Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... 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 was passed , he ...
... 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 was passed , he ...
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... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about PRIOR . 1277 PRIOR ...
... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about PRIOR . 1277 PRIOR ...
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... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen the pedant has found his ...
... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen the pedant has found his ...
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... natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified ...
... natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified ...
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... nature . The characters , both of men and women , are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and ... natural , but he is very pleasant . With this play was opened the New Theatre , under the direction of Betterton , the ...
... nature . The characters , both of men and women , are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and ... natural , but he is very pleasant . With this play was opened the New Theatre , under the direction of Betterton , the ...
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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