Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 90
... perhaps uncon- sciously , paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The King , with ...
... perhaps uncon- sciously , paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The King , with ...
Page 317
... perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius , translated ...
... perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius , translated ...
Page 332
... perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry . He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty . What was said of Rome , adorned by Augustus , may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry ...
... perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry . He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty . What was said of Rome , adorned by Augustus , may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry ...
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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