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Page 49
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , how- ever justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , how- ever justly , under ...
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... common heroick of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when ...
... common heroick of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote