English Men of Letters: Pope, by Leslie Stephen, 1900; Johnson by Leslie Stenphen, 1900; Gray, by Edmund Gosse, 1899Macmillan and Company, 1900 |
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... writers were treading in the steps of Boileau and Horace . Roscommon selected for a poem the lively topic of " trans- lated verse , " and Sheffield had written with Dryden an essay upon satire , and afterwards a more elaborate essay ...
... writers were treading in the steps of Boileau and Horace . Roscommon selected for a poem the lively topic of " trans- lated verse , " and Sheffield had written with Dryden an essay upon satire , and afterwards a more elaborate essay ...
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... writer on ethics to invent new laws of morality . We require neither Pope nor Aristotle to tell us that critics should not be pert nor prejudiced ; that fancy should be regulated by judgment ; that apparent facility comes by long ...
... writer on ethics to invent new laws of morality . We require neither Pope nor Aristotle to tell us that critics should not be pert nor prejudiced ; that fancy should be regulated by judgment ; that apparent facility comes by long ...
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... writing . His feelings make him eloquent , but they do not enable him to " snatch a grace beyond the reach of art , " to blind us for a moment to the presence of the consummate workman , judiciously blending his colours , heightening ...
... writing . His feelings make him eloquent , but they do not enable him to " snatch a grace beyond the reach of art , " to blind us for a moment to the presence of the consummate workman , judiciously blending his colours , heightening ...
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... writer of dreary tragedies which had gained a certain success by their Whiggish tendencies , and of ponderous disquisitions upon critical questions , not much cruder in substance though heavier in form than many utterances of Addison or ...
... writer of dreary tragedies which had gained a certain success by their Whiggish tendencies , and of ponderous disquisitions upon critical questions , not much cruder in substance though heavier in form than many utterances of Addison or ...
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... writing this note , that Pope was the author of the anonymous assault . If , as the biographers say , Addison's action was not kindly to Pope , it was bare justice to poor Dennis . Pope undoubt- edly must have been bitterly vexed at the ...
... writing this note , that Pope was the author of the anonymous assault . If , as the biographers say , Addison's action was not kindly to Pope , it was bare justice to poor Dennis . Pope undoubt- edly must have been bitterly vexed at the ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Addison admiration afterwards Ambrose Philips amusing antistrophe appeared became Bolingbroke Bonstetten Boswell Boswell's called Cambridge character companion criticism Curll death Dryden Dunciad edition Elegy English English poetry Eton feeling friendship Garrick genius give Goldsmith Gray Gray's happy Homer honour Horace Walpole kind Lady later less letters Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Lucy Porter Mason melancholy mind Miss months nature never Nicholls once passages Pembroke Pembroke College perhaps person Peterhouse phrase Pindar pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor Pope Pope's praise probably published Rambler received remark replied Johnson Reynolds Roger Long SAMUEL JOHNSON satire Savage says seems sense spirit stanza Stoke story Strawberry Hill Streatham style Swift talk tell Thomas Gray thought Thrale tion told took Twickenham vanity verses Wharton Whig whilst writing wrote young
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Página 60 - Peace to all such! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
Página 101 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 64 - Thy form benign, oh goddess, wear, Thy milder influence impart, Thy philosophic train be there To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive Teach me to love, and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are to feel, and know myself a Man.
Página 98 - Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!
Página 132 - Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear.
Página 46 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Página 179 - He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place.
Página 45 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Página 118 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Página 45 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.