Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham, Band 11854 |
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... whole truth . " Yet he observed on another occasion , and to Boswell , that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking , when it was seen that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . " Indeed he ...
... whole truth . " Yet he observed on another occasion , and to Boswell , that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking , when it was seen that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . " Indeed he ...
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... whole work he acknowledges that in the minute kind of history , so constantly requisite in biographical writing , the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and that " longer premeditation " might have added to his materials ...
... whole work he acknowledges that in the minute kind of history , so constantly requisite in biographical writing , the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and that " longer premeditation " might have added to his materials ...
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... whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric , and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances . Let me EDITOR'S PREFACE . XV remember , ' says Hale , xiv EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric , and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances . Let me EDITOR'S PREFACE . XV remember , ' says Hale , xiv EDITOR'S PREFACE .
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... whole Life at four sittings , for the original edition , to which he referred , is contained in one hundred and eighty pages . The Life of Pope , ' for the facts it contains - facts first found in Johnson - is certainly the most ...
... whole Life at four sittings , for the original edition , to which he referred , is contained in one hundred and eighty pages . The Life of Pope , ' for the facts it contains - facts first found in Johnson - is certainly the most ...
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... whole of his biography ; for notwithstanding his many virtues and great goodness of heart , his resentment too frequently subsided with a lasting sediment . The occasion of his dislike to Lyttelton is unknown - for Mrs. Piozzi's ...
... whole of his biography ; for notwithstanding his many virtues and great goodness of heart , his resentment too frequently subsided with a lasting sediment . The occasion of his dislike to Lyttelton is unknown - for Mrs. Piozzi's ...
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Seite 341 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 76 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Seite 143 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy ; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Seite 164 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite xvi - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one...
Seite 379 - Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy.
Seite 23 - To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables.
Seite 90 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 63 - ... reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Seite 120 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, being written by whatever hand came next, might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing...