The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... person is depreciated ; but he feems to have known fomething of Pope's character , in whom may be difcovered an appetite to talk too frequently of his own vir- tues . B 4 The The pamphlet is fuch as rage might be expected to POPE . 23.
... person is depreciated ; but he feems to have known fomething of Pope's character , in whom may be difcovered an appetite to talk too frequently of his own vir- tues . B 4 The The pamphlet is fuch as rage might be expected to POPE . 23.
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... of which the immediate publication was then intended . In all this there was no hypocrify ; for he confeffed that he found in Addifon fomething more pleafing than in any other man . It It may be fuppofed , that as Pope faw himself 98 POPE .
... of which the immediate publication was then intended . In all this there was no hypocrify ; for he confeffed that he found in Addifon fomething more pleafing than in any other man . It It may be fuppofed , that as Pope faw himself 98 POPE .
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... rather tell " him , himself , fairly of his faults , " and allow his good qualities ; and " that it fhould be fomething in the 66 following manner : I then adjoined " the " the firft fketch of what has fince been " 108 POPE .
... rather tell " him , himself , fairly of his faults , " and allow his good qualities ; and " that it fhould be fomething in the 66 following manner : I then adjoined " the " the firft fketch of what has fince been " 108 POPE .
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... fomething of fraud in Pope , and commenced , or threatened , a fuit in Chancery . On the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence , at that time Pre- lector of Poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great , and ...
... fomething of fraud in Pope , and commenced , or threatened , a fuit in Chancery . On the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence , at that time Pre- lector of Poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great , and ...
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... fomething more studied and artificial in his productions than the reft , except one long Letter by Bolingbroke , compofed with all the fkill and induftry of a profeffed author . It is indeed not eafy to diftinguish af- fectation ...
... fomething more studied and artificial in his productions than the reft , except one long Letter by Bolingbroke , compofed with all the fkill and induftry of a profeffed author . It is indeed not eafy to diftinguish af- fectation ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...