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... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appropriated 70 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appropriated 70 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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... sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their ... sentiment , and more musick . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The ...
... sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their ... sentiment , and more musick . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The ...
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... sentiments , or impressing new appearances of things : sentences were readier at his call than images ; he could ... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ...
... sentiments , or impressing new appearances of things : sentences were readier at his call than images ; he could ... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ...
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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