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... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With ...
... verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With ...
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... verse , a headlong verse , and a verse of brass or of strong brass , seem to comprise very incongruous and unsociable ... verses left imperfect by the author , in imitation of Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete ...
... verse , a headlong verse , and a verse of brass or of strong brass , seem to comprise very incongruous and unsociable ... verses left imperfect by the author , in imitation of Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete ...
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... verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq , is to deliver to me Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther ...
... verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq , is to deliver to me Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther ...
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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