Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 40
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentick narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentick narrative ...
Page 55
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
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... performance , written in the time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares , in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not less destructive than that by which Tyrtaeus of old animated ...
... performance , written in the time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares , in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not less destructive than that by which Tyrtaeus of old animated ...
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