Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... 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- rished , without showing a dead bough , for all the frosts of ...
... 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- rished , without showing a dead bough , for all the frosts of ...
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... thousand ; to which Lord Harley , the son of the Earl of Oxford , to whom he had invariably adhered , added an equal sum for the purchase of Down Hall , which Prior was to enjoy during life , and Harley after his decease . He had now ...
... thousand ; to which Lord Harley , the son of the Earl of Oxford , to whom he had invariably adhered , added an equal sum for the purchase of Down Hall , which Prior was to enjoy during life , and Harley after his decease . He had now ...
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... thousand pounds , the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended , at that time , by the imprudence of his ...
... thousand pounds , the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended , at that time , by the imprudence of his ...
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... disappointed by the sudden blast of Popish prosperity , quitted his trade , and retired to Binfield , in Windsor Forest , with about twenty thousand pounds , for } which , being conscientiously determined not to entrust it to POPE . 63.
... disappointed by the sudden blast of Popish prosperity , quitted his trade , and retired to Binfield , in Windsor Forest , with about twenty thousand pounds , for } which , being conscientiously determined not to entrust it to POPE . 63.
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... thousand copies as a numerous impression . Dennis was not his only censurer ; the zealous Papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erasmus too studiously praised ; but to these objections he had not much regard ...
... thousand copies as a numerous impression . Dennis was not his only censurer ; the zealous Papists thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erasmus too studiously praised ; but to these objections he had not much regard ...
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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