Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... writing these " Lives of the English Poets , " he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester , and was asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes ...
... writing these " Lives of the English Poets , " he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester , and was asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes ...
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... writer had taken of his mind , and from the pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there ...
... writer had taken of his mind , and from the pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there ...
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... of men elated by recent authority . They are represented as asking questions sometimes vague , sometimes insidious , and writing answers different from those which they 66 received . Prior , however , seems to have 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... of men elated by recent authority . They are represented as asking questions sometimes vague , sometimes insidious , and writing answers different from those which they 66 received . Prior , however , seems to have 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... write his attestation on the wrong side of the paper . They were very industrious to find some charge against Oxford , and asked Prior , with great earnestness , who was present when the preliminary articles were talked of or signed at ...
... write his attestation on the wrong side of the paper . They were very industrious to find some charge against Oxford , and asked Prior , with great earnestness , who was present when the preliminary articles were talked of or signed at ...
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... writing his " Alma . " He was , however , soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing else . Whatever the profit of his employments might have been , he had always spent it ; and at the age of fifty - three was ...
... writing his " Alma . " He was , however , soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing else . Whatever the profit of his employments might have been , he had always spent it ; and at the age of fifty - three was ...
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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