Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , ' Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon Paradise Found ? ' Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill ...
... Paradise Lost , and , having perused it , said to him , ' Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon Paradise Found ? ' Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill ...
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... Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrours ...
... Paradise Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrours ...
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... Paradise of Fools ; a fiction not in itself ill - imagined , but too ludicrous for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often ; his ... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions 130 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... Paradise of Fools ; a fiction not in itself ill - imagined , but too ludicrous for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often ; his ... Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions 130 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passages passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote