Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the ...
... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the ...
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... supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers - perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden ...
... supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers - perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden ...
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... supposed they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from the ...
... supposed they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from the ...
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... caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so are popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 22 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so are popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 22 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten , and about the time of the Revolution sent him , at the age of sixteen , to study law in the ...
... supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten , and about the time of the Revolution sent him , at the age of sixteen , to study law in 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