Prior. Congreve. Blackmore. Fenton. Gay. Granville. Yalden. Tickell. Hammond. Somervile. Savage. Swift. Broome. Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonSamuel Etheridge, jun'r., 1810 - English poetry |
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... writing an- swers different from those which they received . Prior , how- ever , seems to have been overpowered by their ... write his attestation on the wrong side of the paper . They were very industrious to find some charge against Ox ...
... writing an- swers different from those which they received . Prior , how- ever , seems to have been overpowered by their ... write his attestation on the wrong side of the paper . They were very industrious to find some charge against Ox ...
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... write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mythological . Venus , after the example of the Greek epigram , asks when she was seen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ...
... write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mythological . Venus , after the example of the Greek epigram , asks when she was seen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ...
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... write ; and of the Carmen Seculare , I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice , without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work ...
... write ; and of the Carmen Seculare , I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice , without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work ...
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... write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of com- prehension , or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of ...
... write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of com- prehension , or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of ...
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... writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for ... writes to his patron the lord Halifax a dedication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few ...
... writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for ... writes to his patron the lord Halifax a dedication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few ...
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Page 289 - If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 312 - To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, Here lies the friend most loved, the son most dear; Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Page 439 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Page 314 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Page 122 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
Page 29 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 279 - Age," and are now the friendships only of children. Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves, and of which, by whatever accident exposed, they do not shun a distinct and continued view ; and certainly, what we hide from h 3 ourselves we do not shew to our friends.
Page 259 - ... you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done, and could not. It is indeed the same system as mine, but illustrated with a ray of your own, as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified.
Page 289 - 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 203 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.