Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has flou- rished , without showing a dead bough , for all the frosts of hostile criticism . H. M. LIVES OF THE ENGLISH ...
... appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has flou- rished , without showing a dead bough , for all the frosts of hostile criticism . H. M. LIVES OF THE ENGLISH ...
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... appears to have known the author either by conjecture or intelligence . The Tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war , and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former employment of making treaties , was sent ...
... appears to have known the author either by conjecture or intelligence . The Tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war , and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former employment of making treaties , was sent ...
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... appear ; he was by nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after committed to close custody , with orders that " no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace ...
... appear ; he was by nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after committed to close custody , with orders that " no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace ...
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... wants a plan because it is left imperfect ; 66 Alma " iş imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
... wants a plan because it is left imperfect ; 66 Alma " iş imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
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... appearing to have done everything by chance . The Old Bachelor was written for amusement in the languor of convalescence . Yet it is apparently composed with 1 great elaborateness of dialogue , and incessant ambition of wit 30 LIVES OF ...
... appearing to have done everything by chance . The Old Bachelor was written for amusement in the languor of convalescence . Yet it is apparently composed with 1 great elaborateness of dialogue , and incessant ambition of wit 30 LIVES OF ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English poets Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise present printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation RICHARD HAKLUYT ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey write written wrote