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Page 157
... considered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to distri- bute copiously as occasions arose . By these dissertations the publick judgement must have been much improved ; and Swift , who conversed with Dryden ...
... considered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to distri- bute copiously as occasions arose . By these dissertations the publick judgement must have been much improved ; and Swift , who conversed with Dryden ...
Page 244
... considered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ; and nothing is a very powerful protector . In the first part of the sentence it is taken negatively ; in the ...
... considered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ; and nothing is a very powerful protector . In the first part of the sentence it is taken negatively ; in the ...
Page 416
... considered as a trifle , but it is not a happy trifle . In the first stanza the azure flowers that blow , shew resolutely a rhyme is sometimes made when it cannot easily be found . Selima , the Cat , is called a nymph , with some ...
... considered as a trifle , but it is not a happy trifle . In the first stanza the azure flowers that blow , shew resolutely a rhyme is sometimes made when it cannot easily be found . Selima , the Cat , is called a nymph , with some ...
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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