Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has flou ...
... fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope . " " Pope's laurel , since Johnson's days , has flou ...
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... fame of our counsellors and heroes was entrusted to the Gazetteer . The nation in time grew weary of the war , and the queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were insolent . Harley and his friends ...
... fame of our counsellors and heroes was entrusted to the Gazetteer . The nation in time grew weary of the war , and the queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome , and the ministers were insolent . Harley and his friends ...
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... fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for himself and his friends , and among his friends was able to name every man of his time whom wit and elegance had raised to ...
... fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for himself and his friends , and among his friends was able to name every man of his time whom wit and elegance had raised to ...
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... fame and fortune . Having owed his fortune to Halifax , he continued always of his patron's party , but , as it seems , without violence or acrimony , and his firmness was naturally esteemed , as his abilities were reverenced . His ...
... fame and fortune . Having owed his fortune to Halifax , he continued always of his patron's party , but , as it seems , without violence or acrimony , and his firmness was naturally esteemed , as his abilities were reverenced . His ...
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... fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he ...
... fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he ...
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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