The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... most of them to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is lefs exhilarating than the ludicrouf- nefs of Denham . He does not fail for want of efforts : he is familiar , he is grofs ; but he is never merry ...
... most of them to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is lefs exhilarating than the ludicrouf- nefs of Denham . He does not fail for want of efforts : he is familiar , he is grofs ; but he is never merry ...
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... most of the words , thus art- fully oppofed , are to be understood fim- ply on one fide of the comparison , and metaphorically on the other ; and if there there be any language which does not exprefs intellectual operations 18 DEN HA M.
... most of the words , thus art- fully oppofed , are to be understood fim- ply on one fide of the comparison , and metaphorically on the other ; and if there there be any language which does not exprefs intellectual operations 18 DEN HA M.
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... most beautiful parts of the ancient authors , may be discovered by a perufal of our earlier verfions ; fome of them the works of men well qua- lified not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a miftaken ...
... most beautiful parts of the ancient authors , may be discovered by a perufal of our earlier verfions ; fome of them the works of men well qua- lified not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a miftaken ...
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... , by following the fenfe ; and are for the most part as exact at leaft as thofe of other poets , though now and then the reader is . fhifted off with what he can get .. 4 " O how " O how transform'd ! " How much unlike that 28 DEN HA M.
... , by following the fenfe ; and are for the most part as exact at leaft as thofe of other poets , though now and then the reader is . fhifted off with what he can get .. 4 " O how " O how transform'd ! " How much unlike that 28 DEN HA M.
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... nor a thou- " fand fail . " He is not very careful to vary the ends of his verses : in one paffage the word die rhimes three couplets in fix . Most of these petty faults are in his first productions 2 Moft 30 DEN HA M.
... nor a thou- " fand fail . " He is not very careful to vary the ends of his verses : in one paffage the word die rhimes three couplets in fix . Most of these petty faults are in his first productions 2 Moft 30 DEN HA M.
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Страница 7 - read for its elegance, the philofopher for its arguments, and. the faint for its' piety. It were an injury to the reader.' to offer him an abridgement. , He died July 26, 1680, before he. had completed his thirty-third year ; and was fo worn away by a long illnefs, that life went out without a
Страница 12 - with a new appearance, and novelty is always grateful where it gives no pain. But the merit of fuch performances begins and ends with the firft author. He that Ihould again adapt Milton's phrafe to the grofs incidents of common life, and even adapt it with more art, which would not be difficult,
Страница 2 - where he was diftinguifhed by a lucky accident. It was his turn, one day, to pronounce a declamation ; and Dr. Hough, the prefident, happening to attend, thought the compofition too good to be the fpeaker's. Some time, after, the doctor, finding him a little irregularly bufy in the library, fet him an exercife for
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Страница 43 - friends, from whom I learned much of his life, appeared not to know it. He was now driven to London, where he affociated himfelf with the Whigs, whether becaufe they were in power, or becaufe the Tories had expelled him^ or becaufe he was a Whig by principle, may perhaps be doubted. He was
Страница 49 - an elegant .mixture of fondnefs and admiration, of dignity and foftnefs. There are fome paflages too ludicrous; but every human .performance has its faults. This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchafe for a guinea; .and, as his acquaintance was numerous, .it was a very profitable poem. Of his Pindar, mentioned by
Страница 51 - avocations, he was, in June 1710, invited by Mr. George Ducket to his .houfe at Gartham in Wiltfhire. Here he found fuch opportunities of indulgence as did not much forward his fludies, and particularly fome ftrong ale, too delicious to be refifted. He eat and .drank till he found himfelf plethorick : and then, refolving to
Страница 60 - hours, with companions fuch as are not often found ; with one who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life; with Dr. James, whofe fkill in phyfick will be long remembered; and with David Garrick,
Страница 7 - the articles were difmiffed by the lords. At the acceffion of queen Anne. he was difmiffed from the council; and in the. firft parliament of her reign was again attacked by the commons, and again efcaped by the protection of the lords. In 1704, he wrote an anfwer to Bromley's fpeech againft occafional