Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 111
... pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his ...
... pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his ...
Page 190
... pleasing to dis- cover that his piety was without weakness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions of ...
... pleasing to dis- cover that his piety was without weakness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions of ...
Page 448
... pleasing the Author of his being . Truth is shewn some- times as the phantom of a vision , sometimes appears half - veiled in an allegory ; sometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy , and sometimes steps forth in the confi- dence ...
... pleasing the Author of his being . Truth is shewn some- times as the phantom of a vision , sometimes appears half - veiled in an allegory ; sometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy , and sometimes steps forth in the confi- dence ...
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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