Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... followed his inclination . To Prior , gratitude would dictate praise , which reason would not refuse . Among the advantages to arise from the future years of William's reign , he mentions a Society for Useful Arts , and among them ...
... followed his inclination . To Prior , gratitude would dictate praise , which reason would not refuse . Among the advantages to arise from the future years of William's reign , he mentions a Society for Useful Arts , and among them ...
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... followed him , and after his departure had the appointments and authority of an ambassador , though no public character . By some mistake of the queen's orders the court of France had been disgusted , and Bolingbroke says in his letter ...
... followed him , and after his departure had the appointments and authority of an ambassador , though no public character . By some mistake of the queen's orders the court of France had been disgusted , and Bolingbroke says in his letter ...
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... followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have been copying one another many hundred years without any improvement , or , if they ...
... followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have been copying one another many hundred years without any improvement , or , if they ...
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... followed his mistress into France , and who , being the author of Sir Solomon Single , a comedy , and some translations , was entitled to the notice of a wit , solicited Pope to endeavour a reconciliation by a ludicrous poem which might ...
... followed his mistress into France , and who , being the author of Sir Solomon Single , a comedy , and some translations , was entitled to the notice of a wit , solicited Pope to endeavour a reconciliation by a ludicrous poem which might ...
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... followed , and what chiefs command ( For doubtful fame distracts mankind below , And nothing can we tell , and nothing know ) , Without your aid , to count the unnumbered train , A thousand mouths , a thousand tongues , were vain . Book ...
... followed , and what chiefs command ( For doubtful fame distracts mankind below , And nothing can we tell , and nothing know ) , Without your aid , to count the unnumbered train , A thousand mouths , a thousand tongues , were vain . Book ...
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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