- ty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very small of those ...
... elegance of lished verfions . po- Those literal tranflations were always at hand , and from them he could always ob- tain his author's fense with fufficient certain- ty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very small of those ...
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... elegance of its last , will naturally defire a greater number ; but most other read- ers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets and philofophers . The Iliad was published volume by volume , as the translation proceeded ...
... elegance of its last , will naturally defire a greater number ; but most other read- ers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets and philofophers . The Iliad was published volume by volume , as the translation proceeded ...
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... elegance , which was afterwards reprinted , with fome paffages fubjoined that he at firft omitted ; other marginal additions of the fame kind he made in the later editions of his poems . Waller remarks , that poets lofe half their ...
... elegance , which was afterwards reprinted , with fome paffages fubjoined that he at firft omitted ; other marginal additions of the fame kind he made in the later editions of his poems . Waller remarks , that poets lofe half their ...
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... elegance the character which had been given of Shak- speare by Dryden ; and he drew the publick attention upon his works , which though of- ten mentioned , had been little read . Soon Soon after the appearance of the Iliad , re- folving ...
... elegance the character which had been given of Shak- speare by Dryden ; and he drew the publick attention upon his works , which though of- ten mentioned , had been little read . Soon Soon after the appearance of the Iliad , re- folving ...
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Addiſon addreffed afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer appear aſked becauſe beſt Bolingbroke cenfure character compofitions confidered criticiſm criticks defign defire diſcovered Dryden Dunciad eaſily Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph Eſſay fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fent fentiments fhall fhew firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friendſhip ftanzas ftudies fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficient fuppofed furely higheſt himſelf hiſtory honour houſe Iliad increaſe juſt kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs Letters Lord Lyttelton Mallet maſter mind moſt muſt never Night Thoughts numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion perfon perfuaded perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reader reaſon ſay ſcenes ſchool ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſtate ſtill ſtudy theſe thofe Thomſon thoſe thouſand tion tranflation univerfal unkle uſed verfe verfion verſes whofe whoſe wiſh write written Young
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Page 169 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who, before he became an author, had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Page 118 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 346 - The pleasure of Shenstone was all in his eye : he valued what he valued merely for its looks; nothing raised his indignation more than to ask if there were any fishes in his water* His house was mean, and he did not improve it; his care was of his grounds.
Page 222 - In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; ' *. Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 324 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Page 270 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in...
Page 483 - 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.
Page 183 - Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long; The rough road then, returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient steps, for all was fairy ground.
Page 170 - 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. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
Page 122 - For this reason this joint production of three great writers has never obtained any notice from mankind; it has been little read, or when read has been forgotten, as no man could be wiser, better, or merrier, by remembering it. The design cannot boast of much originality; for, besides its general resemblance to Don Quixote, there will be found in it particular imitations of the History of Mr.