The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... performance , though not perfect , at least worthy of fome reward , and therefore offered him a benefit . This favour he improved with fo much diligence , that the houfe afforded him a confiderable fum , with which he went to Leyden ...
... performance , though not perfect , at least worthy of fome reward , and therefore offered him a benefit . This favour he improved with fo much diligence , that the houfe afforded him a confiderable fum , with which he went to Leyden ...
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... ingratitude , though to have dedicated any par- ticular performance to her memory would have only betrayed an officious partiality , that , with- C 2 out out exalting her character , would have depreffed his own SAVAGE . 19.
... ingratitude , though to have dedicated any par- ticular performance to her memory would have only betrayed an officious partiality , that , with- C 2 out out exalting her character , would have depreffed his own SAVAGE . 19.
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... paper , which he had picked up by acci- ` dent . If the performance of a writer thus diftreffed is not perfect , its faults ought furely to be imputed imputed to a caufe very different from want of genius 22 SAVAGE .
... paper , which he had picked up by acci- ` dent . If the performance of a writer thus diftreffed is not perfect , its faults ought furely to be imputed imputed to a caufe very different from want of genius 22 SAVAGE .
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... performance . He had indeed in Mr. Hill another critic of a very different clafs , from whofe friendship he received great affiftance on many occafions , and whom he never mentioned but with the utmost tenderness and regard . He had ...
... performance . He had indeed in Mr. Hill another critic of a very different clafs , from whofe friendship he received great affiftance on many occafions , and whom he never mentioned but with the utmost tenderness and regard . He had ...
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... performance he was more fuccefsful , for the rays of genius that glimmered in it , that glimmered through all the mifts which poverty and Cibber had been able to spread over it , procured him the notice See Savage's Works , vol . I. p ...
... performance he was more fuccefsful , for the rays of genius that glimmered in it , that glimmered through all the mifts which poverty and Cibber had been able to spread over it , procured him the notice See Savage's Works , vol . I. p ...
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Страница 33 - Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter, take in their turns possession of the mind. The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments.
Страница 27 - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
Страница 6 - ... his powers, and he was again able to talk with his former vigour. The approaches of this dreadful malady he began to feel soon after his uncle's death; and, with the usual weakness of men so diseased, eagerly snatched that temporary relief with which the table and the bottle flatter and seduce.
Страница 143 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Страница 33 - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects, bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter, take in their turns possession of the mind.
Страница 9 - At this time a long course of opposition to sir Robert Walpole had filled the nation with clamours for liberty, of which no man felt the want, and with care for liberty, which was not in danger.
Страница 34 - On Sunday, about eleven in the forenoon, his lordship sent for me, and said he felt a great hurry, and wished to have a little conversation with me, in order to divert it. He then proceeded to open the fountain of that heart, from whence goodness had so long flowed, as from a copious spring.
Страница 14 - Mr. Savage then imagined his task over, and expected that Sir Richard would call for the reckoning, and return home ; but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet...