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... versification equal to that of Pope . ' Horace Walpole said that Johnson had no more ear than taste . One of the most sympathetic of his modern biographers , John Bailey , remarks wryly that ' He was the last great English critic who ...
... versification equal to that of Pope . ' Horace Walpole said that Johnson had no more ear than taste . One of the most sympathetic of his modern biographers , John Bailey , remarks wryly that ' He was the last great English critic who ...
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... versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's preference . He therefore made rhyming tragedies , till , by the prevalence of manifest propriety , he seems to have grown ...
... versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's preference . He therefore made rhyming tragedies , till , by the prevalence of manifest propriety , he seems to have grown ...
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... versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me , merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing ...
... versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me , merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing ...
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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